<p>I am currently at Colby, but am considering a transfer to Cornell. Which is a better school? I am pre-law, and don't care much for the size of the schools. I want to know what the consensus is on the two schools in terms of prestige, law-school opportunities, academics, and such.</p>
<p>cornell is obviously more well known, but that alone shouldn't make your decision, as colby is a phenomenal school as well. while the average person may not be familiar with colby, grad schools definitely are. what don't you like about colby?</p>
<p>To make it easier for the apathetic: if you got into Colby and Cornell, which would you attend?</p>
<p>Can you even compare the two?...Cornell hands down!</p>
<p>The two schools probably cannot be compared as one is a small, isolated,, rural, elite LAC, while the other is a large Ivy League university. Do you have guaranteed transfer status with respect to Cornell? More info. regarding your situation is needed.</p>
<p>Yes, I am a guaranteed transfer, and all things are in line for my official offer of admission with regard to first semester grades, etc. The comparison I am looking for is an holistic one--I know the sizes, athletic leagues, and so on are different.</p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>It all comes down to preference. I was accepted at cornell a long time ago and i chose not to go; i'm currently not in any "prestigious" college. If you like your small classes, stay at colby. If you want big classes, bigger campus, and less intimacy, go to cornell.</p>
<p>^^^^^
That's a gross misunderstanding of Cornell. As a transfer student, you bypass most of the freshman massive lecture hall classes. I had plenty of very small classes with many very accessible professors - 10-20 students in a class. We had extensive discussions where everybody participated and got to know the professors very well.</p>
<p>It is obviously a bigger campus, but it's gorgeous and full of so many different types of people. It's quite exhilarating. I'm not comparing it to Colby as I don't know anything about Colby. I just think to dismiss it as "less intimate" because it's large is very mistaken.</p>
<p>No its not, since I am comparing it to colby, which happens to be about 1,000-2,000 students * total *. When you compare that to cornell's 15,000 students, it is DEFINITELY less intimate.</p>
<p>i dont understand you're looking for here. you've admitted that they're completely different, but yet you're asking for why they're different?
maybe if you tell us why you want to leave colby that would help?</p>
<p>bump ^^^^^</p>
<p>How about your other thread?</p>
<p>t r o l l!</p>