<p>I love both, plzz help!!!!</p>
<p>PICK CORNELL, IT HAS MORE OPPORTUNITIES, BETTER FACILITIES, AND MORE WODERFUL PEOPLE LIKE ME!</p>
<p>(I just decided on Cornell today, take your time and follow your heart and instinct. Remember, you can always transfer later)</p>
<p>Anyone who has 'objective' advice is welcomed to post here. Thanks for your response brittanymo001 but your statement is not entirely valid. To say it has better opportunities is not true as I think they both will provide me with the same opportunities.</p>
<p>You're not going to find objective advice on either the Cornell or Northwestern boards, especially since you haven't given anyone any more information.</p>
<p>I think objectively CORNELL HAS MORE OPPORTUNITIES, BETTER FACILITIES, AND MORE WODERFUL PEOPLE LIKE ME!</p>
<p>Okay. Why is it that you are stuck between Cornell and Northwestern? What is it that you want to know about Cornell compared to Northwestern, and Northwestern compared to Cornell? From your post, I can't tell you which school you should go to because you haven't given enough information.</p>
<p>I want to study pre-med, and am a little nervous about the cut-throat competition at cornell. I hear that they weed pre-med kids like flies, prob the same at NW but to a smaller effect.</p>
<p>Now now, if you're going to start stereotyping things beforehand, and not read any of the 5,000 posts saying Cornell isn't cutthroat, you'd be better off not going to college.</p>
<p>And did you hear that from an actual Cornell premed student?</p>
<p>Northwestern's med placement rate is in the 80s% (according to a post I saw; another said 88%). Pretty decent. NU's big weed-out class is orgo. Lots of Cs were given when I was there. It's rumored to be the toughest in the country; I don't know how that's possible to claim but one of my friends who was HPME (he's good enough to get into HYPS) got B+ for 2 consecutive quarters in orgo while he got pretty much As in all other classes. My another friend who got a C the first quarter and didn't want to get another C for the second sequence got an A in another school over a summer. A girl who went to my church and went to Penn took the orgo at NU over the summer said it's the hardest class she ever took. But then there's this guy who's a sociology major getting As on it and said all of the materials "made sense".</p>
<p>hmm...i have the same dilemma as dog87.:p
i'm going into engineering and i even visited them both. but that made it actually harder to decide. i mean, i liked cornell better before i visited and the visits pulled northwestern up. so aaaah i'm stuck hehehe. i liked northwestern's campus and neighborhood. i mean, it's cuter cuz it's all close together and stuff. and the weather will be slightly better too. but cornell has a major that i might be interested in studying...and it is better known for engineering. haha the food was better there too. i dont know.. i feel like i wanna go to cornell more, but if i make the pros and cons list, i have more reasons to go to northwestern than cornell. wow i'm so indecisive. i know i cant make a bad choice, but i wanna make a best one possible. if anyone wants to comment on this or has any ideas/suggestions, please post. thanks!!!:)</p>
<p>If I were a prospective female engineering student I would choose Northwestern:</p>
<p>Thirty-one percent of the undergraduates at McCormick are female, well above the national average of 20 percent. And the students stay to graduate: The class of 2000 had a retention rate of close to 90 percent for female engineers.</p>
<p>Today, one-third of McCormick students are women, putting it at the head of the Big Tens engineering schools and among the nations leaders in the percentage of women it enrolls. McCormick also has one of the highest percentages of women faculty members among major engineering schools.</p>
<p>You should even look at location. Northwestern (Evanston) is near downtown Chicago so there is more of a city life. Cornell is isolated. Break it down to the simple facts at least. Make a pro/con list for yourself.</p>
<p>The amount of times you actually go into Chicago will actually be very small. I live in Deerfield, IL 10 minutes from Evanston and have met a few Northwestern students. I would compare Evanston with Ithaca, not Chicago with Ithaca.</p>
<p>Just tonight I spoke with a friend whose son is graduating from Brown (which he has thoroughly enjoyed). However, he said that he has learned that although choosing a college for proximity to a city was attractive to him when he was a high school student, he has found this factor to be overrated. He rarely made use of what Providence has to offer as most things were in and around campus, and he would not use proximity to a city as a factor if were to choose again. When you attend a large school like Cornell with a varied and vibrant campus life, in a college town like Ithaca, city life isn't so necessary, unless, perhaps, you have no access to city life during school breaks and summers.</p>
<p>I agree. I just got back from UChicago, and the city was more limiting to me. (No where to go and see nature, etc.) To me, visiting the city or spending a summer there is much better than having to call it home for 4 years. That's just me, though.</p>
<p>" i liked northwestern's campus and neighborhood. i mean, it's cuter cuz it's all close together and stuff. and the weather will be slightly better too. "
As a current Cornell student and spent a summer at NU doing research, I can tell you that Cornell's campus is a lot better than NU's campus. Other than Lake Michigan, NU's campus isn't really that good anyway. The whole campus looks more like a suburb than a college campus. However, I must say that the view from Cook's third floor is just amazing. It's so peaceful to look at Lake Michigan from Cook in a peaceful summer afternoon. By the way, the weather in CHICAGO SUCKS. I talked to several Cornell alumni who are doing Ph.D at NU, they actually hate Chicago's winter more than Ithaca's. Ithaca snows when it's cold outside. Chicago is just windy and freaking cold.
By the way Dog87, if you want to do premed at a top university, you will face lots of weed out classes. 86% of Cornell med school applicants with a 3.4> GPA got into a med school. I don't think it would be that hard to get a 3.4 if you spend enough time studying.</p>
<p>man, kudos on getting into NU. I remember looking at the application, and seeing 7 short paragraphs/essay!! damyn (hell's no). so yeah, i was a lazy bum and didn't apply, hence i know nothing about NU.</p>
<p>sorry this post brought no intellectual comment.</p>
<p>One of my friends is at Northwestern and he said that after freshman year, most people get stuck with a clique and don't socialize much outside of it. They also rarely go to Chicago so it's not fair comparing a big city to a small town. The weather between the two schools is comparable. </p>
<p>Cornell has a better name if you care about prestige, but academically, both are great schools and you can't go wrong with either one. I chose Cornell over NU but my reason was that I didn't like their school colors. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>shizz, you'd actually look good in purple!</p>