<p>I never noticed before I was accepted to Cornell, but in my area there are several families where everyone went to school at CU.</p>
<p>So far I've met about 4 families, and in the most recent family I met, the entire family went to cornell (husband, wife, and son), and the father's entire family also went. I keep discovering families like this, is this typical?</p>
<p>Also, I find a lot of people that reminice about their "days on the hill". . . . and people really become attatched with the school, like one women told me that her father requested the Cornell Alma Matter to be played at his funeral. Now, I think that is wicked cool. . .</p>
<p>And at least in upstate NY opportunites seem to be readily available just because your affiliated with the university. Since I decided I'm going there, I've had two different people offering me an internship at Cornell Cooperative Extension. . .probably for pay and credit too. . . </p>
<p>Just thought I'd share, and was wondering if anyone had any experiences like this. . . .</p>
<p>Cornell has that advantage over other top-tier schools. Being such a large university (relative to the other Ivies, for example), you are very likely to run into alumni. This can have some nice side effects, as you have already seen, especially when you're in the job market. I've heard many stories about grads and students being hired because the recruiter was a Cornell alumnus. This is a distinct advantage over a smaller school (even ones with a better reputation in certain fields).</p>
<p>Our alumni and students swarm haha. My beach house is part of an 8 condo unit, w/ 1 family per condo. Last week there were at least 8 cornellians in the unit...I meet them everywhere I go. My dentist, my old principal, there are so many of them.</p>
<p>Every single person in my parents generation went to cornell, including their spouses...except one (father's brother's wife went to Brown). That's TEN alumni to whom I'm related.</p>