<p>and.. u penn and berkeley..
i'm an international and applied for chemical engineering..
not sure..if i'm gonna do engineering at grad school</p>
<p>anybody tell me your opinion!! where would u go???</p>
<p>I applied for (and got into) 3 of those 4. Berkeley, while being arguably the #1 engineering school in the nation, is a horrible college experience. I didn't want to be in a triple dorm-room, have nothing but TAs, never be able to talk to a professor in my life, live in Berkeley, etc.</p>
<p>I visited both Cornell and Columbia, and the decision became instantly clear. They're quite different schools. Ithaca was way too cold and rural for me, and I loved NYC. Columbia is also a much smaller school. Cornell has a slightly higher ranked engineering school, but how the grad program is rated isn't that much of an issue for an undergrad.</p>
<p>I applied to both and I'm chosing Columbia for a few reasons...location (NYC >>> Ithica) and courses (I'm doing Chem.E. too and these are the 2 "typical" degree layouts:
<a href="http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/students/academics/dept/cheme.php?tab=undergradreqs%5B/url%5D">http://www.engineering.columbia.edu/students/academics/dept/cheme.php?tab=undergradreqs</a>
<a href="http://www.cheme.cornell.edu/img/curriculum_flowchart.gif%5B/url%5D">http://www.cheme.cornell.edu/img/curriculum_flowchart.gif</a> )</p>
<p>personally i like the Core curric., but i guess that's a personal choice.</p>
<p>i didnt apply to UC-Berk or Penn simply because big schools turn me off for some reason</p>