Ithaca: The Big Picture
I love that IC puts an emphasis on hands-on experience. I might change the weather, because I'm already from a cold area and sometimes I wish I'd chosen somewhere with a milder climate.
Ithaca Academic Life
Students are competitive depending on the major. Music, communications, theater, and health science students are the most competitive in general. With all the other majors you have some dedicated, competitive students and some slackers. I was a music major with a concentration in Integrated Marketing Communications and I loved it. However, my career goals required more training in IMC so I flipped the two. Now I'm a music minor.
Ithaca's Student Body
Most students are pretty liberal. Actually, you might say we're mostly libertarian. However, the campus isn't so political that if you're politically conservative everybody will shun you.