<p>I'll give sparticus a hand here as well. I'll be entering my 2nd semester junior year in the fall and will be a senior by the spring. I'm in ILR. </p>
<p>SUNY Cornell - go to the Wikipedia.org website and look up Cornell University. It explains 'statutory college' alot more in depth. ALL of the schools under Cornell are private, the only difference being NY gives subsidies to its residents in 4 of the schools. An analogy would be a private hospital that gets state money for research. </p>
<p>ASP-
Academics and Professors:</p>
<p>1.) How approachable are Professors? Typically very!
2.) If you have doubts in a subject do you goto your seniors or to your professors? I've always gone to my professors or my TA's. Just depends if there are TA's in the class and how close I am to them.
3.) How helpful are seniors with helping you? I've never really asked, I'll either go to a friend who is also in a class or right to the professors.
4.) Do Professors ask most questions from their lectures? I've found yes.
5.) Are the question made up by them or picked from books? Most are made up only days before the exam.
6.) To what extent is extra reading needed? You'll get a feel for each class as the semester moves along and how important the readings are. I'd start otu by reading everything to begin with, though.
7.) How often do you get Assignments? All the time!
8.) How relevant are the assignments to what you get in your paper? Usually they can be a good help.
9.) How many students...say in 100...get a >4.0? I dont know anybody with a 4.0.
10.) What are the chances of getting funds to pursue some idea you have? How well do you present yourself? Try for a summer research positon, get professors on your side!
11.) How helpful are professors with developing ideas you have and guiding you? This becomes very easy if you pursuit your own research topics under the guidance of certain professors. </p>
<p>Social Life</p>
<p>1.) To what extent is it possible to make do without leaving campus? As in, Is it possible to make do everything with whats available on campus? I think so. I only left campus a few times on the weekends to go to the mall for a movie or something. You'll get free bus passes.
2.) How often do Buses go from North Campus -> Engineering quad. I think every 10 minutes.
3.) Is it possible to ride the bicycle in winter? Yes, unless it's currently snowing out. Roads are always plowed in time.
4.) Is winter clothing cheaper or more expensive there? Cheaper in the spring. Best place to shop is Dick's sporting goods at the mall.
5.) Whats the advantage of a Fraternity? not in one!
6.) Whats the disadvantage of a Fraternity? ditto
7.) How difficult is it to get intoa Fraternity? ditto
8.) How long and ardious is the admission to Fraternity? Are the application forms available online? (A brief mention of the process u went thru would be highly appreciated) ditto</p>
<p>bball06- you're not related to bball87 are ya??- he used to talk alot about SUNY/Cornell too. Anyway- it's not SUNY. Cornell was designated as land grant institution for NYS in the 1860's as there was no NY state u. system until 1948 (??) Anyway- tuition for NYS residents in ILR (my d is in that program) Human Ec and CALS is around $18,000. Considerably more than SUNY tuition but less than regular tuition at Cornell.</p>
<p>1337hax0r: during the summer if i just said "sophomore" it would be ambiguous, so r"ising sophomore" means i am rising to a sophomore status in the fall as opposed to having just completed sophomore year this spring.</p>
<p>Qwertz82: That's a pretty general question, but overall cornell is a 10/10 in my book. It's obviously an intensely academic place with a lot of really bright students, what with being one of the top schools in the country. It also happens to have a great campus environment, what with having a beautiful campus, vibrant social life, tons to do, and many very happy and outgoing students. The only thing that's not great here is the weather, which is pretty bleak in the winter, but other than that, anything worth complaining about ISN'T worth complaing about, if you catch my drift. the problems with cornell are pretty small for the most part. That's not to say many other schools don't have similar greatness. I'm just saying that for students who can do the work and can handle a cold winter, there's really hardly anything missing from cornell.</p>
<p>I have a few questions about life at Cornell. They may seem a bit funny, but I just realized that I'm definitely going to need to know this stuff.</p>
<p>Are there good places around to say, get haircuts and would you recommend any specific barbers...?</p>
<p>How is the medical care for students? I know that there must be an infirmary or clinic of some sort on campus since the medical school is not in Ithaca. How accesible is this to students?</p>
<p>vabusta: While the haircuts I got were either when I went home for break with my regular barber, and when I buzzed my head with some friends and an electric clipper, there is a barber in collegetown that's inexpensive and recommends what he think will look good and everything that my friends really liked.</p>
<p>Gannett is in the middle of campus and Cayuga Medical is a short ride away... I've been to Gannett and they're very nice and helpful. You just give them your student ID number and tell them what's wrong. Oh yeah, having mono sucks.</p>
<p>Frankly I've been pretty disappointed with haircuts around Cornell, at least cheap ones. It might just be because I'm ugly though.</p>
<p>By the way, be careful telling someone "fraternities are not for you," Alcoholic. I didn't think they were for me either but I found one I liked. It's not impossible when there are 50 around--in fact it's likely that one will be full of people who share your interests.</p>
<p>Arjun, PM me if you want more info on rush and how rushing/pledging/etc works.</p>
<p>I am careful in telling someone that. Have you seen the history of Arjun's posts? He also wrote that he wanted to join a fraternity largely because of housing, which is a pretty bad reason.</p>
<p>What do you guys do during the Winter Session? Do you spend most of the time at home just relaxing? Do you get special jobs or internships? How common is it to take classes during the Winter Session?</p>
<p>rapport--in my experience, it's pretty uncommon. I spend Winter Break weaving Christmas wreaths and wishing it snowed where I live (see last post, "sitting on my ass"), before I go on tour with my a cappella group for the last couple weeks and then return early for rush.</p>
<p>That doesn't mean that the Winter Session classes are bad or that you shouldn't investigate them, by the way; it just means most of your friends won't be there.</p>
<p>thanks a lot. Cornell looks like a cool place because it doesn't seem as elitist as Harvard or Yale and it's bigger than the other ivy leagues, so it sounds like it would have a much better social atmosphere.</p>
<p>Yea, I recommend coming up for rush. Even if you're not going to join a house, you can still get drunk. My friends and I just hopped in a car of guys each night and got taken to random houses to drink as guys brown nosed each other. If you're a girl, you'll need to drink after kissing excessive amounts of ass and answering the same questions for hours on end.</p>
<p>Idk, rush isn't particularly enjoyable for girls, lol. It was like the worst 5 days of my life (besides the parties) and would have really sucked if I didn't join a house...or if I couldn't drink every night after having my dignity seriously compromised from having to endure fake conversation after fake conversation. There were so many people who got cut this year after enduring 3 days of that stuff...I felt bad, almost. Even though rush sucks for girls, pledging is amazing. It's the opposite for guys.</p>