<p>So I'm going to be a sophomore-a transfer student from Cornell. I'm just curious, what's the ****ty beer of choice at W&M? I don't know if I can stomach another keystone.</p>
<p>Natty light</p>
<p>BTW (as someone who was very interested in Cornell as an applicant for freshman admission last year), may I ask why you decided to transfer despite success there?</p>
<p>Well, honestly I wouldn’t have gone to Cornell in the first place if Bowdoin or Middlebury had given me more money. Cornell’s flaws (for me):
-the town’s not great. Lacks the charm of a small town, and the fun/excitement of a legit city. Sort of takes the cons of both extremes without the pros.
-the classes are HUGE.
-there are too many premeds, so people end up secretly hating one another. (Hotelies are happy, though).
-The weather is obviously awful.
-The school is pretty a few weeks out of the year, but only the beginning and end, when the weather is nice. Mostly it’s just depressing.
-The anti-suicide fences kill the scenery of the gorges.
-The school’s too large.
-going into town to get something is a huge pain without a car. </p>
<p>On a more personal note, my frat got shut down so I wouldn’t have had housing next year.</p>
<p>It’s perfectly ok to prefer a different size school in a warmer climate, with hopefully less perceived competition on the premed track. But just for the record, lest other people who google as I do be misled:</p>
<p>1) W&M winter weather is unquestionably better,however, just to be clear, average monthly temperatures in Ithaca NY, Middlebury, VT and Brunswick, ME are immaterially different from each other.</p>
<p>2) OP posted on CC about his plans to transfer before the fences were even put up. Presumably the fences will be replaced with a more permanent and more pleasing solution, when they figure it out. In the meantime, they are hardly a reason for anyone, including OP, to transfer.</p>
<p>3) Not everyone loves Ithaca, however many do. It depends to an extent on what you like to do. Bus service is just fine as far as that goes,for getting downtown & a mall. But a car will always be more convenient, and is really needed to reach the environs and other points of interest . Frankly I’m surprised OP had much time to worry about Ithaca, as a freshman I pretty much had enough to do right in and around campus. I really only came to appreciate the ithaca area as an upperclassman, with a car. It’s particularly nice in the summer, everyone who attends should spend a summer there.</p>
<p>Too bad OP is leaving having experienced only the worst of it. As with most universities, things get better when it is made functionally smaller, via living arrangements (too bad about the frat) and advanced courses into the major.</p>
<p>But again, there is nothing wrong with preferring a different environment. There are other cases on CC where someone attended when they really didn’t want that in the first place, and they too were predictably unhappy with it. A cautionary tale, perhaps.</p>
<p>BTW my D2 is there now, haviing a great time, not secretly hating anyone so far as I know, and loving Ithaca. To each their own.</p>
<p>monydad, what a great post! So often on the individual school forums, whenever a student or parent posts a comparison of two schools, the response is argumentative or, worse, insulting about one college or the other. Your response sets a great example for all of us who have our favorite schools - it’s not necessary to beat another school into the ground on the boards. Mileage will inevitably vary.</p>
<p>Cornell is obviously an outstanding school with terrifically talented students and many opportunities for them. ( W & M too, of course. :)) Not everyone will be happy there, or in Williamsburg, or in New Haven or Boston or Charlottesville or Ann Arbor, either.</p>
<p>And to the OP - newyork09’s answer must be right, since both my ds who have attended immediately answered the same way when I read them your question. :)</p>
<p>I’m a fan of Miller High Life</p>