<p>These three schools are 1 (Penn, ED), 2 (Cornell) and 3 (Northwestern) on my college list right now, yet I feel like there is still alot I don't know about each of these schools (save Penn). Ive researched the academics pretty thoroughly and each of these schools offers exactly what I am looking for (Penn moreso than the other two). But I don't know too much about the social lives of students at each of these schools. Here are some questions I have:</p>
<p>Which school is the most Greek oriented?
Which school has the most active social life?
Which school has the most attractive student body (vain, I know)?
Which school is overall the most fun?</p>
<p>One more unrelated question:</p>
<p>How well are Penn CAS/Cornell/Northwestern recruited by Investment Banking firms?</p>
<p>Cornell has more than 60 Greek houses, and about 30 percent of the population goes Greek. So there are a lot of choices available to you if joining a fraternity or sorority is what you want.</p>
<p>I can't say that I know much about Cornell--SimbaJune55 might be able to help you out with a description.</p>
<p>When looking at schools, I found Penn and Northwestern very similar academically--chose NU because I preferred Chicago to Philly.</p>
<p>Which school is the most Greek oriented? ...Northwestern, I believe.
Which school has the most active social life? ...Not sure; however, I imagine that Cornell does because of it's location.
Which school has the most attractive student body (vain, I know)? ...Girls? I'm going with NU, (very pleasant in that regard.) Guys? I'm not sure.
Which school is overall the most fun? Depends if you prefer city fun (Penn and Philly; NU and Chitown;) or country fun (Cornell.)</p>
<p>All very well recruited by iBanking firms... Sam Lee, don't you have these numbers?</p>
<p>Which school is the most Greek oriented? - Northwestern
Which school has the most attractive student body (vain, I know)? - definitely not penn</p>
<p>penn is supposed to be the party school of the ivy league, northwestern is supposed to be the nerd school of the big ten, what that means in comparison to each other i don't know haha, maybe that they're equal?</p>
<p>Penn is obviously the leader in IB recruitment due to Wharton. Penn and Cornell both have a big party scene- usually Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Penn and Northwestern have the resources of a large city at their disposal while Cornell is quite isolated. There is plenty to do in Ithaca, though, and it is a beautiful area. The winters are pretty dreary, but Chicago and Philadelphia are not exactly garden spots, either. Cornell is supposed to be very demanding once you are in- possibly a little easier to get in than Penn, but really tough workload. Northwestern has a fun athletic conference- especially for basketball-and the other two are the Ivy League, which has some really heavily supported sports (ice hockey at Cornell, especially), but not quite the same.</p>
<p>I think all three of them are relatively similar other than location - high Greek %, relatively social, similar academics (other than Wharton). If you get into any of them you did very well, and if you get into all 3, just visit and see which one you like best.</p>
<p>thanks for the responses so far! I dont think I fully realized how similar all of those schools were socially, although I probably should have assumed this based on the similarities of the student body. </p>
<p>And when I talk about attractiveness, I meant of the female population. It's pretty bad that I actually consider this when picking a school lol.</p>
<p>they aren't actually all that similar in reality, just in the fact that they all have large greek systems and have good academics and also party a fair amount.</p>
<p>If you visited them or spent a weekend, you'd actually see they more different, this distinction would probably be especially apparent in the east coast/midwest divide between cornell/penn and northwestern</p>
<p>I BADLY wanted to go to Upenn, applied ED, deferred, and rejected</p>
<p>i didnt get in as a transfer either</p>
<p>i got into Cornell and Northwestern though as a freshmna</p>
<p>i went to Cornell, and then transferred to Northwestern, so I am rather familiar with NU and Cornell very well....</p>
<p>girls: definetely Northwestern</p>
<p>social scence (this is a shocker!!!! to most ppl, i will have to say Cornell bc most ppl at NU go off to chicago and there isnt much campus stuff to do bc of that big city access) and Chicago is not like Phili, its a much nicer city.</p>
<p>the rest, who knows</p>
<p>the peckin order should be
Penn
