<p>can you really say how hot the girls are at a college, when you get a new class every year?</p>
<p>choose harvard. Are you planning on working in the U.S. you might want to choose the place that will have the biggest cache for employment, unless you plan to work in Canada. put it this way if you want women, think of the job you may have in four years that will help you attract women. once you return to the U.S and try to pick a woman, most likely she will say "McGill who?"</p>
<p>With all due respect, Mcgill is a great university but with regard to selectivity, it is no where near Cornell and Harvard. Four people in my class were accepted at Mcgill but were rejected at schools like BC, Villanova, Bucknell, etc. Although these are all great schools, they aren't Harvard or Cornell. Keep in mind that I'm not taking prestige into account.</p>
<p>dude go with harvard. Harvard is harvard enough said.</p>
<p>I really hope you're not being serious. What a waste of opportunity... </p>
<p>If you are, in fact, being serious, I agree with whoever suggested just going to some cheap, local school. You might as well; you can party and find hot girls almost anywhere, if that's all you care about. Your priorities are a little messed up, just a tad.</p>
<p>PS- I'd also go with Harvard...because it's HARVARD. Seriously?!</p>
<p>CC drool factor aside, Harvard undergrad isn't that great. If you're looking for the best education and not just the best name drop, it's really about personal fit with these three schools. Harvard's old, cramped campus could not begin to compare to Cornell's majesty (imo), but you will generally work harder at Cornell for your grades in most programs. So, is the harder work versus the lower name recognition worth it? That's your call.</p>
<p>Mcgill is not even close to Cornell or Harvard</p>
<p>I attended McGill for the 2004-2005 school year.</p>
<p>McGill is a great place to be. That said, it must be understood that McGill is a serious university with a focus on academics. Students usually have to work hard to keep up with the workload. Also, even if you get into McGill, you need to meet their high standards to stay in. Overall, this doesn't leave much time for "partying."</p>
<p>If attractiveness of women is a consideration, McGill women indeed tend to be attractive. But they're not that much more attractive than you'll find in NYC or Boston, so comparatively, it's a wash.</p>
<p>what about dont go to any of those schools at all, just party and girl until drop dead</p>
<p>ddzai has a good point...but....</p>
<p>McGill is every bit as good as Cornell. And the women of NYC & Boston are not even close to those in Montreal. N O T E V E N C L O S E.</p>
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can you really say how hot the girls are at a college, when you get a new class every year?
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Sure, I think there are some aspects of a schools that can attract the more attractive girls. Just to give an example, I think the more sports-oriented schools tend to attract the more attractive girls because the more attractive girls usually place a higher priority on staying fit.</p>
<p>Sigh...go to Harvard.</p>
<p>At some point the preconceptions that 'every college is just as good' becomes just as silly as the 'Ivy-Ivy-Ivy' mentality.</p>
<p>By the way as a McGill student transferring out, I can assure you that its nothing to write home about. Its a good college yes, but I wouldn't compare it to Harvard. </p>
<p>And from what I've gathered, depending on how much exactly and what you major in, a harvard degree pays for itself pretty quickly.</p>
<p>If you like rural, Cornell.</p>
<p>If you like canadians and urban, McGill.</p>
<p>Harvard is teh suxx0rz.</p>
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Sigh...go to Harvard.</p>
<p>At some point the preconceptions that 'every college is just as good' becomes just as silly as the 'Ivy-Ivy-Ivy' mentality.</p>
<p>And from what I've gathered, depending on how much exactly and what you major in, a harvard degree pays for itself pretty quickly.
