<p>No, it wouldn't.</p>
<p>Hotelies don't even need to know how to multiply or divide, let alone do integral calculus.</p>
<p>Just kidding (about the multiplying and dividing, not the calculus).</p>
<p>The fact that you are even taking BC probably surprised the adcom people for the hotel school. </p>
<p>You people are freaking out way too much about midyear reports. They aren't going to rescind admission for C's!</p>
<p>im majoring in engingeering (possible mechanical). would a C in psychology affect me</p>
<p>How elitist is the student body? Also, what percent is made up of pure workaholics, who refuse to do anything but pretty much school related stuff to kicking ass academically.</p>
<p>C in psych doesn't matter.</p>
<p>George:
1) What do you mean by elitism? If you mean academic elitism, i.e. the "Harvard mentality", then there isnt really any at all that i've noticed. However, if you mean social elitism in the sense of kids who have millions of dollars, went to private schools, drive fancy cars, somehow manage to all know each other, and make you feel inferior through your mere existence, then there is plenty of that. Not enough to make it representative of the whole school, but enough to be annoying to mere mortals like myself.
2) In answering your question, I'm going to avoid any blanket statements or comments that could possibly be interpreted as exemplifying stereotypes. <em>Cough cough its mostly the damn asian kids they never do anything but study, not even sleep, oh sometimes they play DDR but then its back to kicking your ass on prelims cough cough</em>. Whoa, did I hear something? Anyhow, ahem, yeah, I mean there are a good number, but not really enough to affect the social climate of the school as a whole. If I had to use a numerical figure, it would be 5% maximum.</p>
<p>perro, I meant academic elitism pretty much. I understand there is always going to be your G.W. Bush's and John Kerry's who grew up 100% rich their entire lives and recieve special treatment by grace of birth. By "Harvard Mentality", what do you mean? The type of thought that if you aren't here at harvard, you are a second class ivy? Or what?</p>
<p>The uber-studious people are gonna be at any school, its just a matter of how many there are. Its really not that much. As for elitism, everyone is pretty much down to earth, and arent all impressed with themselves and look down on people who go to "lesser" schools. There are some elitist people in the way that perro described, with the money and all (henceforth know as preps), but there arent too many. Just the random person here or there who has a popped collar which makes me want to go up and punch them in the face.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>What I meant was the kind of people who are extremely full of themselves due to their academic achievements. And no, there aren't a lot of them.</p>
<p>hehe, apparently 70% of harvard kids marry other harvard kids
only 30% of ppl believe *non*hahhvaahd spouses are good enough, eh ^^
(maybe like 20 of that percentage goes to other ivies.. haha)</p>
<p>with 50% marrying alma mater students = uchic!</p>
<p>hey. easy on the popped collar hating</p>
<p><em>Cough cough its mostly the damn asian kids they never do anything but study, not even sleep, oh sometimes they play DDR but then its back to kicking your ass on prelims cough cough</em>. </p>
<p>wuthef is that? DDR still existed? damn...</p>
<p>Yeah DDR still exists. </p>
<p>The ones in my dorm play it in a flash form on their laptops, where instead of using their feet you use the arrow keypad on your keyboard lol.</p>
<p>babe, it was an exagerration :)</p>
<p>whattt!!!! keyboard is so lame</p>
<p>There's very little you haven't already answered, so I just have two quick questions:</p>
<p>1.) How tolerant is Cornell of different sexualities and races? Is there a lot of racism/homophobia there? </p>
<p>2.) I know you can take courses at Cornell over the summer for advanced credit. Do a lot of students do this?</p>
<p>ok i got deferred ED at cornell so i probably shouldn't even be in here haha. i just wanted to know what the chances are for deferred people to get accepted and is there anything i can do to improve my app b/c i reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally want to get in!!</p>
<p>i have the same question as vanillamountain. is there any form of racial discrimination at cornell?</p>
<p>Vanillamountain:
1) This is a tricky issue at CU. Cornell is VERY concerned with (basically to the point of obsession) diversity and equality and all that stuff. Remember, the president of the university is the same guy who got hauled before the supreme court when he was dean of the UMich law school to defend that university's "points" system, where URM applicants were given an extra advantage simply for being members of those races. So on an official level, they are extremely intolerant of any racism, sexism, homophobia, or other discrimination. During orientation you will have to go through a couple of hours of sensitivity training (not kidding) regarding this stuff. Basically if anything that could be considered descrimination occurs, it will be reported as a "bias incident" and the university will drag the offender in front of a military tribunal. This is not just for flagrant stuff; an example that was given was if someone was angry at an activity or something and said, "Man, this is gay!!". So needless to say, anything discriminatory isnt tolerated officially. There of course are plenty of kids who say such comments; I guess its just inherent. However, to a greater extent, it seems that a lot of kids who wouldnt normally feel in such a way are turned off by this obsession by the university. I mean, they get to Cornell and suddenly they are having all this political correctness shoved down their throat and are being threatened with major consequences for a slip of the toungue or a remark which one individual finds offensive(such as accidentally saying "colored" instead of "person of color"). This can breed a sort of revolt against the system, because these kids who normally wouldnt even think of discriminating feel that they are preemtively being called racists/sexists/homophobes. This is really hard to explain so I apologize if it doesn't make much sense, but can be quite apparent at times. I havent really run into many kids who are truly racist or homophobic, but there is a much greater number of people who wish the school would quit obsessing over these issues and are annoyed by the perceived level of "political correctness". </p>
<p>2) No.</p>
<p>aaaa:
I've never actually met anyone who got in after being deferred so most likely you are fux0red. I guess its technically possible that you could get in, but I dunno how.</p>
<p>well luckily for you aaa, unlike perro, i actually do know someone who got in after being deferred ED. this girl on my floor who's also a good friend of mine was deferred ED and she wrote a letter to the Dean and somehow convinced them to let her in RD...but i have no idea what she wrote in it.</p>
<p>I have another question. What exactly is the 3 week Winter session, and is it manditory?</p>
<p>no its not mandatory; its like summer school in the winter. if you choose to, you can enroll for 1 class and its taught at a very accelerated pace.</p>