CNN runs a piece celebrating a kid who was accepted to 185 different colleges after he announces he's chosen CORNELL!!!!

So to be clear... you are saying that these schools are responsible for all these centi-millionaires and billionaires? Meaning, the education these folks received is responsible for it?

Now do per capita and compare it to the better Ivies

Please full stop at CNN.

His name is Dennis "Maliq" Barnes and this stunt got him in the news throughout the country, so he has already made a name for himself, which sounds pretty smart to me.

Who would have guessed. Asians and whites are the only groups discriminated against today

It’s not your race that kept you out of these schools. The fact that you only make the same 5 posts over and over and over show that you weren’t up to snuff.

Would this have happened if he were White, let alone Asian?

So were Faraday, Newton, Euler, Heisenberg, Goedel, and many other of the most distinguished scientists who ever lived.

This is irrelevant. You lack the intellectual chops to hack it in college anywhere, although you could probably fake your way through Liberty with that racist vibe.

Okay, this was funny. Well played.

"Plus LRC co-founder Robert Johnson spent 10 years of his life coaching at Cornell so he want to emphasize his choice."

Unfortunately race is not irrelevant when it comes to college admissions and they're pretty open about that

Says the guy doing block starts for 800m. It wasn’t your ethnicity that held you back son.

You resort to personal attacks because you know I am factually correct.

If you read the article you posted (you didn’t) his goal was to show people on his tik tok how to apply to college and to reach 10mil in total scholarships so he can be in the guinness book of world stupid records. So his motovation was to be internet famous.

Suppose an applicant for undergraduate education wants to study nursing. Which would be among "the better Ivies" (your parlance) for that applicant? I would argue that Penn is not only among them, but the best. I think it is now the only Ivy offering a BS in nursing. Columbia and Cornell many decades ago offered BS degrees in nursing but stopped offering them. Penn is usually not ranked by US News & World Report - whose rankings are now tarnished if not disgraced after the Columbia debacle - among what you describe as "the better Ivies" - Harvard, Princeton, and Yale usually slot into that tier - but Penn is almost certainly, and by default, the best Ivy for someone wanting a BS in nursing.

Suppose an applicant for undergraduate education wants to study architecture. Which would be among "the better Ivies" for that applicant? I would argue that Cornell is not only among them, but the best. Cornell's undergraduate architecture program is often the best ranked undergraduate architecture, Ivy or non-Ivy, program in the USA.

What about the student featured in the CNN report which is the subject of this thread? He was clear that he wanted Cornell "because the university [Cornell] is the 'best Ivy League for engineering'.” Cornell is usually not ranked by US News & World Report among what you describe as one of "the better Ivies." But for this student, Cornell may be the best Ivy as it is often thought to have the best engineering school among them.

How about someone wanting to study medicine, dentistry, law, or to get an MBA? Princeton, for such an applicant, though usually ranked by US News & World Report among what you describe as "the better Ivies," is the least among them as it has no medical school, no dental school, no law school, and no graduate school of business.

How about someone wanting to study veterinary medicine? Cornell is the only Ivy with a vet school, and it is usually ranked first or second in the USA. Yet, according to you, Cornell is not one of "the better Ivies." Well.

I think there is often too little emphasis on school offerings. A student can get an undergraduate degree in Materials Science & Engineering at Brown, Columbia and Cornell but at Princeton there is no such undergraduate major: a Princeton undergraduate could get a certificate in Materials Science & Engineering at Princeton, but not a degree solely in the latter. (I hope I'm not seen as attacking Princeton University. I worked on a contract in Princeton about nine years ago and loved the town. And I have fond memories of racing as a high schooler and after college on the track in Princeton University's Jadwin Gymnasium.)

Anyway, I wanted to provide specifics even if at the expense of belaboring the point, though I could have furnished additional examples. But I think the case is made that it is possible for the Ivy League schools not named "Harvard," "Princeton," or "Yale" to be among the better Ivies, to be the best Ivy, or even the best school in the world, for some students with particular aims.

184 safety schools + Cornell?

Got a name for himself in a negative way. Let’s see how well he does in Cornell after all this. We know why he got accepted.
Being a loser by applying to 185 schools speaks loudly about his narcissistic character.