Advice: UPenn or Cornell

handscoring
Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:19:10 +0000

Well, I can’t argue against that^^, cause I don’t live in the west coast. But they are all things considered both good schools. My only advice is, visit both campuses, see which one you like better. Cornell has a kickass almost resort style campus (meaning secluded, but naturally beautiful), while Penn is a more urban and down to earth sort of place (as fitting to its pragmatic nature). But like I said, definitely pick upenn for wharton, or cornell for engineering. Other than that, they are all thngs considered pretty even. Don’t let the admissions rates blind you: the only reason cornell’s is so high is because of the publicly endowed colleges (i.e agricultural and life science). The arts and science acceptance rate was 21% last year, and without wharton, what is penn’s arts and science acceptance? around 20% would be my guess. Personally, I’d rather choose cornell for arts and science because I live much closer to its campus, and I sort of like its secluded, surrealistic style. And reputation-wise, here in Canada, penn and cornell are just about equal, only that Cornell is a bit more heard of because it’s closer to the border.