Ask anybody who has been to an ivy league school. It's hard to get into because there are so few slots available for non righ, non famous, non legacy students but once you are in it's dead easy to graduate. If you go to some of your classes, do some of your homework, and don't spend all of your time stoned you are pretty much guaranteed to graduate. These schools bend over backwards to make sure they have an extremely high graduation rate.
As a non-legacy Cornell ECE student, I agree with the first sentence, but not the rest. As a Cornell Engineering student if you go to only some of the classes, and only do some of the homework, I say good luck graduating in 4 years (or at all).
I'm sick of sweeping generalizations that at all Ivys, once you get in you are taken care of for life. Although their is excellent academic support in Cornell Engineering, noone holds your hand. If you fail a class (C- or worse), the professor won't budge. There is little to no grade inflation, as in most classes about 1/3 to 1/4 of the students gets C's.
Also, if you only scape by with C's (2.0 GPA) good luck getting a good job. I have plenty of friends who have had difficulty getting a good job with 3.0-3.5 GPAs. I'm no expert, but I believe this is mostly because of the economic downturn some tech sectors are in. I also believe a lot of the reason is because the perceieved Ivy-wide grade inflation automatically counts against us.
Engineering professors don't care if you had a bad day on your final, the only thing that matters is if you know the material and can show it on a test or in the lab. In my computer architecture and organization class, if your pipelined processor didn't pass the boot code by the deadline, you failed the class.
Of course, this doesn't apply to all majors. But I'm not going to make any more sweeping generalizations. Like I said, I'm sick of them.
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Ask anybody who has been to an ivy league school. It's hard to get into because there are so few slots available for non righ, non famous, non legacy students but once you are in it's dead easy to graduate. If you go to some of your classes, do some of your homework, and don't spend all of your time stoned you are pretty much guaranteed to graduate. These schools bend over backwards to make sure they have an extremely high graduation rate.
As a non-legacy Cornell ECE student, I agree with the first sentence, but not the rest. As a Cornell Engineering student if you go to only some of the classes, and only do some of the homework, I say good luck graduating in 4 years (or at all).
I'm sick of sweeping generalizations that at all Ivys, once you get in you are taken care of for life. Although their is excellent academic support in Cornell Engineering, noone holds your hand. If you fail a class (C- or worse), the professor won't budge. There is little to no grade inflation, as in most classes about 1/3 to 1/4 of the students gets C's.
Also, if you only scape by with C's (2.0 GPA) good luck getting a good job. I have plenty of friends who have had difficulty getting a good job with 3.0-3.5 GPAs. I'm no expert, but I believe this is mostly because of the economic downturn some tech sectors are in. I also believe a lot of the reason is because the perceieved Ivy-wide grade inflation automatically counts against us.
Engineering professors don't care if you had a bad day on your final, the only thing that matters is if you know the material and can show it on a test or in the lab. In my computer architecture and organization class, if your pipelined processor didn't pass the boot code by the deadline, you failed the class.
Of course, this doesn't apply to all majors. But I'm not going to make any more sweeping generalizations. Like I said, I'm sick of them.