<p>I am fairly undecided as to what I want to do in life, though I do enjoy languages. I don't even frankly know if I will want to major in a language-related field.</p>
<p>Based on whatever criteria you wish (just please state those you choose), which would you deem a better school?</p>
<p>georgetown…first of all, dc is much better ithica.</p>
<p>georgetown also has a large international presence with the SFS, which is great for studying languages</p>
<p>yeah, i ve got this same problem. gtown or cornell. at cornell i was accepted to arts and sciences and at georgetown i was accepted to mcdonough. im leaning towards business, but who knows what i might do…lol</p>
<p>thoughts?</p>
<p>I was once in Ithaca in April and it snowed. I think weather is a real consideration in this decision.</p>
<p>any more advice ppl??? i am completely having humongous trouble deciding.</p>
<p>You are on a Georgetown board, so you’re not going to get anything else than GTOWN all the way!!!</p>
<p>Cornell is huge, cold, and but has very good food. If that’s your thing, then by all means. We would love to have you at Georgetown though!</p>
<p>sophomore12, thanks alot. i thought at first it would be georgetown no doubt, but then i began leaning towards cornell and now im smack dab in the middle. lets see how my visits to both the campuses go</p>
<p>Well, Cornell is an Ivy League so I think it has a better brand name than Georgetown, but like a previous poster said, Ithaca is a backwater town in comparison to D.C. Georgetown also has a better study abroad program so if you’re studying languages, then that would probably be a good feature.</p>
<p>Don’t underestimate the power of weather. I went to school in upstate New York for a year and it depressed me (and I’m from Michigan!). Being stranded in the middle of nowhere didn’t help either.</p>
<p>That aside, if you are looking to take a language such as Arabic, we have great programs. I’ve heard good things about the French and Japanese programs. In addition, many GU students go abroad for at least a semester junior. Because its so common, you don’t have to worry about “missing out” in your extracurriculars or socially.</p>
<p>If you do choose to major in a language, you also have the option of getting a minor in business (the only program at GU allowed to do this). Transferring between the schools is fairly easy as well. Since Georgetown has a core liberal arts curriculum, you don’t have to worry about being behind when transferring into the SFS or business school or another College major.</p>
<p>i dont think cornell being an ivy league gives it a much better rep than Gtown. i think in that aspect and academically the two schools are virtually equal. gtown has the urban setting but cornell has better housing and dining from what ive heard. and if i go to gtown im going to be in the business school. but im still going to do study abroad. </p>
<p>anyone knnow anything about cornell’s study abroad program? i doubt its as good as gtown’s but how is it?</p>
<p>@ madhukar92…check out the link posted by TheRoad on “How good is Georgetown’s reputation?” thread. Interesting!!</p>
<p>This dilemma is serious, but I will tell you this. I have heard that Cornell is known to be the “easiest Ivy to get into, the hardest to get out of.” I think you will find Cornell to be more of a pressure-cooker than Georgetown. In terms of getting the “whole” college experience, hands down, I would choose Gtown in a heartbeat. The location, the academics, the athletics, the community…hoya saxa baby</p>
<p>well i think cornell is the whole college experience too. no? except maybe the athletics aren’t as good. but cornell did go further than gtown in march madness this year :P</p>
<p>but anyways. what do you mean “hardest to get out of”?</p>
<p>and luvthecape, i already read that thread. but thanks. lol the stuff written in that thread is mostly whats kept me from enrolling in cornell lol.</p>
<p>it means its the hardest to graduate from.</p>
<p>as in super-competitive?</p>
<p>I’d definitely go to Georgetown if I had this decision in front of me (I would have went to my flagship state school over Cornell, even). Why? Georgetown is in DC, which not only has excellent internship opportunities, but is overall a wonderful city to be in. There are many things to do and places to go, even outside of internship and job opportunities. I feel like nearly everyone is involved at Georgetown. Even people who might seem like they don’t belong at Georgetown are doing their part around campus or in the city to help out. </p>
<p>I’m biased, but DC weather is a lot better than Ithaca’s. I love snow, but I also visit central and upstate New York and that amount of snow (and isolation) gets to be depressing. Here in DC, I wore my flip flops til late November without any trouble. It’s also gorgeous outside during the fall and spring, and it usually doesn’t snow very much.</p>
<p>Cornell just seems too stressful. A decent amount of people from my high school get in, but few ever attend. Those who do attend find it extremely stressful and I know that one applied to transfer out. I guess Cornell does have the ivy league name.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck with your decision.</p>
<p>“I know that one applied to transfer out”</p>
<p>The 6 year graduation rates for Cornell and Georgetown are exactly the same.</p>
<p>If Cornelll is actually more stressful it would probably be because sciences are stressful and Cornell has a lot of science and engineering majors. Whether a government major at each school would find one more stressful is another matter. As a top school Georgetown undoubtedly has lots of students interested in achieving admission to top law and MBA programs, if you imagine one achieves these without a certain stress level you are kidding yourself, IMO.</p>
<p>Regarding languages, the most recent NRC rankings evaluated 3 language departments. They are old, but how much are they likely to change, really. Cornell was ranked 8th in French and Spanish, 3rd in German. Georgetown was unranked (i.e. greater than 45th) in French, 28th in German and 30th in Spanish. If your interest is asian languages you should check out Cornell’s FALCON program.Also maybe this is useful
<a href=“http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/language_brochure.pdf[/url]”>http://admissions.cornell.edu/downloads/language_brochure.pdf</a></p>
<p>As for #11, percentages taken across the whole university can be misleading, since Cornell has 7 undergraduate colleges with different missions and student interests. Georgetown doesn’t have most of these programs or colleges.
Only 1/3 of cornell undergrads are studying in its arts &Sciences college, which is the college there that most students would be considering vs. Georgetown. There are no separate wsj-type grad school matriculation statistics available for CAS students alone.</p>
<p>City school vs. campus-centered experience in a bucolic college town are indeed starkly different, and I agree climate is somewhat different as well. And I’m guessing about this, but probably there are relatively a higher proportion of Catholic students at Georgetown, vs most other colleges including Cornell?? Maybe this is wrong.
Cornell undoubtedly has more New Yorkers.
Some programs at each school are relatively strong or relatively weak.
These are aspects some people in your position might be thinking about.</p>
<p>thanks. that was helpful. anymore?</p>
<p>monydad,
Georgetown has a higher 4-year graduation rate by 3% and a (trivially) higher freshman retention rate. I just see that nearly everyone I know who goes there is settling and isn’t happy with Cornell and feels that it is too much work just for the name. I think Georgetown is manageable if you are good with time management, and I (and my friends who attended similar high schools) usually aren’t overwhelmed. It’s just my opinion, but I applied to both Georgetown and Cornell (not by choice). Cornell’s school of human ecology is appealing, but if you’re leaning towards business MSB would certainly be better.</p>
<p>I don;t even know where you’re getting 4 year graduation rate, as far as I know nobody’s citing them these days, it’s always the 6 year, because some people go off and do stuff, internships or whatever. Also there are some 5 year programs, architecture I believe… The 6 year rates are the same. They are very high, 93%.</p>
<p>Since you mentioned it, Cornell’s college of Human Ecology would indeed be appealing, for someone who wanted one of the programs of studies it offers. However, as far as I saw, nobody on this thread has said anything about it. it’s certainly not similar to a business school, I’ll grant you that. Unless something has changed a lot.</p>
<p>Though I guess the consumer economics program there mght be relevant.</p>