<p>Hi everyone! I would like all of your opinions on which university you feel is better and why. I know they are completely different schools but I my parents will only let me apply to one of them.
Which one has more to offer?
I am interested in studying math, engineering, and or business...
I also want to be in a college town but not right in the middle of a busy city
Thanks!</p>
<p>If you are set on engineering Cornell. If you prefer rural setting, Cornell. </p>
<p>Both are strong in math (though Cornell probably has the edge) and business. </p>
<p>Georgetown is a vibrant college town a bit set apart from DC but still has an urban feel to it.</p>
<p>Georgetown is better for me because:</p>
<ol>
<li> The educational philosophy focuses on developing the whole person - mind, body, spirit.</li>
<li> Relatively small student body, but with the resources and opportunities of a large university.</li>
<li> DC is warmer than Ithaca. Winter comes later and Spring comes sooner. Shorts in November.</li>
<li> No fraternities or sororities - hence more inclusive social life.</li>
<li> Don’t have to wait for summer to have an internship in DC.</li>
<li> Elite basketball team. (Although Cornell had a good run in 2010).</li>
<li> Small classes taught by professors rather than graduate students.</li>
<li> if i wanted an ivy league school i would prefer princeton or dartmouth.</li>
<li> fewer new yorkers than Cornell.</li>
<li>3 major airports including two international airports.</li>
<li>4 hours from NYC and 4 hours from the outerbanks of north carolina.</li>
<li>huge network in dc (federal reserve bank, world bank, imf, state department, capitol hill) as well as a wall street feeder school.</li>
<li>supportive and active alumni network.</li>
<li>fantastic on-campus speakers due to DC location</li>
<li>I am not studying engineering.</li>
<li>students work hard and play hard.</li>
<li>collaborative i.e. not cut-throat student body.</li>
<li>The Tombs.</li>
<li>In DC you literally witness history (good and bad). Presidential inaugurations, government shutdowns, World Bank/imf annual meetings, etc.</li>
<li>Amazingly diverse alumni.</li>
<li>School spirit.</li>
<li>Longer history. G’town founded in 1789 and greater tradition.</li>
<li>Classmates are literally future world leaders (ambassadors, prime ministers, gov’t ministers, etc.)</li>
<li>Walled campus tucked in the most prestigious residential neighborhood of the nation’s capital.</li>
<li>there is a business school.</li>
<li>the smithsonian museums are free and homework involves visiting them.</li>
<li>class reunions are comprised not only of doctors, lawyers, journalists, military officers and bankers, but also NBA basketball players, hollywood actors,jesuit priests, and professional wrestlers.</li>
<li>the school prepares students for life in a globalized world.</li>
<li>the school has a unique identity.</li>
<li>hoya is a cooler nickname than big red.</li>
<li>i am not that big of a hockey fan.</li>
<li>of the focus on undergraduate education.</li>
<li>of the benefits of being near a major city including: Concerts, the arts, restaurants, professional sports.</li>
</ol>
<p>If you want to do engineering, go to Cornell.</p>
<p>have you visited both schools?</p>
<p>nope haven’t visited either!
I have been in the Gtown area though and absolutely love it.
Although I have been to New York, I have only been in NYC and I think there is a big difference between that and Ithaca! correct me if I’m wrong!</p>
<p>If you want to study engineering one of the only ways you can do it at Georgetown is with the 3-2 or 4-2 program with Columbia University. This is the first dual degree engineering program in the US.</p>
<p>[Science</a> and Engineering - Georgetown College](<a href=“http://college.georgetown.edu/programs/majors/43472.html]Science”>http://college.georgetown.edu/programs/majors/43472.html)</p>
<p>otherwise </p>
<p>Cornell has a fantastic engineering program.</p>
<p>Overall, I think Georgetown offers everything that you want, and more importantly gives you option to study business, math, engineering or some combination of these. Plus, you love the Georgetown area. However, the be fair you may want to visit Cornell.</p>
<p>And Cornell has a high suicide rate…</p>
<p>1789: you listed many of the reasons that make Georgetown unique and cooler than even Harvard or Yale! 
--Especially the “whole person” philosophy of the school and its open-minded spiritual character. Not to mention the Jesuit intellectual and scholastic tradition goes back even further than the 1600/1700s.</p>