What??!?!!? Cornell is practically a state school?? Are you kidding me? Cornell has, I believe, two "colleges" that New York partially funds. This has nothing to do with the acceptance rates into Cornell. Cornell also doesn't have lower academic standards. You are clearly misinformed for suggesting Cornell's dominance on such things.
All this crap that everyone is talking about excuses to "why Cornell?" are ridiculous! The reason is plain an simple:
Cornell has a better program. Cornell has better coaches. Cornell has better athletes. Thats why they won HEPS. END OF STORY. The Cornell coaches know how to coach their athletes, the athletes respond exceptionally well to ROJO and Taylor's training, thats why they cleaned up at Heps.
This junk about Cornell using questionable tactics to win races is also insane. When you are running on a track at top speeds and 6-8 people all cut in at once, people can easily fall! Nobody was trying to take anyone out, there was no conspiracy. Someone got tangled up on the cut in and they went down. Stop your wining about that.
If anyone wants to complain about Seabrook's elbow, they should watch the 400 trials where the same Princeton guy threw Goggins back out of the pack with an elbow. He tried the same thing on Seabrook, and Seabrook threw him off.