<p>Which one would you pick/suggest for business? (Econ at Northwestern obviously)</p>
<p>I would suggest Cornell.</p>
<p>Northwestern.</p>
<p>All good choices. Where do you prefer to be? Midwest? East? How large / small of a school do you want? How important are big-name athletics to you? Do you want / care about a Greek life? Do you care about the religiosity of the school / your classmates? Personally I’d put Cornell & Northwestern on one end (more similar to one another) and ND on another, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>Chicago vs Ithaca…</p>
<p>Choose based on city, eliminate ND</p>
<p>For me it would be Northwestern…
But if you don’t mind being in a very rural area (famous for being empty)…than Cornell!</p>
<p>Cornell is famous for being empty? Makes me wonder what your definition of empty is.</p>
<p>I was in this same exact position nine years ago. I chose Cornell… the campus was just more dynamic and exciting. All sorts of really neat and diverse things going on. I don’t regret the decision in the slightest, although sometimes I wonder if I would be already married if I had attended Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Cornell’s campus is more dynamic than Northwestern’s? In what universe?</p>
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<p>In the real one?</p>
<p>Last time I checked, there were twice as many undergraduates at Cornell than at Northwestern. Cornell also offers programs in architecture, agriculture, hotel management, undergraduate business, natural resources, etc. that Northwestern really can’t match. </p>
<p>The only programs that Northwestern offers which Cornell doesn’t match is journalism and theatre, but even then, Cornell has a great daily student newspaper and a respectable performing arts scene.</p>
<p>Cornell is also more diverse than Northwestern in terms of socioeconomic diversity, etc. And curiously, Cornell’s relationship with the state of New York almost makes it more of a Big 10 school than Northwestern… our hockey, wrestling, and basketball programs were amazing this year.</p>
<p>Northwestern is a great school. I had three friends who attended it as undergrads and I have very fond memories of celebrating New Year’s 2005 in Evanston. But to act astounded over the suggestion that Cornell is more of a dynamic and diverse school than Northwestern is a bit much.</p>
<p>I was willing to humour your point until “Cornell’s relationship with the state of New York almost makes it more of a Big 10 school than Northwestern… our hockey, wrestling, and basketball programs were amazing this year.”</p>
<p>I’m from NY- so I’ll give you Cornell is more of a Big Ten school in that it’s more of a safety for people in it’s state, I’ll give you that. But seriously, comparing NU sports to Cornell sports just proves you’re insane. I’ll give you your hockey was great, and I was impressed by the basketball this year, but seriously, get a reality check.</p>
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<p>Oy vey. For a guy who goes to a school with 23% acceptance rate and <30% yield rate, you sure are arrogant.</p>
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<p>What sports are you guys proud of, again? Women’s lacrosse?</p>
<p>Really, this sort of juvenile behavior just reflects badly on the NU student body. Instead of providing some real information you resort to “safety school” shenanigans and making statements without anything to back them up. Not to mention, of course, you totally ignored the rest of Cayuga’s argument. Classy.</p>
<p>I would choose Northwestern all things being equal, but I would opt for the best financial package. These are all great choices. Oh and Cornell is not a “safety” that’s ridiculous.</p>
<p>I disagree with post #5 that says to choose based only on city. Obviously that may be a large, or small, consideration for you, but I think the choice of school should involve much more than city.</p>
<p>ND has the Mendoza School of Business. It’s incredible. They were just ranked #1, if you’re into rankings.</p>
<p>Go to the ND forum. I believe there is a fairly recent thread(s) regarding the business school. There is also a thread comparing ND to Northwestern.</p>
<p>Businessweek’s rankings are a complete joke. NU=Cornell>ND</p>
<p>I am into athletics. I probably wouldn’t go to all the games, but at least half. I would like a legit social scene as well (not studying all the time) Location isn’t much of an issue, but I don’t think I would like to be around a ton of people at the same time.</p>
<p>Definitely Cornell.</p>
<p>I go to Cornell but am from the evanston area and have done research at northwestern. Ithaca and Evanston are great college towns, but I think at Cornell life is centralized on campus and northwestern life is spread out around evanston, if a true campus feeling matters to you. </p>
<p>For social life, I’d say Cornell and NU are similar. Greek scene–>house parties–>bars is the typical social progression at both. But like the campus central life at Cornell, bars are also centralized in collegetown. NU the few bars there are for a town evanston’s size (as Evanston is the founding place of the Temperance movement, the limited number of alcohol establishments is built into its history), people often spread out into Chicago. </p>
<p>Sports at Cornell are really awesome…people really do support our teams (especially hockey, basketball and lacrosse). Having also been to a few NU basketball and football games, I can’t say the same about NU school support. And as Cayuga mentioned, wrestling is #2 in the nation. If you look at all the other schools in the top 10, every single one of them is a big public university (mostly big 10 or big 12), so if that doesn’t tell you something about Cornell Athletics (which I hope is already know, but i’ll mention anyway, has no athletic scholarships), I don’t know what is. What NU team other than Women’s Lacrosse (their dynasty is awesome, I have to say) has made it far in NCAA tournaments? Within the past year, Cornell has 3 national runners up (that come to my mind immediately)</p>
<p>Aside from athletics, the AEM program at Cornell is heavily recruited by all sorts of companies and is also incredibly diverse. You’ve got people who want to go into finance, marketing, but also things like agri-business. You just don’t get that at NU. And this speaks to the diversity at Cornell as a whole…there are all sorts of people at Cornell from a wide variety of backgrounds which adds to your experience as a whole.</p>
<p>Though, to be fair, I sort of expect basketball support in Cornell to go back to nonexistent in 2-3 years considering Donahue and our top 3 players will be gone soon.</p>
<p>OP, since NU and Cornell are so far apart, which is closer to your home? is that an issue , ease of getting home for whatever reason?</p>