Cornell vs Claremont McKenna

monydad
Sat, 03 May 2014 16:55:26 +0000

The most distiguishing feature of Cornell, to me, is brought about by the confluence of its seven distinct undergraduate colleges. Together they create tremendous diversity, in terms of the breadth of types of people who are attending and the humongously broad range of course offerings. And energy. But they also create synergy, when offerings in the various colleges expand upon what is available within and around a particular discipline. And even at times a useful redundancy, with some similar courses different in nuanced ways, which you may variously prefer.

For example, for someone interested in economics and finance, at Cornell your vistas are not limited to the College of Arts & Sciences. The Dyson school in CALS is highly-ranked among undergraduate business programs,
CHE offers studies in consumer economics. ILR offers studies in labor economics. The Hotel school offers finance related courses and studies in real estate development. The engineering school offers operations research, a branch of which is essentially mathematics applied to business problems.

The presence of the graduate school, and the graduate business school, on campus means there will be frequent activites and lectures in the field,at advanced levels.

You will meet people from all over the country, and the world.

As an alumnus the university offers many alumni activities, lectures, etc. There’s been an alumni club every place I’ve lived. The university, and its academic reputation, is well known. I jokingly say that a fringe benefit is that people who don’t really kow me well presume that I am smart.

It’s an academicaly demanding school, no question. And the weather is not always pleasant. But there is so much to learn and become there, and it’s beautiful. Also life in a college town is a unique experience, that I personally loved There are over 30,000 people there who are between the ages of 18 and 30.

It’s not perfect, but there are those who love it.
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