Cornellians help an admitted student

oldfort
Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:05:40 +0000

First of all, congratulations on your excellent options. You will get excellent education at any of those schools. Dartmouth has more “prestige” if you want to use ranking, but at a large U like Cornell you’ll have more options for research and take courses outside of your major. There are 7 different schools at Cornell. Dartmouth is more of a LAC. If a smaller school is what you are looking for then Dartmouth probably would be a better fit. Both of my kids, coming from a small private school, wanted to stay away from anything small. Cornell is probably very similar to Dartmouth (location, A&S), except it is bigger. I have very close relatives who went to Dartmouth, JHU and Cornell. They all loved their experience at those schools and they are all doing very well.