<p>For those of you who have been to both campuses, which is the less isolated of the two? Obviously, Ithaca is kind of a fun town, but I live an hour away from it, so the allure of ‘scenic upstate new york’ doesn’t do much for me and I’d feel like there would be nothing to do at cornell… is dartmouth the same way? What’s the town of Hanover like? I’ve really started to like Dartmouth over the past few weeks, but I just worry that I’d feel left out because I’m not very outdoorsy, although by no means am I a city person. Do you think people similar to me would still get along well enough at Dartmouth?</p>
<p>hey jmarsh - as someone whose first choice was Dartmouth but ended up at Tufts, I now wonder how well I really would have done in Hanover. Besides being able to take advantage of Boston whenever I want, especially since my friends and I aren’t hardcore drinkers, there are other minor things that concerned me: for example, when we needed to buy black clothes for our choir concert, we got on a bus, went to the mall, got our things and came right back to campus. I realized that this would have been much, much harder in Dartmouth.</p>
<p>NOTE: I AM NOT HATIN’ ON DARTMOUTH. Y’ALL KNOW I STILL LOVE THE PLACE :-D</p>
<p>Hanover cannot compete with Boston in urban attractions, but if you need clothes in a hurry, there is a big mall in West Lebanon, which is just a 15-minute bus ride away. The bus might even be free.</p>
<p>Hey guys! Thanks for your advice so far. I’ll admit that my first choice is still Tufts, simply because of the location, but I want to keep my options open and apply somewhere more “homey” for lack of a better word, just in case I somehow have a different perspective on life this April. And besides, there’s no guarentee that I’ll even get into dartmouth. It must be all the allure of Dr. Seuss lol</p>
<p>bluirinka… are you still planning on tranferring out of tufts? If so, they’d lose one of their most ardent spokespersons lol</p>
<p>to get back to your Dartmouth/Cornell question:</p>
<p>I visited both. Cornell is bigger or at least when you visit it feels that way. Cornell’s college area is great. Good restaurants and there’s “college town.” FINDING Cornell was a different story. We drove to Ithaca (which is NOT close to ANYTHING) and stayed in some random hotel near the college. We were driving around for about 20 minutes searching for the school when my dad said, “Where are they hiding 20,000 students!?!?”</p>
<p>Dartmouth doesn’t seem as isolated. I’m biased toward it though. Maybe you shouldn’t trust me…</p>