<p>i have no regrets on that...for a brief moment after my high-school year was over, I found many guys from my class pursuing medicine...so i thought i would enquire...that was the time when the alcohol killing of Matthew happened, so i was a bit scared...duh!!! don't expect me not to have been shaken up...and for your kind info I wrote to Cornell's engineering dept on the same, enquiring whether it would be a right fit...whether i found find the right people...and in a reply, they told me more abt the clubs and groups...abt the types of students, how its difficult, but students strike a right balance. There's no question of insecurity...i had a doubt...and i'm very sure at some point most EDers would have had too.</p>
<p>Is Brown really lower ranked than Cornell? (sorry to ask twice but I wanna make sure because I never thought that)</p>
<p>brown is ranked lower (15 vs cornell's 13), but cornell only outranks it in peer assessment score (4.6 vs 4.4) and in financial resources rank (18 vs 28)
brown has a lower student to faculty ratio (10/1 vs 9/1)
and a higher selectivity rank (8 vs 16)
and a higher alumni giving rank and lower acceptance rate and 30 point higher interquartile range in SATs</p>
<p>it just depends on what you value; you can't really "rank" these schools in any way that would be beneficial to a large group of students besides by tier--any student that is genuinely interested in finding the right school (as opposed to hunting brand names) would have to do research into each school's specific strengths and weaknesses</p>
<p>arjun, you're taking a single even though you're an int'l student and worried about paying (i assume)? why not just get a double?
i think it would make it much easier to acclimate to the US if you have someone else with whom to go through the experience</p>
<p>haha "i'm more of a "nerdy" type...who's into academics and philosophy than partying and drugs..."
that sucks; everyone knows cornell's academics are its greatest weakness. now if you had gone to the top ivy in terms of academic difficulty, you might end up a lot happier :)</p>
<p>EDIT: had to correct a typo in ranking figures</p>
<p>From what I've observed...the Cornellians on this board dislike arjun much more than they will ever dislike Yale</p>
<p>Oh, high schoolers. :-)</p>
<p>Brown is more selective than Cornell. Selective does not equal "better than." Cornell has far greater respect in the academic world. It even has that academic exercise called research going on-at a world-class level, no less! Maybe Brown could benefit from that?</p>
<p>you're pretty messed up</p>
<p>haha way to be constructive shizz? or did i not understand some kind of joke?</p>
<p>Ya it's just that my family leaned more Brown research wise because my parents were...well...hippies and them and I both liked Brown a lot. But anyways, Cornell is AMAZING and a great fit for me. Thanks for the help!</p>