<p>Hey guys!
I've been accepted too both UPenn and Cornell for the class of 2015!
Now that it's time choose where to go I am too perplexed to decide where to go. So I was hoping you could help me out.
I got into the College of Arts and Sciences at both schools.
My Major - Math/Applied Math/Financial Math.</p>
<p>Please let me know which can be a better option for me!
I also got into Berkeley, Duke, UChicago, UCLA, UCSD and BU. But I think I wanna go Ivy after all.</p>
<p>Congrats missaray on your wonderful choices. I’m at student at Cornell’s CAS, and love my experience here. CAS provides an outstanding liberal arts education. I also benefit from my ability to take any of more than 2000 courses offered in the other schools at Cornell. The campus is gorgeous, and Ithaca is the best college town in America Come up and visit!</p>
<p>wharton is irrelevant. to a certain degree, ranking isn’t relevant either.</p>
<p>you see, both penn and cornell are top tier institutions and as somebody making a decision, you should not be asking, “which has a higher ranking?” or “which has a better education?” because in the end, they’re basically of the same/similar quality.</p>
<p>i recommend you visit both and decide based on factors like: school size, environment, people, etc.</p>
<p>cornell cas is in no way below penn cas
The cities/ wharton may give you more opportunities if you are interested in finance, so choose upenn if you want that. If you want to strictly study math, Cornell is the better choice. Cornell has a phenomenal math and dept, but considering the wharton / city opportunities, it’s a tossup. Just choose the one where you would like to go to college and spend your life at more :)</p>
<p>I had the same choice as you missaray, and I chose Cornell. For me, the visit was determinative. I can’t imagine a better place to have a classic college experience than on the Cornell campus in Ithaca.</p>
<p>you need to visit both schools, the schools are in very different settings so see which you prefer. They are both great schools and you can’t go wrong with either.</p>
<p>I attended both schools, one for undergrad and one for grad school. The settings could not be more different. Cornell is in a town that’s not too near anything, but has a wonderful college town vibe, and 26,000 college students in residence, between Ithaca College and Cornell. Fresh air, natural beauty. You cross bridges over waterfalls on your way to class. It’s also more oriented toward undergraduates, in my opinion. I found the students to be very down to earth and interested in many things.</p>
<p>Penn is in West Philadelphia, and no matter how they try to spin that (and they do try), it’s not a very nice or safe area. On campus it’s OK, but off campus it gets sketchy. The campus is within walking distance of the Amtrak station which makes it easy to get to NYC, Washington, etc., which could be a plus. I also believe the culture at Penn is dominated by Wharton. This may not be a negative for you, but it is something to consider. It leads to quite a preprofessional mindset. I coached a team of undergrads while I was there, and found them to be very bright, interesting people; I would say they were perhaps more sophisticated and cynical than the people I knew at Cornell.</p>
<p>I love Penn’s president, Amy Gutman. She seems to be very charismatic and is great at articulating what makes Penn wonderful.</p>
<p>If you visit both campuses, it will be very clear which is for you.</p>
<p>My daughter is a graduating senior, and she is double majore in math and econ (and a minor in gender studies). In four years at Cornell, she didn’t feel “over shadowed” by AEM students. When it came time to interview for finance jobs, she wasn’t at a disadvantage relative to AEM students either. She was allowed to take finance couses at AEM, and she is currently the head TA for one of those courses. </p>
<p>Speak with some UPenn A&S students who want to go into finance, see if they have the same opportunity as Wharton students.</p>