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<p>Now hold on with the free-pass stereotype. I've studied at both Cornell (ugrad) and Harvard. I am SO happy I went to Cornell undergrad. In my opinion, the energy and culture of Harvard's campus is oppressive; its buildings are old and rather shoddy feeling; I didn't personally find the education to be any better.</p>
<p>Cornell's campus is gorgeous; its research/educational facilities as good as any others in that realm; Ithaca is a wonderfully quirky little city perfectly fit for isolated academic contemplation; its campus is diverse and eclectic in a way that really allowed me to expand my horizons beyond the private prep school culture in which I was raised. </p>
<p>I'm just telling you my personal experience to demonstrate that the answer isn't always Harvard. I took several people who'd never been to Harvard before through the campus and they were all overwhelmingly unimpressed. I, personally, would not have grown as much doing undergrad there. Others would certainly have different experiences and for them Harvard is the best option. I'm not knocking Harvard as an institution. It provides incredible opportunities and has vast resources for students. Obviously, Harvard is more selective than either Cornell or McGill and has a much larger endowment. </p>
<p>But, at the end of the day, schools of the caliber this individual is choosing have to be decided on fit more than name-drop prestige recognition.</p>
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I'm just telling you my personal experience to demonstrate that the answer isn't always Harvard.
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<p>And I told mine as a McGill student, who experienced the college extensively and decided to transfer. It is certainly not of the 'caliber' I would expect Harvard to be. Maybe not your opinion but oh well. Remember what happens when you assume, mate.</p>
<p>Umm... I wasn't talking about McGill. I don't know anything about McGill.</p>
<p>You said "sigh... go to Harvard", which was saying that it is the obvious choice out of all three. I only said that it is not necessarily for every individual.</p>
<p>I'm biased.... but I've studied at both, I'm a Cornell alum and I have taken classes at Harvard as a "special student" status.</p>
<p>Harvard is a research institution that just so happens to have undergraduates.</p>
<p>Cornell is a research institution that revolves itself around educating undergraduates.</p>
<p>That said, at Harvard, the undergraduates do a pretty good job educating themselves. Institutions like the Lampoon, the Crimson, Hasty Pudding, all basically put most any other college to shame. The only school that may be able to rival it is Oxbridge.</p>
<p>Even then, all of my friends and colleagues who went to Harvard don't have the best things to say about their undergraduate time there. </p>
<p>But I'll be point blank in saying that, yes, on average, the Harvard kids are smarter, more worldly, and better connected than the Cornell kids. But if you want a down to earth undergraduate experience combined with top notch academics in an idyllic setting, Cornell shouldn't be overlooked.</p>
<p>I don't think McGill can offer quite the same education as Harvard and Cornell...
--first of all, McGill is BIG. A lot of freshman courses will have 600 students, whereas Harvard and especially Cornell put an emphasis on small class sizes and personalized prof-student attention.</p>
<p>--McGill certainly has its share of brilliant students, but it has essentially no campus life...few students live in dorms, ever, and I think that kind of limits interactions between students. Montreal is a fantastic city, but I think the campus life at a place like Cornell more than makes up for its rural location! You'll spend a lot more time immersed in life with your amazing peers at Cornell or Harvard than you would at McGill.</p>
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I don't think McGill can offer quite the same education as Harvard and Cornell...
--first of all, McGill is BIG. A lot of freshman courses will have 600 students, whereas Harvard and especially Cornell put an emphasis on small class sizes and personalized prof-student attention.
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<p>You would be surprised. Cornell and Harvard have a lot of 200 + person intro classes.</p>
<p>But yes, the campus environment in Ithaca and Cambridge is much more self-contained. McGill is closer to a Northeastern.</p>
<p>This one is for applejack...What did you study??? I am an aspiring, international pre med and I was considering to do my undergrad in either Harvard or Cornell, and med school in Harvard. I have other college options but Harvard and Cornell are the ones I like best. Yet, Cornell has just the academic program I was looking for (Human Biology, Health and Society), and Harvard, well, as they say, its Harvard, and plus, it offers you so many opportunities, and it seems to be such a great school that I am scared of rejecting Harvard (if I get accepted) and then end up regreting it. Is it really that different? What was your experience as a student in both schools? I really would like to know.</p>