Cornell or Dartmouth?

Colene
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:57:17 +0000

Business - here (3rd best program in country)
Banking - there (they’re quite proud of it, or so i heard). Probably because so many people are doing it over there and you have more connections. Quite great here too, but it’s probably marginally better there.

financial aid being same, depends on the field. Cornell is good at art, engineering, business, sciences, psych, math, hotel (yes really). Other things -> might want to look into dartmouth. Heard they have a great neurobio program, great at connections for econ majors, and great at humanities.

if you are undecided, Cornell CAS is a must. Cornell is strong in the humanities too, and cornell CAS is very well rounded - it gives you many options to switch into. Cornell is probably better for research as well. As for social life, maybe there is better but cornell definitely has a vibrant party scene if you are into that. If you want a really close knit environment, maybe dartmouth is better for that - but Cornell definitely gets “smaller” once you find a group of people that you identify with. I honestly don’t feel that it’s big here at all anymore.

For medicine, it’s your choice. I would prefer dartmouth for that but Cornell seems to place very well for med schools (>80% for >=3.6 gpa i believe).