<p>I'm a rising senior, currently applying to lower tier ivy league colleges such as cornell u. I'm aspiring to become a physician, but as I looked through cornell's common app supplement, I noticed that there are so many different colleges to which one can apply, but WHICH ONE APPLIES TO ME out of the following?</p>
<p>College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
College of Architecture/Art and Planning
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Engineering
School of Hotel Administration
College of Human Ecology
School of Industrial and Labor Relations</p>
<p>I know biology is focused through many departments, particularly </p>
<h1>College of Agriculture & Life Sciences</h1>
<p>see also New York State Agriculture Experiment Station</p>
<h1>College of Arts & Sciences</h1>
<h1>College of Engineering</h1>
<h1>College of Human Ecology</h1>
<p>but which one do I apply to in order to eventually major in medicine or does Cornell have no such undergraduate program?</p>
<p>Perhaps I need to know the definitions of each of these colleges and what they have to offer. If you know something, please post!!!</p>
<p>If you're going premed, you'll probably want Arts & Sciences, which is the more general liberal arts college. The others are more specialized and "technical".</p>
<p>hehe even ILR requires SAT IIs...thats weird i didnt know that about CALS...</p>
<p>a difference between CALS and CAS is that all CAS students have a language proficiency requirement...</p>
<p>heres what i would do...read up on the difference in the curriculum between CALS and CAS (see each college website) and determine which one is right for you...if you took spanish in high school and want to continue with it in college then go ahead and do CAS...although CALS is easier to get into for NY-state students...</p>
<p>Would it make any difference that I'm OOS, from Oregon State?</p>
<p>Btw, if I happen to pick the wrong colleges (you are required to select 2 on the common app supplement), can I switch out or am I stuck?</p>
<p>Another question for those who attend cornell undergrad--> can you give me a guideline of sorts to follow about applying to cornell while maximizing financial aid benefits based on either merit or need, merit preferred. The reason is that I don't want to burden my parents to pay for college. </p>
<p>Oh yes, here's a biggie: Is Cornell a good undergrad to go for Pre-med or in my case, a physician major? What are the statistical turnouts of matriculates who successfully got into medical school? Are other ivy leagues better (Columbia, UPenn-->does this place even have pre-med???, Dartmouth)? </p>
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<li><p>Cornell, like the other Ivy League colleges, do not offer merit aid.</p></li>
<li><p>Most schools don't have a "premed" or "medicine" major. You won't find such majors at any of the other Ivy colleges nor will you find this major at 95% of the colleges in the US. You can literally major in anything (from art history to bio to business to engineering) and still be "premed." That's because you only need to take 4-5 classes (intro bio, gen chem, gen physics, and organic chem) on top of what your major requires in order to apply to med school. </p></li>
<li><p>The pure bio majors in CALS and CAS are exactly the same. You take the same courses and fulfill the same requirements. The only difference is in the general education requirements of each college. For example, CALS requires oral/written communication while CAS, being the liberal arts college, has a host of liberal arts requirements.</p></li>
<li><p>Medical school acceptance rates tend to be very inaccurate and easily manipulable. Most colleges choose not to publish such information. Your chances of getting into med school will depend entirely on yourself. Your college can help you by providing research opportunities, a great academic environment, supportive recommendation letters, good premed advising, clinical/volunteer opportunities, etc. This is found at all top colleges so it's impossible to say whether one Ivy League college is better than another at premed.</p></li>
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<p>Can you explain more in-depth about these two colleges and which one is more preferable? Since CALS deals with agriculture, do students actually have to go outside and plant produce or analyze something like that? And by liberal arts requirements, what specifically do you mean? </p>
<p>Everyone else's opinions are also appreciated and links too! </p>
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<li><p>do a little research about the different colleges yourself. we all had to do it</p></li>
<li><p>"lower tier ivies"? *** if you want to go to cornell, you should have a better attitude about it, godforbid you get in and have to <em>gasp</em> tell people that you got accepted</p></li>
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<p>Personally, I'm applying to HumEc.
It's got a really awesome humanities/science feel to it and is extremely unique.
Also, only 1/3 of the credits you need to graduate in HumEc have to be within HumEc, meaning you can major/minor outside of the college and take classes in whatever other colleges you'd like
and HumEc is very strong in terms of premed, its HBHS major is essentially a pre-med major in itself</p>
<p>I searched cornell.edu to find more information. Unfortunately I didn't find much pertaining to pre-med. </p>
<p>So, according to the posts on this thread, Human Ecology will prepare me the most? </p>
<p>If so, then what would be a good second choice? Arts and Sciences or Agriculture and Life Science? Is the latter more prestigious or better than the former since there are fewer admitted students? Which offers more financial aid? The colleges funded by NYC or the ones that aren't?</p>
<p>I plan to continue Spanish or Chinese in college. I've taken 4 subject tests (780 avg), the SATs (2260), not the ACTs, 10 AP classes by the time I graduate (so far a 4.8333 avg. in 6 AP tests) and have a 3.993 GPA if that helps at all.</p>