Any NSers get into Cornell?

ya i turned them down tho farr to man minorites in my case i require a school thats atleast 92% pure
 
i'm applying there next year, its one of my top choices. I know a friend of mine got in and is probably going.
 
I'm at Cornell right now. I need a refreshing break from the typical Westchester/Long Island crowd-- an NSer would probably be awesome.
 
cornell has a sick campus and ithaca is a sick town filled with a bunch of old hippies and head-shops. I definately want to apply there. theres some pretty good cliff jumping spots around there too but i havent visited any of them.
 
Yup, there are. The gorges are really fun/nice too.

OP, my brother just finished up last year. And isn't homecoming like next week, because I'm pretty sure he's coming back for it?
 
I was referring to the fact that Cornell has the highest rate of suicide out of any college/university in the united stated......duh
 
^Really? I've always heard that the highest suicide rates were at MIT and NYU. Cornell wouldn't surprise me either though, it's certainly a stressful environment.
 
well theres a bridge that everyone jumped off right on campus so thats prolly the reason behind it. they had to put up nets and stuff to stop people from jumping
 
how do you like it? i think im visiting soon and it seems like somewhere i may like a lot
 
Haha sure man. For the amount of time that I've been here so far I absolutely love it. Ithaca is an amazing town (no. 1 college town in the us for those who didn't know) and its a great city to go to school in. If you're looking to apply here i definitely would not hesitate. As for the people at the school you'll find the inevitable ithaca hippies but there are a ton of cool chill kids to hang out with. the party scene is pretty chill but if you're in the mood for a rager you can always hit up the frat partys (don't stay for too long though you might kill yourself). theres a ton of other shit, if you have specific questions feel free to pm me
 
Yeahh I am a freshman so even though I have only been here for a week or so I have really liked it. I am on the swim team so I pretty much got insta friends though there. For the most part everyone I have met here has been super chill.

I can answer some more specific question if you want(pm me) but it is an easy place to like.
 
My neighbor is going into his second year there, he said he's trying to get into skiing so you might see him on the closest hill
 
haha It has been so nice the past few days I am not going to complain. You need to take advantage of the nice weather here and hit the gorges as much as possible before it's too cold.
 
you're asking a near impossible question...kinda depends on things such as

-what would you be studying

-how hard working are you?

-how intelligent are you?

-how bad do you want to go to school there?

-how bad do you want to do well academically?

 
Great bump.

It depends on your major and how hard you challenge yourself. Generally, if you have non-quantitative, non-science major (ie English, hotel school, ILR, government, History, AEM - undergrad business major, etc.) then its pretty easy unless you go above and beyond and take hard classes to challenge yourself. Generally, if you have a science or quantitative-heavy major like engineering, pre-med, computer science, etc. then it will be pretty challenging. Those are huge generalizations but the point is your workload and the difficulty will be completely based on your major (but of course this is true to some extent at all schools).

The real difference is in the attitude of students. At Cornell, people generally go to class, do homework, or study pretty hard Mon-Thurs. A lot of people do school work during the day on Saturday. And Sunday is known as a big homework/study day to prepare for the week ahead. That being said, of course people find time to hang out late some nights in the evenings, eat 3 meals a day, go out 2-3 nights a week, get involved with extracurricular activities, watch a few hours of TV or sports a week, and waste time online. In comparison, my friends at state schools seem like they spend only a few hours a week doing school work and have an absurd amount of free time to go out or hang out almost every night and do little to no work each weekend.

If you're smart, its very easy to beat the mean (in most majors). There's a lot of people that get in for reasons aside from their intelligence.

As for getting in you need to be in the top 1-5% of your class in h/s - basically you need to have taken the hardest courses offered in your high school and gotten A's in almost all of them. You also need a laundry list of time-consuming extra curricular activities including a few areas that you were very involved in. You also need to write a powerful essay that explains why you want to go to Cornell. You need decent SAT scores >2000 if you went a high school that sends kids to Ivy League schools including Cornell and if you went to a small high school that doesn't typically send kids to Cornell you better be valedictorian (or all A's in hardest classes if your school doesn't rank) and have a very high SAT score >2200. These statistics are flexible especially if you have an outstanding achievement (ie won a national research competition, gave a TED talk, etc).

Early decision, writing a powerful essay on why you want to go to Cornell, and applying to a less popular major with a good reason why (ie applying to be an agricultural sciences major having started a local farming cooperative) will help you get in.

Feel free to message me if you have any other questions.

 
I'll be applying there this year. It looks like a sick school, and my scores are decent enough. Glad to hear some NSers are there haha
 
When I applied more high schools ranked but I am aware this is declining so I also gave GPA descriptions. However a lot of schools have weird GPA systems (my school gave you 5.0 if you got an A in an AP class) so I gave the description of taking your school's hardest classes and getting pretty much all A's.

If you go to a good high school that sends kids to the ivy league you are in a much better spot than someone who goes to a high school that doesn't send kids to the ivy league. Cornell knows what high schools are good and what high schools aren't. If you go to a bad high school (small, middle of nowhere or poor inner-city, doesn't send kids to top schools) than you better have ridiculously high test scores and be valedictorian. At Cornell, I constantly meet people from who went to the same high schools (top public high schools in Long Island, Westchester, NJ, NYC-Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and the top prep schools-Philips Exeter). I almost never meet people who are from random towns throughout the US. The few people I have met from places in like Kentucky or Maine or Arizona (which I almost never do) tell me that in their year there are maybe 1-5 kids from their ENTIRE STATE that go here. In comparison, each year 25+ kids come here from Stuyvesant and 10+ from certain top public schools in the Northeast.

Cornell is bigger than the other Ivies and thus easier to get into. Most people take HYPP over Cornell. However when it comes to Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth versus Cornell its really what type of school and career you want.

 
i'm gonna try and go dartmouth ED, but if that doesnt work out, cornell is in my second round of schools. not saying ill get in, but why not...
 
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