Cornell v Brown v Tifts
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Anonymous
| For a science kid who is also sporty with a tiny bit of nerd thrown in, where would he best fit? |
Anonymous
| I hear Tifts is awesome, and quite a party school. |
Anonymous
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What type of "science"? What is long-term goal? Grad school? Academia?
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Anonymous
| And which sports? |
Anonymous
| Science i.e. Pre med. Sports: basketball and hockey. |
Anonymous
The Tifts Jimbo Iliphants rule! |
Anonymous
That's really good! |
Anonymous
| Cornell has a great engineering school, but also tons of variety so you can take some really fun electives. Anything from the arts & sciences school, college of agriculture & life sciences, hotel administration, architecture... it's a big school. |
Anonymous
| Is this really a question? |
Anonymous
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Cornell obviously would be the most prestigious for science and probably the most rigorous. Tufts isn't exactly known for it's sciences. It does have a school of engineering, but as an alum who was friends with many of the people in the program, half were extremely smart--the other half I pray didn't go on to design anything safety related. Don't know much about Brown and the sciences. Everyone I know who went there were liberal arts majors.
Has your kid visited the schools yet? Cornell is about 3 times the size of Tufts from a population size. Truly your kid will probably find his academic and social niche at any of the schools but there all rather different. |
Anonymous
Doesn't Tufts have a medical school? I would have assumed pre med would be good. |
Anonymous
Cornell, but that's a very odd bake-off you're setting up here. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| I think Cornell and Brown are very different settings. I don't think the difference in prestige, if any, between the two is not worth basing your decision on. (Brown has a med school too) |
Anonymous
| Cornell is an absolute pressure cooker, but has amazing science departments. |