Reason for choosing Cornell

juxtaposn
Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:25:06 +0000

I applied (and was accepted) to three schools: SUNY Geneseo, the University of Rochester, and Cornell. Out of those three, Cornell offered me:


the best financial aid package (very important)
the most opportunities to get my name in print, by way of the Daily Sun and other campus publications (very important)
the most beautiful campus (very important, albeit superficial)
the greatest variety of extracurricular organizations (important)
the best food (important)


I didn’t really like Geneseo at all; I just applied there in case I couldn’t afford the other two. Rochester was nice, but its two biggest strengths – an open curriculum and a cooler surrounding area than Ithaca – weren’t enough to outweigh Cornell’s.