<p>I was accepted into both universities, but I'm having a very hard time selecting one. Please give me your insight as to which is the better school and why.</p>
<p>Congratulation, very nice choices. I don’t know enough about McGill to answer your question really. What college are you accepted to in Cornell. Are you canadian or american?</p>
<p>I suspect that there is going to be a large price difference for you. That has to be part of the comparison. How does it look?</p>
<p>Clearly there are differences in location and culture to consider if your have a preference, it will be your home for 4 years.</p>
<p>One thing to look at is the matter of size. Both are large college community with undergrad and grad students. McGill has 22,000 undergraduate students. Cornell has something like 22,000 (need to check) but if you were in the college of A&S say, you’d have 6,000 in your college. You might have more large classes at McGill, something to investigate.</p>
<p>Cornell is pretty much guaranteed to have strong departments across the board. The Engineering school is renown. You might like the brown the individual Cornell forum here, don’t know if there is one for McGill. </p>
<p>Thank you for the reply! I forgot to elaborate on certain things, thank you for reminding me. For both Cornell and McGill, I got accepted into Arts and Science. There’s definitely a large price disparity, but I’m trying to ignore price for now and simply decide which school has a better reputation and would give me more opportunities in life and a better education. </p>
<p>What is the cost difference? Can your parents afford the more expensive school? Are you Canadian?</p>
<p>I was hoping to just get a better understanding about the quality of the education as a whole, but I guess it’s more convenient for me to explain more about myself.
I’m both a Canadian and American citizen, and I was actually born in Montreal and I’ve lived in Ithaca for nine years, so I’m familiar with both locations. McGill would be very cheap for me, only a few thousand dollars, and Cornell would be in the forty thousands for me.
However, price isn’t really a huge issue for me. What’s a problem is that I am presently interested in an International Relations degree, which McGill has and Cornell doesn’t. Cornell has an IR minor, however. Ultimately, I’d like to perhaps either stay in the US or go international for grad school, but I don’t want to go to grad school in Canada. I’m also not sold on an IR degree.
In any case, please let me know which school would give me a better education in general and which school is, in your opinion, better.
Thanks!</p>