<p>Which should i choose? Amherst would be about 10k a year cheaper to attend than Cornell, but I really liked Cornell.</p>
<p>10 k isn’t that much, so if you’d like, attend Cornell. HOWEVER, Amherst is a better feeder into top universities (unless you’re doing engineering).</p>
<p>I’m doing biology, and I want to get my phd, so I like how Amherst would give me better odds at getting into good graduate schools. But do is there really a difference at how easily you’d be accepted to graduate programs from Cornell vs Amherst?</p>
<p>You might want to ask some biology graduate departments if it matters.</p>
<p>Note the difference in class formats and sizes, as can be checked to some extent in the class schedules. You will see the typical LAC vs. RU tradeoff here – small faculty led classes at the LAC versus the big faculty led lecture with graduate student led discussions at the RU, but with a much bigger list of advanced course offerings at the RU. However, Amherst does have cross registration with a nearby RU (UMass - Amherst) so that if you run out of courses to take at Amherst, you can use the cross registration to take more.</p>
<p>Due to the popularity of biology at many colleges, and the popularity of doing pre-med at many colleges, do not be too surprised if the introductory biology and chemistry courses are among the larger ones at any given school.</p>
<p>Amherst is the one of the best LAC’s. Cornell for engineering. I vote for Amherst.</p>
<p>Okay for bio, you’ll probably get to work with smart grads + have a better lab because cornell is a research university. HOWEVER, at Amherst you will have more opportunities for research because professors MUST take undergrads for research (no grads). As for the feeder rankings, it’s probably not that big. This is outdated, so use with caution : <a href=“http://www.inpathways.net/top50feeder.pdf[/url]”>InPathWays - Discover latest hot new trending topic, insights, analysis;