<p>Thats a great plan. Flashy resume right there!</p>
<p>k g2g so I can't respond to u anymore. GL with that plan tho...that would be awesome!</p>
<p>Thank you...........</p>
<p>Then again, one could argue that the middle of spanish harlem is not the most tranquil enviorment on place on the planet.
most Columbia students will attend due to prestige. Can't exactly blame them.</p>
<p>Columbia is actually not in harlem.....more like Morningside Heights but its very close though.</p>
<p>&& ummm harlem is not so bad really ......accroding to me</p>
<p>I apologize, but the northern part of campus (120th and broadway) is not my idea of a fun time.</p>
<p>Oh, so you're generally blind to basic common sense?</p>
<p>Oops...</p>
<p>I was just wondering anyway, I wasn't attacking you. It just seemed weird that you'd "ditto" choosing Columbia over Cornell, but you still brought the question up as if it was something that was affecting you at the time...</p>
<p>Just seems weird... and irrelevant to your own opinion/choice.</p>
<p>UriA702</p>
<p>wait wait so columbia has a scattered campus 2 like NYU? i thought it was in one fixed area</p>
<p>Dude, how old are you?</p>
<p>I think So Authentic has another thing coming in the admissions process...</p>
<p>Unlike most people on this thread, I actually choose Columbia over Cornell, and yes it was for engineering in both schools. </p>
<p>Cornell really had a top notch program, but I perfered the balance that a Columbia education would give me. There is no difference between the job opportunites available a columbia or cornell after you have a degree, despite that many people on this site claim that Cornell has a better program. Cornell is really a huge school, the engineering school alone is twice the size of Columbia's (750 or so per class versus 300 or so). I think I'll benefit more from a smaller setting with less competition. </p>
<p>Columbia also was closer to home, had more favorable colors, in a major city, felt more at home when I visited than at Cornell (town houses were terrible) blah blah blah blah blah the usual reasons.</p>
<p>Columbia and Chicago, that was hard.</p>
<p>"Columbia and Chicago, that was hard."</p>
<p>This is a good point. If you've had the luxury to visit both schools, then it's clear that they have different environments (both social and academic). When you're comparing schools like Chicago with Columbia, however, that's where you get into a pickle of a situation.</p>
<p>Your Leviathan sucks!</p>
<p>hmm, cornell definitely has a better engineering program than columbia. even without its engineering program being ranked higherrrr than columbia's by usnews, i think its pretty obvious.</p>
<p>So Authentic---</p>
<p>Columbia is 100% enclosed from the rest of the city. In fact, going up on 113-114th street, you immediately notice almost like castle wall's erected for a few blocks up till 116 that totally encloses Columbia. There's only 2 main entrances ( and that's college walk). No one outside of campus can even get on campus at night without those two entrances.</p>
<p>Edit: By the way, Authentic, if you've never visited Columbia you really should. It's truly a remarkable sight to behold.</p>
<p>And to the poster above: It's obvious that one would choose Cornell over Columbia? Not according to any people I know... nor cross-admit data for that matter. I think for undergrad at least, Columbia is a few notches above Cornell (not to disparage Cornell- it's an amazing school).</p>
<p>mrsopresident, without considering the usnews rankings, i would hardly say cornell's engineering is "obviously" better than columbias, in fact, based on other criteria, one could easily make the exact opposite assertion. first, what does "better" mean? higher sats? lower acceptance rate? lower student to faculty ratio? well, the engineering sections of both cornell and columbia have nearly the exact interquartile ranges (columbia: 730-800M, 660-740CR; cornell: 730-800M, 650-740CR). columbia's engineering acceptance rate is significantly lower than cornells (18% vs 26% [if i recall]), and columbia engr has a more favorable student to faculty ratio than cornell (9:1 vs 12.5:1). now i know we could go on into faculty with nobel prizes, how much funding was spent on research and so forth, but the point is without usnews the difference is hardly "obvious". anyway, at the end of the day we are still columbia, and they are still just cornell, enough said (low blow, i know xD).</p>
<p>truazn I visited columbia a few times. Its a good place to be but I heardIthaca is frikkin beautiful. tehonly downfall is extremely cold winters (i heard) </p>
<p>hobbes i think i would rather pick Manhattan over chicago. I don't but manhattan has more to offer</p>
<p>mikenthemaddog, so you'd rather be around your parents than stay in dorms?</p>
<p>For the love of God, can we stop referring to SAT score ranges as a means of determing the worth of an educational institution?</p>
<p>Christ Almighty.</p>
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It's still 2.5 hours away, which is good enough.</p>
<p>Closer to home means move-in and move-out is much easier. It means I might be able to see a big soccer game or track meet that my sister would play in. </p>
<p>Also, I live on the Jersey Shore, a block away from the beach. </p>
<p>Now, it doesn't matter if Cornell has a stronger program than Columbia, which it may and probably does have at the margin, because the close proximity to industry more than makes up for that fact. If you go to Cornell or you go to Columbia you're going to get a good job right out of college, provided you put in some effort. So if the ends are the same, one should choose a more pleasant means. At Cornell I can imagine it would be an expression used to mean a female dog to walk from one of those town houses in the snow for 30-45 minutes to get to classes everyday in the winter.</p>
<p>vesalvay, well the ivy league does have an annoying tendacy of admitting alot of people with super high scores </p>
<p>mike, I know what you mean. But still i think dorm life will benfit you more because you're closer to the school community and you won't miss out on school-related stuff</p>
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<p>he never said he was going to live at home....a 2.5 hour commute would be insane.</p>