Penn CAS vs Cornell CAS

[LazyKid]

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However, I do think more high-end finance/consulting companies recruit at Penn… So you would have a better shot getting into one of these companies from Penn than from Cornell. For instance, McKinsey doesn’t even come to Cornell to do interviews – you have a very low chance at getting into McKinsey from Cornell (you won’t even be able to get an on-campus interview!). At least at Penn, you can do a resume drop and POSSIBLY get an interview.

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<p>Bain, Boston Consulting, along with McKinsey (which are big 3 consulting) didn’t even come to Cornell for interviews. Although, given the fact that getting an offer from one of those three companies is near impossible anyway, I wouldn’t make a college matriculation choice based on that.</p>

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Are there any stories of people determined to go into banking from high school, getting into an Ivy, and not being able to—and just ending up jobless?

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<p>There are career options outside of banking. Plenty of people go to grad schools, as well.</p>

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Its not just on this one basis, monydad. I have researched both schools extensively and am much much more satisfied with the overall experience Penn has to offer. Plus, I’m not very into the sciences or engineering, making Penn an even more logical choice.

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<p>You should go to Penn.</p>

[creacher]

<p>people at UPenn are nice. you have to be out going and ok with making a thousandths of friends. if you dont like too much social life, dont go to Penn. but if feel that you are going to major in busyness you should go there regardless. going to penn is more important than the degree it self. but if you are going to major in any kind of sciences go to cornell. it is more larger than penn and you dont attract too much attention to your self. this is most important for serious mathematical and physical scientists. but if that is not your thing then you should go to penn.
if it helps any- i love penn and i would love to go there. i went there and people were nice enough to let us in restricted areas and talk to us. but since i am going to major in astronomy i plan to go to cornell.</p>

[I_V]

<p>“more larger” … Seriously!</p>

[Colm]

<p>^ Plus, Cornell is not really “more larger than Penn” when you take each campus population as a whole. Undergrad combined with grad enrollment totals to roughly 21,000 students respectively at each university.</p>

[Doby]

<p>I also think that Cornell’s more larger campus sometimes distorts the perception of how large its student population is. At almost 800 acres, you can fit all of Brown (140 acres), Columbia (32), Harvard (210), and Penn (270) onto its campus.</p>

[Colm]

<p>Furthermore, Cornell owns the [Cornell</a> Plantations](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Plantations]Cornell”>Cornell Botanic Gardens - Wikipedia), which are the botanical gardens, arboretum, and nature preserves that are adjacent to Cornell’s main campus. The botanical gardens comprise 25 acres, the arboretum consists of 150 acres – and if you include the additional 40 nature preserves around Cornell, then the greater Plantations encompasses an additional 4,300 acres.</p>

[Tboonepickens]

<p>Just for Kicks from the Cornell Real Estate Website:</p>

<p>The central campus comprises about 745 acres. With the many farms, pastures, woodlands and natural areas, the total in Tompkins County is about 11,000 acres, or 4% of the county’s lands. Cornell owns 6,000 acres elsewhere in New York and another 2,000 acres across the country, for a total of 19,000 acres of land and buildings. The University also owns more than 420,000 acres of mineral rights, mostly in the central and southwestern states.</p>

[Tate220930]

<p>Just for clarification, my email from Penn CAS said that the acceptance rate was 9%.</p>

[mrunderdog]

<p>^ Yes it was 9% for CAS, I received the same email.</p>

[monydad]

<p>On another current thread, someone posted that was actually the RD acceptance rate, not total.</p>

[Colm]

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@Tboonepickens

Just for Kicks from the Cornell Real Estate Website:</p>

<p>The central campus comprises about 745 acres. With the many farms, pastures, woodlands and natural areas, the total in Tompkins County is about 11,000 acres, or 4% of the county’s lands. Cornell owns 6,000 acres elsewhere in New York and another 2,000 acres across the country, for a total of 19,000 acres of land and buildings. The University also owns more than 420,000 acres of mineral rights, mostly in the central and southwestern states.

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<p>That is quite interesting … and remarkable.</p>

[mrunderdog]

<p>@Moneydad: No, it specifically specified CAS, it was 9% total for CAS, the overall RD rate was 9.5%.</p>

[monydad]

<p>Penn alum 45 Percenter stated otherwise on another thread, go argue with him.</p>

<p>Of course if they would just posted data by college like Cornell does no argument would be necessary.</p>

[racersvm]

<p>I got an email from the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, as have all other acceptees. It said something like 9% for the College of Arts and Sciences. I think Penn accepts quite a bit to the Nursing school. That may inflate the numbers, but Wharton, CAS, and SEAS are very difficult to get into. I think Wharton may even be as difficult as HYPMS.</p>

[monydad]

<p>The relevant portion of 45 percenter’s post is as follows, if he’s mistaken talk to him:</p>

<p>“^ That means that the RD (spring) acceptance rate for the College was around 9%, and of course the general Penn RD acceptance rate was 9.5%. The College acceptance rate is generally pretty close to Penn’s general rate, so that the overall acceptance rate for the College (RD plus ED) was probably close to Penn’s overall acceptance rate of 12.3% this year.”</p>