seven formal proposals were submitted. they were the amity university bid for governors island; the joint carnegie mellon university and steiner studios bid for brooklyn navy yard; the columbia university bid for manhattanville; the joint cornell university and technion–israel institute of technology bid for roosevelt island; the six-way bid of new york university, university of toronto, university of warwick, indian institute of technology bombay, city university of new york, and carnegie mellon in downtown brooklyn; the four-way bid for new york genome center, mount sinai school of medicine, rockefeller university, and state university of new york at stony brook in midtown manhattan; and the joint bid for stanford university and city college of new york at roosevelt island. stanford university and massachusetts institute of technology were favored to win the competition, and when mit dropped out, stanford, which had partnered with the city college of new york, became the favorite. cornell and technion's joint proposal, combining technion's reputation as the "mit of israel" and cornell's presence in new york state and its land grant economic development mission, was developed in secret, in a meeting in beijing and another three day meeting at the cornell club in new york city, and it was made public on october 18, 10 days before the submission deadline. the new york city economic development corporation awarded the project to the cornell/technion bid in december 2011, after stanford pulled out of negotiations.