While many Cornell applicants are put on a waitlist — supposedly with a chance of eventually getting accepted — the University accepted not one of the students offered a place on last year's list. This shocking statistic, in line with other elite schools, is unlikely to change for the Class of 2016, argues The Wall Street Journal.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University released a study on greenhouse gas emissions produced from hydraulic fracturing, which challenges a similar study published by Cornell.