<p>I'm having a really hard time choosing, and I'm running out of time..</p>
<p>Cornell is great, and i would do engineering there, so i know that i would get a great education</p>
<p>but i also want to go to UVA, and there is a great undergraduate business program there and it is sunny and there are things like 'shakespeare on the lawn'..</p>
<p>UVA is more expensive as of now, but that could change when my sister graduates college in 2 yrs. also, uva has a policy of only having a max of like $20,000 debt at graduation.</p>
<p>Cornell and UVa have a lot of similarities in terms of campus feel and student life (collegetown, Greek system, etc.), but I do think that in most disciplines (save for maybe business and English) Cornell has a stronger reputation.</p>
<p>Do you really want to study engineering or do you want to study business? </p>
<p>Correct me if I am wrong, but it is also not a guarantee that you would study business at UVa – it is a competitive program, right?</p>
<p>And for what it is worth, Cornell has its own Shakespeare troupe as well – and I’ve watched a production of Richard III in Cornell’s Plantations:</p>
<p>My D is also choosing between Cornell and UVA, both in engineering. Unfortunately, she is full pay for both and OOS for UVA. Thus Cornell is a very costly option. She loved UVa and is planning to visit Cornell this weekend. Her fear about Cornell is that it will be a more competitive, cut throat environment and more difficult to get good grades. Is this perception of Cornell engineering versus U. Va correct?</p>
<p>UVA will probably have a lot more chiller southern types…</p>
<p>Cornell is full of nerdy folks…i think she needs to go wherever she feels she fits in best (socially) although Cornell is the better school and if she’s interested in business she could end up doing ORIE</p>
<p>lol i sounded like pablo there didnt i? rofl…full was obviously an exaggeration…but that doesnt mean that cornell engineering isnt half nerdy at least…</p>
<p>i have a feeling that UVA engineering is more jockish than cornell’s…</p>
<p>i’m having a difficult time choosing between these two as well.
and on top of that, they’re both the same price for me (OOS for UVA and In State for Cornell HumEc)</p>
<p>currently I’m considering the FSAD option, which is very cool and unique. </p>
<p>what if I wasn’t doing that though, for the social sciences does either UVA or Cornell have a significantly better reputation?</p>
<p>Isn’t OOS for UVA considerably higher than in-state for Cornell HumEc?</p>
<p>I think that Cornell’s social sciences are marginally stronger than UVa, especially if you are interested in research in the applied fields (e.g. human development or labor economics). That combined with FSAD might tip the favor towards Cornell, unless you have a particular fondness for Charlottesville.</p>
<p>My son chose Cornell. I’m glad he did. From what I gather (friends and relatives that attended) UVa. has a HS clickish nature to it. Lot’s of insiders from the same No. Virg. schools. Cornell is much more diverse. Keep that in mind when choosing.</p>
<p>i just visited a friend at uva a few weeks ago. definitely a gorgeous school with great tradition, a really vibrant town around campus, and much better weather. i would say the campus feel was pretty similar and so was the party scene. uva is a great school, if you decide to do engineering do cornell but if its for business its more of a toss up. i did see that some of the elite northern va kids form cliques and then the realy southern va kids do the same, so if you are from the north you might find that annoying. </p>
<p>for example, my friend said you cant get into their “top” fraternities/sororities if you arent from va, and one house even asked him to fill out a form that said: “if you family moved to va in 1700-1800 check here, 1800-1900 check here, etc…” they do have houses full of northern kids too, and not that fraternities/soroities are necessarily for you, but that could be a good indication of how the campus segregates in general. my friend loves it, and all of my cornell friends and i were admittedly jealous of him when we visited.</p>
<p>I just made the same decision, I chose Cornell because it has stronger environmental sciences. I live within an hour of UVA and a bunch of my friends go there and from what I gathered from my visits and its reputation is that it can be pretty preppy and hierarchical because of all of the traditions there. Its a great school and my friends who go there love it but one of the things I liked about Cornell is it seemed a lot more laid back and diverse</p>
<p>yeah i was afriad the cliquishness might be very prevalent.</p>
<p>i wouldnt really have a place in that- i’m double legacy, but both of my parents were out of state kids… i’m visiting monday and hopefully that will help me out</p>
<p>cornell seems at least as strong academically, if not stronger, in most areas, probably by virtue of virginia being state-funded, but they are really not majorly different in that way… i just find charlottesville more charming than ithaca, sigh</p>
<p>OP, may I ask a question? Why did you apply to Cornell and Uva for two different programs? I don’t know what your true interests are, at this point.
Well, I would choose Cornell if you aren’t interested in graduate school and Uva if you are. If you look at the median grades intro classes, the averages are really low (B, B+), and you’re competing against smart people here. Uva is easier to get a higher GPA unless you go the McIntire route, but I don’t know your true intentions, so I can’t help you any further.
And Catchamberlain: Sorry to disappoint you, but Cornell does not offer biomedical engineering as a major. Biological engineering, yes, biomedical engineering, only as a concentration or minor.</p>
<p>i applied to the two different programs because, to be honest, I am not completely sure what I want to do.
When i applied to colleges this fall/winter, I primarily applied to engineering schools, really impressive ones like cornell and berkeley.
I knew i wanted to apply to uva and almost applied engineering, but i believe uva’s engineering was not quite what i wanted in terms of size/resources.
now im deciding not only between uva and cornell, but major</p>
<p>i do want to go to grad school, but i’m not going to stress about my gpa in college right now while deciding where to go undergrad</p>
<p>A B+ is low, really now? You are aware that a ‘B’ used to mean above average work?</p>
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<p>That’s because if you are really interested in biomedical engineering you should be studying biochemistry, chemical engineering, or electrical engineering. It’s a highly specialized field that requires many years of graduate study to master. The idea that you can learn everything you need as an undergrad to ‘major’ in it is absurd.</p>