<p>geez, you high schoolers dont realize how negligible differences are when you get to the top. Harvard certainly has the edge name wise, but not by a runaway margin. Harvard does have research, but they also have a multitude of grad students who do the research. Cornell has an undergraduate population that is about 3 times the size of harvard’s, but Cornell also has an undergraduate population that significantly smaller than its graduate population. There is a big focus on undergraduate research at Cornell, and even at the president’s innaguration address, the notion of requiring some type of undergrad research study before they graduate is being considered. </p>
<p>“but you’ll most likely be worse off than had you chose Harvard”
Harvard doesn’t have my major. I’d be way worse off at Harvard. Also, there’s a very particular social scene at harvard, so any major would be ‘worse off’ at harvard if they didn’t find their nichce and harvard turned out to be a bad experience. </p>
<p>To say harvard far surpasses Cornell in academics is like saying “$50 billion is far greater than $48 billion - there’s $2 billion in between them and that is a huge amount of money.”</p>