<p>Not enough to make it not worth it :D</p>
<p>How's the weather around late Aug/early Sept? </p>
<p>When does it become cold enough to necessitate actual winter clothing (ski jackets? fleece, gloves, etc)? What exactly do people mean by "layering"?</p>
<p>Would you recommend buying that stuff before or after arriving in Ithaca (especially because I'm from CA, have never seen snow, and have no idea how to dress for winter)?</p>
<p>How much shopping did you guys do during the summer and how much after? Umm.. I'm female if it'll help obtain a more helpful answer. I've heard it's generally recommended to buy most of your stuff after you get a feel for the college and your students...</p>
<p>Any extra tips for those traveling 3000 miles to go to college?</p>
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<li>Very hot. 70s/80s/90s during the day, nice cool summer nights.</li>
<li>December. You can bring that stuff during fall break. Laying is wearing multiple layers of thin clothes over each other for best insulation. It also increases your options and gives you the ability to take off clothes when you get to class, etc.</li>
<li>You won't need to buy it until fall break.</li>
<li>I did all my shopping during the summer. You will probbaly bring about twice what you actually use/need.</li>
<li>It happens.</li>
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<p>I spent like 1,500 dollars on clothes..that might be excessive, though. It's not really as much as it sounds like. I did most shopping before arriving at Cornell, but I've bought a few things at the mall there. The selection of stores is pretty limited.</p>
<p>ASP, I find the AEWs really useful but only during the days right before a test. AEW facilitators usually hold some sort of review that is based off previous tests, so what you review (or learn) there is usually highly relevant to whatever prelim/final you're about to take. They're also useful if you don't want to go to class (at least for me...I stopped going to 293 lecture/section about a month in and pulled off an A just by going to AEW and studying on my own).</p>
<p>Thanks Towerpumkin. Do they do anything extra (apart from ur math/ Chem course, i.e) or is it based on the Math/ Chem courses?</p>
<p>Depends on the AEW instructor, but usually you will learn extra stuff.</p>
<p>Will there be enough time to order textbooks online (from amazon/half etc), or is it necessary to buy them immediately from the bookstore?</p>
<p>Just order them online and borrow a book from somebody in your class for the first few days, if you actually happen to need your book during those first few days.</p>
<p>There were some books I never even opened all semester.</p>
<p>Which would you say the main reason some don't do so well at Cornell (as opposed to their high school careers)?
-Time-management issues
-Courses are a lot more difficult
-There are many smarter people who set the curve high
-Students realize they're actually idiots who, through some fluke, got into Cornell (I'm terrified of this btw lol)</p>
<p>time-management</p>
<p>Time management/just don't care</p>
<p>are any of you in the AEM program? I have some questions about it.</p>
<p>How easy is it to get into a music program at Cornell if you don't want to major in it?</p>
<p>Is it easy to make friends with anyone you talk to or are there just many cliques?</p>
<p>You'll be living on North Campus, which is all freshmen. NOBODY will know anybody... you'll make lots of friends as long as you don't sit in your room all day.</p>
<p>For the first month, you shouldn't be in your room at all except to study. It's the only time in your life where you can "start again" and everybody's meeting people for the first time.</p>
<p>Later in the year, some cliques form, but the student body isn't particularly cliquey or snobby... there's so many kids you can't make any generalizations at all about them.</p>
<p>how good is the cornell premed program? how competitive is it? what is the recruitment rate to med school?</p>
<p>Cornell says:</p>
<p>In 2004, of the Cornell first-time undergraduate applicants to medical school, 77% were successful in gaining admission to a U.S. allopathic (M.D.) school. (Nationally, 49% of applicants were accepted in 2004.) 86% of 2004 Cornell applicants with a 3.4 or above gained admission to a U.S. allopathic school.</p>
<p>It may be misleading to compare undergraduate institutions using medical school admissions data because institutions have different practices for recommending students for medical school. Some undergraduate institutions recommend only selected students. At Cornell, a student may apply to a health professional school and Cornell will write a letter of evaluation if the student has taken the required courses and follows the procedure for obtaining such a letter.</p>
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<p>Can we use these 4 meals for ourselves?</p>
<p>If you're on a meal plan that gets bonus meals, you should never be at a loss for food.</p>
<p>All meal plans get 4 bonus meals/semester.</p>
<p>Erm..also, just curious, are these meals in a meal plan buffets?</p>