FWIW, I just remembered another old thread where a Cornell student had been getting antsy there and was accepted for transfer to Columbia SEAS. After inverstigation she decided to stay at Cornell.
Here is her post: about her decision
“Speaking as an accepted transfer to SEAS from Cornell Engineering, I was actually told by one of the SEAS advisors, who also happens to be a professor there, that SEAS is more geared towards grad school. I know this may sound repetitive, but Cornell does seem more engineering oriented than SEAS according to what I’ve learned from students and professors at both SEAS and Cornell.
I was in kinda a similar situation as you’re in right now, deciding b/w SEAS and Cornell. And I actually ended up staying w/ Cornell. My decision fell on my old school b/c I realized how much I’ve enjoyed doing pure engineering and taking on challenges at the last minute (aside from some transfer credit issues I was having w/ SEAS).
So that’s my two cents. Just a reminder, no matter whichever one you decide on in the end, make sure you know what you want to get out of the school.”
Her field was Chemical Engineering,.
This was on a thread where someone who wanted to do premed was accepted to both Cornell and SEAS. He chose Columbia.