<p>I'm stuck between these two colleges? What one do you think is better overall and give reasons please</p>
<p>It would help if you described what you want in a college. What fields, climates, rigour, etc.</p>
<p>I prefer Cornell because of research and the sheer number of fields available to study in. But whatever.</p>
<p>they're very different. cornell has 7x the amount of students as colgate.</p>
<p>Have you visited both schools? Both great schools, and often both appear on a student's list, but they are different too; a visit might help you figure out which school is better fit for you.</p>
<p>What do you plan to major in? As jags861 said, they are different. Colgate is a great Liberal Arts College (small, very few graduate students) while Cornell is a major University with about 30% graduate students. Depends on what you are looking for in a college and what you want to major in.</p>
<p>I prefer Colgate, but I like LACs and don't like the pretention present at ivy league schools...</p>
<p>I know that Ivies have a reputation for pretention, but Cornell has a large proportion of middle class and public school students. Cornell also makes a concerted effort to recruit underrepresented minorities and to help talented, low-income students afford Cornell. Cornell students are generally not fashion-conscious or status-conscious. I found them to be down-to-earth, hardworking, and very polite. Cornell is quite diverse and nobody should fear being out-of-place. That is, unless you are one of the few Caucasian Americans in the Engineering school. LOL</p>
<p>Actually, colgate stereotypically has as much pretention as the most pretentious ivies, whereas cornell is stereotypically the most grounded school in that league.</p>
<p>Cornell is more well known and, on average, has slightly more accomplished students. However, the difference isn't that great (SAT avgs are ~ 30 points higher at Cornell) that it's probably better to go by best fit. From what I saw, about 1/3 of Colgate students who applied to Cornell got in. Cornell is ~ 4x larger (not 7x). It depends what you mean by pretentious. Cornell doesn't have the reputation for snobbery that Harvard or Princeton has, but Colgate doesn't have that either. For top 20 northeastern colleges, both schools probably have more students coming from public high schools than most of their peers.</p>
<p>Cornell..................</p>