<p>So I just got into Columbia off the waitlist. I have already committed at Cornell wanting to study bioengineering and a minor in BME. </p>
<p>I was pretty disappointed to be waitlisted at Columbia, because I loved the school, but now I'm not so sure. So...advice please?</p>
<p>I want to do premed, school size/location doesn't really matter to me. </p>
<p>The main thing is this, have you guys enjoyed your time at Columbia? Does being in New York offer many advantages? Disadvantages? Does Columbia have a premed track and advising system? What is their record for getting people into medical school. Housing? General stuff would be amazing too. Thanks!</p>
<p>haha pre-med and engineering...have fun in college.
Actually, this is pretty important. If you just plan on becoming an engineer then I would choose cornell becuase the projects teams, the prestige, the education is amazing whereas fu is like eh..</p>
<p>But columbia may be better for pre-med and it is also located in the middle of NY which would give you more opportunity to get better internships.</p>
<p>Ya you are split there w/ majors. But I just wanted to post here to tell you that you posted your Columbia questions on the Cornell forum. Did u have Cornell questions u accidently didn't get to ask because of that?</p>
<p>i never really got the 'internship are better with the nyc location' - at least looking at what all of my friends have done who go to columbia and NYU. The only examples I can think of are the tiny (and, ahem ... crappy) employers that didn't want to travel. For these, Columbia is the obvious choice. </p>
<p>Other than that, all of the big time employers and firms will travel to Cornell for presentations and recruiting. The one big similarity is the fact that both the big firms and little firms use the Cornell online recruitment server thing. I got a job in DC and it was through an online post then phone interviews - and Cornell is pretty far away from DC (duh!)</p>
<p>If you are premed, you will be doing research internships. I've had no problems getting research positions coming from Cornell. Location isn't a factor.</p>
<p>well gomester, you are ILR so it is a little bit different. He's premed, so some clinical related internship will make it much easier to apply to medical school with experiences. I mean Cayuga medical center is great and all...but cornell and IC are the main contributor to the hospital whereas NYC is much more diverse in terms of clinical...plus, he can work part-time at a hospital if he doesn't specific want to participate in an abroad (Cornell at DC) program. But then again, its all what you decide to do with ur time, I know cornell can provide a wonderful premed education</p>
<p>However,
If you want to do research, it would be a tossup...or cornell because cornell definately has a better engineering school</p>
<p>^^^What are you talking about? During the school year, you're not going to be doing any internships. Most of the premeds who volunteer in a hospital do meaningless jobs like transporting patients or putting together charts. I guess if you work in a NYC hospital you may be able to push around more black or hispanic patients than if you work in Ithaca...</p>
<p>If you're talking about summer internships, you are free to go whether you want for those. You don't have to stay in Ithaca. Cornell is strong enough in the sciences that any potential hospital or research institution from anywhere in the country is going to recognize its name.</p>
<p>For the average person, dropping the name columbia would get more of a wow factor than cornell, granted they are both pretty prestigious. Very few people would stop to think that for an engineering profession cornell is a better choice.</p>
<p>I honestly think that you should go to Cornell only b/c if you lose interest in engineering, you could transfer schools easily. At Columbia, you're stuck at Fu cuz it's hard to transfer to the College.</p>
<p>Thats not entirely accurate; i know a few people who transferred from SEAS to the college at columbia and even some who transferred vice versa. Its actually a fairly simple process if you have the right prerequisites and reasons to make the transfer.</p>
<p>I thought that at Columbia, to transfer out of Engineering it is necessary to go through their formal transfer process. Which I suppose puts you in competition with others hoping to transfer in. But of course, this doesn't mean that some kids don't transfer out of engineering, just that it isn't a given.</p>
<p>Yeah, thats correct, they treat you as a formal transfer applicant when going between the college and SEAS. But theres a difference from what they say and what actually happens. They say that to discourage kids from applying to one school or another in order to try and work the system and gain admissions advantages with the hopes of a simple transfer down the road. From what ive seen, transfer applicants from the college and SEAS rarely get denied unless there is a schedule conflict or the students advisor sees no real reason to let the kid transfer. I will agree though that this is a somewhat superfluous and pretty much retarded way of going about things that is handled with much more grace at Cornell.</p>