<p>I have only ever met one person who goes to Cornell, and he was kind of a dick, but i dont imagine that he was a representative sample.
However, its strange that the friendliness of everybody at NU was what won me over completely to wanting to go to the school. I sat in on a class with 8 people in it. The prof took about 10 minutes afterward to talk to me about the school, and several of the students, after I told them I was deciding between NU and UofC, were more than happy to talk to me about why they loved NU and why I would love it there.
I sat in on a class in Medill too, the prof talked to me for about an hour as the students worked on their quarter projects, and all of the students too were very friendly and open and willing to show me their work and ask me about where I come from and so on. </p>
<p>In all, students at NU seem much more social and friendly than students at any other university i looked at. Of course, that didn't include cornell, so I cant offer much of a comparison, but yeah, thats my two cents on one side of the story.</p>
<p>I don't know much about Cornell, but you keep mentioning that the people at Cornell are much nicer. That may have been the case when you visited each school but that seems a little unfair to make a judgement like that based off one visit. So unless the impressions you had about the attitudes of people at each school are really that strong, then it seems more like your just giving yourself another reason to choose Cornell over Northwestern.</p>
<p>That's too bad. My hosts were awesome and I cannot wait to be back around people as exciting and motivated as them. I guess that first impression really makes the difference for most people.</p>
<p>"LOL! Talking about being in denial! The rest of the post is just as trashy and misleading. Pretty much everyone thinks the part of Evanston where NU is located is nice, clean and fairly upscale; elevanblanks, let's be honest, would you? People here look for meaningful info, NOT your grossly distorted description." - Sam Lee</p>
<p>I said it was my personal opinion. I like NU, which you would know if you read my post. I had a tough time choosing, and those things listed were what made my decision. By the way, I'm glad you took the time to call my post "trashy", it made you look really smart.</p>
<p>my host was terrible too... an engineering student from nebraska, I dont know why they paired him up with a journalism student from san francisco... but anyways, after I found him and he pointed me towards the dining hall, I didnt see him again until 1 AM. Fortunately, for me, I got to hang out with a bunch of people my brother introduced me to in teh meantime (hes a current student)... and I hung around with a group of other prospies I met who were staying in the same dorm.
We hung out in the basement of Norris, watched the awesome talent show thing, walked around to other dorms, they all seemed like awesome people.
I can understand that your bad experience just leaves a bad taste in your mouth every time you think of the place, and that will serve as some sort of subconcious aversion factor, but oh well. </p>
<p>Im with Sawd, the excitement and incredible motivation of the students at NU were the sellling point for me.</p>
<p>How would I know your post was trashy without reading it? Smartie.</p>
<p>By the way, you confused the difference between "personal opinion" and "distorted BS". I am not the only one here that thought you were BSing either. You said NU "always loses in football and basketball". Well, the record showed your statement is far from the truth; your little opinion doesn't change its W/L record, does it??? That's not "opinion" but false information. By the way, Howard station is more than 2 miles away from NU campus. If you have some brain, you should know whatever happens that far tells nothing about NU campus. Here in LA, the middle-class Hollywood is 2 miles from Beverly Hills where a house can worth 10 acres of land in Ithaca! LOL! Can't believe you were sweating for such minor thing.</p>
<p>TheCity...I was not trolling. It is just that I used to live in Highland Park (a little more north than Evanston) and it was for sure not that cold. I kind of took it as an insult against my hometown. I actually felt that you were trolling. by calling Evanston "Cold as hell." Then again, you are right...compared to California it probably is. I also moved to Green Bay, WI. a couple of years ago so Chicago is "way down south" for me. :) </p>
<p>Also...you can read other posts of mine...I am not one to usually go insulting others...I am sorry that you got a bad impression, but pointing out that I wrote "oxy moron" instead of "oxymoron" by mistake is kind of "trollish" wouldn't you say? It is possible that I could just have been in a bad mood that day...you don't have to go around questioning my character.</p>
<p>Ok , sorry...proabably sounded a bit mean...I just am not used to people calling me names I guess. </p>
<p>You are right about the lake effect, I was actually going to bring that up.</p>
<p>which school has inherently harder academics. I know that NU is on the quarter system, but I also hear that Cornell is the hardest Ivy to graduate from. Also, I believe Tech at NU is the most difficult school, and the enineering department is at Cornell is also pretty tuff(I might want to go into engineering). harder and better??</p>
<p>Again, the requoting of you calling my post "trashy", really really strengthened your argument. And for the record, I think you're a "smartie" too. Love and kisses.</p>
<p>whats up, Jenny
I thought long and hard about it and honestly when I woke up this morning I did not know which school I would rather go to. Though when I went to the post office today I brought a deposit check addressed to Cornell. I hope I made the right choice, lol
sorry that we're not going to be going to school together, but I'm sure you'll do great in Medill!</p>
<p>Billabonging, given the description of what you want out of college, I recommend Cornell. It has a better Computer Science program (yes, I know, you arenot sure what you want to major in, but it is a start) and given its relative isolation, the Cornell campus has a bit more of a community feel than Northwestern. But you cannot go wrong either way.</p>
<p>A quick note, my aunt and uncle, currently professors at the University of Michigan and residents of Ann Arbor, lived in Evanston for 10 years. She told me that her life in Evanston was AWESOME. She enjoyed living in Evanston almost as much as she enjoys living in Ann Arbor and that's saying a lot. So do not let anybody discourage you about Evanston. It is a nice suburb of my favorite city in North America. Chicago is AMAZING!!! And Evanston has, in my opinion, one of the top 10 restaurants in the nation! And Chicago itself has another 3 of the top 10 restaurants in the US. So within a 30 minute cab ride, you can dine at 4 of the top 10 restaurants in the country! To a food affectionado such as myself, that alone qualifies Northwestern as oneof the best places to go to school!!! hehe</p>
<p>hey Chris, I'm so happy for you!! seems like you've made the right choice for yourself congrats!! you'll be a tremendous asset to Cornell =] definitely catch you later!! oh, and yeah i was stoked about that quote...it's my claim to fame! LoL</p>