Dartmouth & Cornell

Colm
Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:46:25 +0000

YeloPen:

Cornell and Dartmouth are both great schools, I don’t think you can go wrong at either one. There are some major differences, though. Cornell is a HUGE school; it’s around 20k students and that puts it closer to a public school setting than a private school.



Not really. While Cornell falls in the upper tier of medium sized, it is nevertheless not “huge” compared to the largest U.S. universities – not even close. Note the undergraduate student population stats listed below:

Largest US Universities by Undergrad Population Fall 2008

Ranking University Location Enrollment

1 University of Central Florida FL 42,933
2 University of Texas at Austin TX 39,000
3 Arizona State University AZ 38,627
4 Ohio State University OH 38,479
5 Texas A&M University TX 38,430
6 Pennsylvania State University PA 37,988
7 University of Florida FL 35,528
8 Michigan State University MI 34,853
9 Purdue University IN 32,377
10 Florida State University FL 31,508

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New York University NY 21,638
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Boston University MA 18,534
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University of Southern Cal CA 16,384
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Cornell University NY 13,931