<p>"How much homework do premeds typically have per day? Do weekly assignments take up much time? Any premeds (or ppl who know a premed as well i suppose) willing to summarize a daily or weekly schedule in terms of work/play hours?"</p>
<p>How much HW depends on your major. I'm a bio major so I have to spend a lot of time studying. However, you can be an English or psych major and still do premed. Those majors would require less of an effort to get good grades in. </p>
<p>I generally spend around 5 hours a day studying and around 2-3 hours in class. I also work 3 jobs part-time which take up a lot of my free time.</p>
<p>GPA's come and go. My semester GPA has been anywhere from 3.56 (my parents threatened to withdraw financial support after that semester) to 4.23 (almost straight A+'s).</p>
<p>wait... i didn't really get the placement exam thing. say i get 5 on chem/bio/phy/calc, do i still need to take the placement exam to skip the intro courses?</p>
<p>Is Cornell a pressure cooker? Now that the thrill of my acceptance is wearing off, I am faced with all the stories about it being a pressure cooker. Is this true? I may want to go to law school and GPA really matters. Is it very tough to get at least a 3.5 GPA in economics and political science?
Help, please. I'm scared. Maybe I should go to UNC-Chapel Hill. It seems more laid back there.</p>
<p>On the housing preference form, should i ask for a single, double, triple or quad? I really don't know what any of them are like. I'm not sure i'd want to be in a single though... Which one do u guys usually like best? I know there's a good chance i won't get what i request, but there isn't an option for no preference, so i gotta pick one of them...</p>
<p>I think double is nice. I live in a quad right now and altho it is huge it does get a little annoying having so many roomates. Lots of people uninvited be always think they can live here. I think double is nicest. U have someone to be w/ but not too much of an intrusion. I think double is cool (especially if u become good friends w/ ur roomie). I don't regret having a quad but every now and then it can be annoying (especially when it's hw time. I have to do things in the study lounge or I wouldn't get anything done.)</p>
<p>Thanks a lot for answering my earlier questions guys, but I think you have missed one lol..</p>
<p>"I also read about the Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory system at Cornell, but I can only find information on that for CoE but not CAS (which I am in). So does CAS have a similar system as CoE? And how many courses actually have a S/U option?"</p>
<p>Then I figured out more questions to ask (:, k if I by Any chance pass the Math 192 placement exam, I can get the university credit for that right?</p>
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<li><p>Certain courses require either an AP score or a placement test to place out of. I had to take the Spanish placement exam because I didn't take the AP test.</p></li>
<li><p>No, Cornell's not a pressure cooker. </p></li>
<li><p>I'd go for either a double or a single depending on how much of a private person you are. Singles also cost a few hundred more.</p></li>
<li><p>Most courses have a S/U option. You can even change from letter grade option to S/U in the middle of a course.</p></li>
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<p>123orange
1) like I said before, the people who know most about research are your professors. depending on your major in CAS i would just talk to my professor after class about doing research and see what he/she says.
2) i'm not sure about the langauge requirement because I'm in ILR.
3) it is pretty easy to switch into other schools. you just need to write an essay and do well in class that are in your desired school.</p>
<p>I looked on the housing website and I couldn't find floorplans for the quads, and was wondering which buildings they were located in and how they looked. Is it just four people for one room or one of those bigger two rooms of two people with something of a common area, etc.</p>
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well off campus internet isn't a problem. if you're living off campus then internet should be provided by your landlord. living on campus sucks because of the 5GB limit per month. but you really won't go over 5GB if you download all of your music/videos from DC++. plus each 1GB over the limit is only $1.50. we also have wireless throughout campus
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<p>By off campus I meant browsing websites that are not hosted on servers on campus (off campus is the term they used in the resnet info packet). I was talking about the 5 GB limit which you mentioned (it was 2 gigs over the summer, but I guess 5 is a bit more tolerable!).</p>
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I'm taking Arabic here. I keep meaning to take a Spanish class, but I didn't have time to take the placement exam during orientation and haven't gotten around to it yet, and I can't skip to some upper-level classes without taking it.
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<p>I'm actually interested in taking Arabic - how is the program for that?</p>
<p>i'd just like to point out that even though liana, a girl, is asking about the download capacity of cornellians, this question holds more value to boys.</p>
<p>I had a question regarding the early bird/night owl housing preference. I was wondering if they are directing this question to figuring out how people would prefer to live during the weekends or in general? During the week days it seems that you would obviously need to be marked down for an early bird because classes start early and you need to get up prior. However, during the weekends i prefer to get to bed a bit later (after 12) and would not want to annoy my roommate by my staying up. So to reiterate, are they asking this to find out one's weekend preferences, or do we need to consider the week days as well in this decision? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>O no I don't go to Cornell yet (I'm a GT). I just meant in my experience in college so far because I'd say I still know about how to room lol.</p>
<p>At the college I'm at right now I room with people who wrote "before 12" and well...just look at the time I posted this. It differs but if they are up later than me I just put a cover over my head and visa versa. EVERYONE stays up later in college to my knowledge lol. U no longer have to wake up at 6 am for highschool so it's a pretty big difference. Plus u have things to do at late night rather than be home being bored lol. I'd write before 12 because there are some insomniacs out there who could annoy the hell out of u. One of my friends is rooming with one. Better safe than sorry. Best of luck! gnite! lol</p>
<p>5 GB's (it was 2GB's back when I lived on campus) is more than enough if you simply use the internet for research, email, light downloading. Obviously, 5 GB is going to be used up really fast if you download or stream a lot of porn err...educational materials via limewire or some kind of p2p service other than DC++. So don't do that. Get your educational materials from other sources.</p>
<p>You can find almost anything on DC++ (including "educational materials"). For that obscure thing thats not on DC++, if you have a laptop just go on wireless in a library and download that way (that's actually how DC++ usually has TV shows the day after its aired and new movies--people go on wireless or one person takes the bandwidth hit for the good of everyone else). The only real problem with the limit is that you cant YouTube too much (though if you do it really doesn't end up costing that much going over the bandwidth limit).</p>
<p>Regaring housing preference--if you're a really light sleeper or are really worried about that issue, just request a single. I don't think Cornell actually looks at that thing save if you're a girl requesting single-sex housing (because they need to fill Balch) or if you have a preference regarding single/double/triple/quad. All those other questions are just there to make you think that they care.</p>