<p>I want to do some sort of engineering before going into premed (if I feel like it, otherwise I'll just work). Can you guys compare these schools in terms of engineering and undergraduate experience? [I was considering Brown University, but I took that off my list when even the Brown folks on this board said not to go to Brown for engineering.]</p>
<p>Cornell University
Columbia University (Fu Foundation)
Dartmouth College</p>
<p>Dartmouth has an engineering major but is on a smaller scale than Cornell and Columbia. Dartmouth is one of the better Ivies for many subjects but not engineering.</p>
<p>Cornell and Columbia both have outstanding engineering programs. Cornell's engineering school is quite a bit larger than Columbia's...more opportunities, diverse course selection, etc. Very different environments: small town vs big city. For premed I think biomedical engineering which is not Cornell's strength. But Cornell is outstanding in most other fields of engineering.</p>
<p>How do you plan to do engineering "before" premed? They would be simultaneous.</p>
<p>maybe he meant if he feels like doing all the premed requirements and take the MCAT and apply to medical school on a whim then he won't work in engineering.</p>
<p>I can do a biomedical engineering major or even a core engineering major, depending on the school, to fulfill premed requirements and then apply to medical school. However, I'm not sure if I want to work as an engineer or become a doctor, but I do know that I don't want to do a standard premed major because if I don't get into medical school, then I'll be screwed.</p>
<p>The thing about Dartmouth is that you might stand out a bit more in their engineering department than at a Cornell, which I would imagine has loads of great applicants (not to say that Dartmouth doesn't get plenty of great applicants, but you get what I'm going for). That seems like an advantage of Dartmouth to me.</p>
<p>I like Dartmouth for everything that is: a small liberal arts school with amazing academics. Of course, that reputation does not discredit Columbia or Cornell one bit. I just want to know how close Columbia and Cornell would be to Dartmouth in this respect.</p>
<p>Hmmm...Columbia I think has a pretty good, if very different, undergrad experience--I know that Princeton Review rates it very highly in this respect. Definitely a question of whether the city is right for you, though, and whether you are a self-starter or not. Cornell I think of as having a more traditional, large college feeling, which was a minus for me, but it certainly isn't for many, judging by Cornell's huge increase in applications this past year.</p>