Best Ivy for the undecided

Marian
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:55:33 +0000

Cornell is the opposite of Brown in that the majority of its students are in professional rather than liberal arts majors, and even in the liberal arts college, the two most popular majors are biology and economics, reflecting the heavy career orientation of the student body.

Most Cornell students seem to have already decided on what they want (even though they may change their minds once they get there). I’m not sure if it’s a good place for the truly undecided. Within the College of Arts and Sciences (my daughter is a student there), advising is basically nonexistent unless the student seeks it out. During her entire freshman year, my daughter met her faculty advisor exactly once. Kids don’t even need their advisor’s signature to register for courses. My daughter, who knew what she wanted to major in before she arrived, likes things this way. Yours might not.