Northwestern\Cornell</p>
<p>Well, if you don't want to run off of assumptions by people on a public college forum, Cornell has the second largest greek scene in the country, behind (I believe) Ohio. I dont know if this is largest greek system per capita or in sheer numbers, but i'll look for where it says so online sometime. </p>
<p>I'd say-
Cornell
Penn
NU</p>
<p>even though Penn is in a big city, it's in a really crappy part. I did a bike race there last spring and got a flat after I rode over a hypodermic needle! Yuck!!</p>
<p>"even though Penn is in a big city, it's in a really crappy part. I did a bike race there last spring and got a flat after I rode over a hypodermic needle! Yuck!!"</p>
<p>OMFG!!!!!!!!! Did you care to think that maybe you ran over a needle because there are like, two hospitals on Penn's campus? In any case, big deal: it's a city.</p>
<p>Penn's campus itself is really nice. And it's like a 20-minute walk downtown (I do it all the time) or an 8-minute cab ride. Any of the bad parts are places that no student would go to anyways.</p>
<p>I'd rather have the option of a city and an active campus than no city and an active campus. Not to mention Philly is a great student city.</p>
<p>ok, must be in sheer numbers then. Not sure where to find actual numbers, unless you want me to cite a paper that a professor here did. I'm just not sure if it's available online. They tend to be pretty correct about things. </p>
<p>SO, Cornell has largest greek system of the 3.</p>
<p>" OMFG!!!!!!!!! Did you care to think that maybe you ran over a needle because there are like, two hospitals on Penn's campus?"</p>
<p>yes, the surrounding area was not conducive to an image of heathcare, rather the opposite. It was VERY sketchy, and right next to campus. Besides, I'm sure you know that hospitals HAVE to dispose of needles in certain boxes, for health reasons.</p>
<p>"I'd rather have the option of a city and an active campus than no city and an active campus. "</p>
<p>Going through kid #2's college search, and what I keep seeing is that it's not that easy to get the first choice. Because the schools near/in an active city tend to have less active campus lives, as per post #10 above.</p>
<p>In many cases either the big-city "escape route" is relatively lacking or the campus life is relatively lacking.</p>
<p>i'd go for campus life. You have to be a college student to enjoy big-time campus life since you obviously can't do it when you're 40. You'll most likely have to work in a city when you graduate, so enjoy the college experience while you can, it's just 4 short years of your life.</p>
<p>yeah i'm sure cornell has in sheer numbers a lot of greeks, big school with such a high percentage of greek students.</p>
<p>And yeah, the hypodermic needle thing, hospitals don't exactly just sweep them out into the street, they have biomedical waste disposal systems.</p>
<p>Which school is the most Greek oriented? --northwestern
Which school has the most active social life? --upenn
Which school has the most attractive student body (vain, I know)? --northwestern
Which school is overall the most fun? --tie between northwestern and penn</p>
<p>Hey NyJeff06, we might as well be the same person. My top three schools are also Penn (ED), NU, and Cornell, and I'm also interestd in investment banking. In terms of recruitment Penn/wharton is best, but I believe that Penn/college w/ a econ. degree may also be good. Are you applying to the College or Wharton ?. As fo NU and Cornell, both schools are also heavily recruited. Check out Vault.com for more info. I have also visited all of these schools, and being from Michigan, know alot of kids at NU.
NU is the most greek
NU is the most attractive (girls) - I was surprised at how attractive they actually were - much higher than I expected.</p>
<p>These three schools are 1 (Penn, ED), 2 (Cornell) and 3 (Northwestern) on my college list right now, yet I feel like there is still alot I don't know about each of these schools (save Penn). Ive researched the academics pretty thoroughly and each of these schools offers exactly what I am looking for (Penn moreso than the other two). But I don't know too much about the social lives of students at each of these schools. Here are some questions I have:</p>
<p>Which school is the most Greek oriented?
Which school has the most active social life?
Which school has the most attractive student body (vain, I know)?
Which school is overall the most fun?</p>
<p>One more unrelated question:</p>
<p>How well are Penn CAS/Cornell/Northwestern recruited by Investment Banking firms?</p>