Ithaca Is: Stressful, Unhappy, Tech Savvy, Best City for Recent Grads
Our friends over at the Stanford Review have a post on The Daily Beast’s college rankings, which recently ranked Stanford as the #7 happiest college in America. No big deal there, but a couple of months before they also deemed Stanford as the #1 most stressful college in America! I’ve already poked fun at their most recent edition of college rankings, but let’s if we can find the same kind of inconsistencies about Cornell in the cross-sectional data:
100 Happiest Colleges
Cornell Ranking: #60
Notable Over/Under Rankings: MIT ranks 49 spots ahead at #11.
50 Most Stressful Colleges
Cornell Ranking: #17
Notable Over/Under Rankings: Harvard (5) and Dartmouth (14) are more stressful than Cornell!? Also, how does Cornell rank #44 in the crime category while NYU is #39?
Best Cities for College Grads
Cornell Ranking: #1
Notable Over/Under Rankings: Nobody’s better than us in this category. But seriously, New York (9), Washington (7), and Los Angeles (21)?
Top 29 Schools Producing Tech Leaders
Cornell Ranking: #11
Notable Over/Under Rankings: Dartmouth is really #1?
So there aren’t any glaring incongruences when it comes to Cornell, but it is a bit odd that Ithaca is the #1 place to live for recent graduates while Cornell ranks #60 on the list of happiest colleges. But a quick scan through the other rankings reveals larger oddities. Harvard ranks #5 in terms of stress but is the #2 happiest college in the country. Caltech is #9 most stressful and #8 happiest. Strange stuff.
