<p>Hey guys, I went to Notre Dame this past year and decided it wasn’t for me. I’ve been accepted to Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences and Brown for transfer next year, planning to major in either Chemistry (with a Pre-med focus) or Math/Economics (with a finance and econometrics focus).</p>
<p>I visited Cornell over the past week and thought it was incredible, but I didn’t get to meet many current students, so I don’t know all that much about student life there. Brown seems terrific as well, but I don’t really know much about it except that it seems academically less rigorous than Cornell (this makes it less appealing to me). Socially though, I don’t know much about either of these schools, so I’d be interested to hear thoughts from current students.</p>
<p>I plan on playing club tennis and maybe joining a cycling club. I am looking for a dynamic, well-rounded student body with lots of interests outside of class and an ability to let loose and party (in moderation). I am an athletic and sociable guy, though I see intellectual pursuits as my foremost passion.</p>
<p>Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks for reading.</p>
<p>I think Brown is a fit-- I posted on a response on the general page I’ll quote here:
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<p>I think “dynamic, well-rounded student body with lots of interests outside of class” is pretty much describing precisely the character of our student body. The “ability to let loose and party (in moderation)” is pretty much the only other thing I’d add to the first half of that sentence.</p>
<p>You really should visit Brown as well. As a Cornell grad, I’ve since learned that smaller schools are generally a better learning experience. But you might think otherwise. Still I think Brown might be the better bet. Congrats–either way, you can’t go wrong.</p>
<p>I think you would find fitting in at cornell would be easier simply because there will be so many other transfers in the same situation as you, whereas brown has far fewer. Brown’s ‘smaller community’ means nothing.</p>
<p>Compared to most other Ivies, Cornell is huge. For the most part, all Cornell undergrads are mixed together academically for most of their classes the first two years, then they start to segregate by Undergraduate College and by major the final two years. Of course there are exceptions (Hotel and Architecture schools, for example). I think Cornell CAS has about 5-6k undergrads alone.</p>