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<p>Those are excellent reasons to pick a school. If you did have the choice, I’d really hope you had gone to Cornell for Northwestern’s sake. Go you!</p>
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<p>This is a good basis on making your decision too. Props to you, wise one.</p>
<p>At any rate, I had this exact choice with a few more in consideration, and I chose Northwestern. To preface my reasons, I applied to Cornell only because my dad saw to it that I applied to his alma mater, but anyway, I think the two schools are fairly equal academically. For me it came down to what kind of an environment I wanted to spend four years in, and being the live music, visual art and culture-loving person I am, I couldn’t think of having to spend four years in Ithaca, though stunningly beautiful, when I could be twenty minutes from Chicago. Actually, for that reason, Cornell was out of the picture much earlier on in the process as was Duke for me, and it came down to choosing between Cal and Northwestern, at which point I chose the latter because I couldn’t see myself at a school with 25,000 undergraduates. But really, I think it’s all up to the individual. I know people who’d rather be in an environment like Ithaca and Hanover rather than Chicago or New York; by all means, go to Cornell if you’re that person, you will be miserable at Northwestern with the lack of mountains and waterfalls surrounding campus. You aren’t going to be spending the entire next four years “just” studying. You’ll be doing quite a lot of “living” so I’d pick a place where you can do that best as well.</p>
<p>Edit: as for the talk over wrestling. Frankly, I don’t know anyone on campus who watch sports like wrestling. But hey if you’re being recruited by means make that factor in making your choice but I think it’s safe to say for most it is absolutely irrelevant.</p>