<p>Which one is easier to get into? and which one is better recognized?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>I don't know the admission statistics, but Cornell is certainly recognized as a better engineering program. </p>
<p>this post has the 2008 rankings, Cornell is #7 Columbia is #20</p>
<p>as far as admissions go, columbia eng. is more difficult to get into. The columbia engineering admissions is somewhere in the upper teens while cornell engineering is in the upper twenties. Cornell is known to have a stronger engineering program, though. When I told my math teacher who is a former engineer that I would be visiting columbia and cornell, he got all excited when i mentioned cornell engineering.</p>
<p>i hear that Cornell has the better engineering school, but Columbia is great too.</p>
<p>I don't think you'll really go wrong with either. Cornell is probably easier to get into, but is better recognized in engineering. On the other hand, it seems that Columbia overall has more prestige at least in the US.</p>
<p>why is cornell engineering better AND easier to get in?</p>
<p>^^
the same way that U Mich Engineering is better and easier to get in and harvard engineering is worse and harder to get in...</p>
<p>low admit rate != quality in specific fields</p>
<p>I'm not so sure that Cornell engineering is easier to get into than Columbia Fu. Anyone have the middle 50% SAT ranges for both engineering schools?</p>
<p>Cornell engineering is definitely better than Columbia though.</p>
<p>Fu:
CR- 660-740
M- 730-800</p>
<p>CU:
CR-660-750
M- 730-800</p>
<p>Fu I found on collegeboard... it might be outdated. Cornell's I found on the engineering website.</p>
<p>cornell's engineering program is statistically easier to get into. however, the caliber of students who apply to the engineering department are generally more academically accomplished than at other cornell divisions. columbia is a small school. they will obviously not perform too well in engineering rankings when they've only got 20 or so students majoring in a specific field within engineering. something like engineering thrives in a larger environment, which is why cornell is the better school. many students at FU are only there to become future investment bankers, sadly, and want to steer clear from columbia college's core curriculum. columbia, overall, is known as a smaller liberal arts school (better known for the humanities rather than sciences).</p>
<p>Cornell engineering enjoys more prestige than Columbia Engineering in the international community and in the United States.</p>
<p>And Cornell Engineering Admissions is highly self-selective.</p>
<p>it's not easier to get in. It's better and a lot tougher than most programs in the country, and it scares away people who would apply elsewhere.</p>
<p>Columbia sucks in a lot of things</p>
<p>Also, the reason that Cornell engineering is good, isn't because of the "larger environment," and there is no correlation between larger class and greatness of program (MIT is an example of this). Cornell is great because of the resources it has at its disposal, the RIDICULOUSLY accomplished faculty and the amazing students that go to the school.</p>
<p>Cornell is better recognized.</p>
<p>Cornell is probably better in general...you could consider columbia is you're particularly interested in financial engineering, but cornell ORIE is just as good. I guess, as far as prestige and quality of the program, cornell engineering is better, but sometimes its not all about prestige. If you have to have the city life, then Ithaca is not the place to be...I knew someone who transferred from Cornell Engineering to Columbia engineering only because she wanted to be in the city, but i saw her recently and she commented that Columbia's campus life was almost non-existant compared to cornell...so its more about what feel you want and what major you're interested in (she was in financial engineering/finance)</p>
<p>columbia's social life is worse than cornell?</p>
<p>Yes! Campus life at Columbia is horrible, there isn't much to do, whereas at Cornell there is tons to do. This isn't however an indictment of Columbia, rather, Cornell needs to have good campus life, because otherwise there's just Ithaca. Columbia doesn't need to boast as great of campus life because they have NYC.</p>
<p>i applied to FU and got rejected, and i'm applying to CU now, so obviously cornell is better</p>
<p>lol. i've been to both..didn't like columbia as much as cornell in terms of the 'campus life' but as someone else said, NYC is an extended campus. it isn't for everyone, but can be great if you know how to take advantage of it.</p>
<p>I actually visited a friend at Columbia a while ago. I prefer Cornell's spread out campus, but NYC is just spectacular.</p>