<p>you guys who are just saying Dartmouth, what are your reasons?</p>
<p>thanks again for your insight, slipper.</p>
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<p>Honestly, I would appeal Cornell. This man Slipper ain’t so honest. I appealed Cornell after receiving $5,000/year less than from Upenn and Columbia and they gave me $5,000/year more than Penn and Columbia. Appealing is worth it if you want to pay less money to go to college. Cornell will at least match your offer, you have nothing to lose.</p>
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<p>Haha…thanks again for your ■■■■■■■■, slipper. </p>
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<p>Almost all of them went there. Naturally, they have a self-inflated view of the school.</p>
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<p>Please tell me this is a joke…</p>
<p>If Cornell doesn’t give you more money then go to Amherst or Dartmouth… otherwise don’t let Slipper’s Cornell ■■■■■■■■ get you down.</p>
<p>Dartmouth and Amherst are very similar in student body quality and would choose whichever one you feel more comfortable at. Cornell is probably stronger in most sciences than Dartmouth and CAS isn’t very far behind, so would maybe consider it if that’s your route. I would personally pick Dartmouth, followed by Cornell as Amherst was just too small for me. </p>
<p>I find much of what slipper says is accurate (maybe because I feel it’s the ideal school); it’s just that he has an obnoxious, self-inflated (I’m better than you) approach to presenting it that I haven’t found present in almost all of the scores of Dartmouth grads I know. While it certainly is not his intention, I feel his style turns as many away from Dartmouth as towards it, which I find unfortunate.</p>
<p>“though…the idea of not coming home for summer during sophomore year doesn’t sit well with me. I’d miss my friends.”</p>
<p>… go to dartmouth – dont do dplan – or else ill kill u paul -_- lol</p>
<p>Lol…staying during the summer of sophomore year is mandatory bwyan</p>
<p>Cornell is every bit as good as either amherst or Dartmouth if not BETTER in numerous and indescribable ways.
period.</p>
<p>and I’m not affiliated with any of these schools.</p>
<p>Haha funny joke hope2getrice. That’s cute.</p>
<p>please grow up and for your own sake find a better outlet for your insecurities than an online forum. </p>
<p>i think we can all agree that all three schools are three of the best colleges in the nation, and your relationship with whichever school you choose will be dictated a lot more by who you are than who the school is, so arguing which of the three schools is “best” is nothing but a moot point. </p>
<p>that being said, the three schools ARE very different. Dartmouth is relatively in the middle of nowhere, meaning that the college provides students with things to do, but that beyond that there’s not much.</p>
<p>Obviously you know that Ithaca is freezing and for me personally i am VERY affected by the weather, but that’s a personal decision. </p>
<p>I personally love Amherst, and while it is small there are ~20,000 other college kids mulling around the town, so there’s always new people to meet</p>
<p>hmm. what’s more funny is when people assume Dartmouth is some amazing gift from god, when clearly, statistics and rankings prove it is not.</p>
<p>TOTALLY DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE! ur so right. show it to the man.</p>
<p>^^^ agreed. when i visited the kids were so snobby and it dropped from my first choice to uh lower. the cornell kids were so much nicer and down to earth.</p>
<p>ha. scotchtape. I’m only saying my opinion which is based on fact. It’s definitely not going to sway a bunch of keggy opinions, but who cares about their opinions?</p>
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<p>If I am able to offer compelling arguments against your opinion that cause it to crumble in many embarrassing ways, it is not based on fact.</p>
<p>can you guys be a little more civil :x
Cornell is a great school… no need to attack or viciously defend it.
To be fair, Cornell’s engineering program and architecture program are reputed to be absolutely top-notch and can both probably compete with almost any program as far as quality is concerned.</p>
<p>to put things back on topic though… i’m probably going to major in political science and will choose between Dartmouth and Amherst because Cornell will not give me the aid i need and I’m asking for help choosing between the two and good reasons why i should choose one over the other. Insight from Dartmouth and Amherst students would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>go to dartmouth freshmen and sophmore year - when they make u do the DPlan in the summer, u leave dartmouth… then after the summer u re-enroll in dartmouth for junior/senior year… </p>
<p>easy…</p>
<p>“i think we can all agree that all three schools are three of the best colleges in the nation”</p>
<p>Amherst might be good for a LAC, but it’s all relative. For my field (math), Amherst doesn’t seem like it offers much beyond what I already knew coming out of high school, and definitely nothing beyond what I knew by the end of my sophomore year. I’d imagine sufficiently advanced people in certain other fields might be similarly limited by the lack of course selection/a graduate school.</p>
<p>If one were dissatisfied with the math offerings at Amherst, it would be very, very easy for one to collaborate with a professor, and perhaps a few other interested and motivated students, to plan out a course of studies and design an advanced or intensive course.</p>
<p>You would have to take the initiative–and that’s key–but you could have anything you wanted at Amherst.</p>
<p>scotchtapes really cool cuz he can make funny comments instead of actually presenting an argument. He makes me really want to go to dartmouth</p>
<p>"If one were dissatisfied with the math offerings at Amherst, it would be very, very easy for one to collaborate with a professor, and perhaps a few other interested and motivated students, to plan out a course of studies and design an advanced or intensive course.</p>
<p>You would have to take the initiative–and that’s key–but you could have anything you wanted at Amherst."</p>
<p>If I have to teach myself, why even bother going to college? I would have had to try and find interested/motivated students and sponsoring professors for over 20 classes to match what I got in my undergrad education. Most of those 20 classes would be in subjects that professors at Amherst wouldn’t be knowledgeable about, or in fields I wouldn’t have been aware of had I gone to Amherst. Why waste initiative trying to create classes that good schools already offer?</p>
<p>Have you actually visited all three schools? They are pretty different places.</p>