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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cornell. Very depressed student body and too competitive. Plus the weather and location do not help with depression [/quote]

Eh I don't think it was nearly as competitive as people often make it out to be. My experience at Cornell was nothing like what the people from say Berkeley here are describing. Even though classes are graded on a curve, and yes you want to do your best, students are still happy to make study groups and help each other out. Plus I liked that there were a lot of nerdy folks who weren't just interested in drinking and partying all the time. There is a ton of work and the everlasting prelim/midterm season doesn't help but many schools with rigorous STEM classes are also stressful. There are a ton of mental health programs on campus nowadays to help with the stress.

The weather is definitely sucky though but at least the campus is beautiful in the spring and fall.

What I will say is that since Cornell is so isolated, the "everyone will take care of stuff for you and you will make awesome connections" thing doesn't happen as much. For example I found UMD has a lot more "ins" to govt jobs and internships at companies than Cornell does. People value Ivies for the connections their kids make, and at Cornell you kind of have to work to make the connections yourself instead of having them handed to you, which makes it less valuable for networking. For example at Harvard my friend was handed a summer internship in a Nobel laureate's lab, just for doing well in an intro Biology class. This would never happen at Cornell.

Well, I guess Cornell is known as a lower Ivy for a reason lol.[/quote]

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