I have been planning to visit Cornell for a while now but the only near date with a tour and info session is on Aril 18th…the day of my ACT. I have talked to some professors via email and they said they would like to meet me. They also recommended the tour and info session. Should I just go up to Ithaca and schedule to meet the professors w/o the tour and info session? I really can not stall any longer than the end of this month so I was planning on just heading up there in a few weeks…
Yes you can go without a formal tour. Just arrange to meet the profs. This is a perfectly normal, adult thing to do. Enjoy the campus!
@T26E4 Thank you!
I would at least try to make the info session. Maybe this is because it was my first college visit but I found it immensely helpful. The tour isn’t really necessary but if you get a chance I’d still do it. Is it possible you could move your ACT to a later date?
I wouldn’t worry about it, you can’t get blood from a stone and meeting with professors is important. Are you sure they don’t have an informal process to have at least a short tour? I’d ask admissions.
Or, maybe a student from the departments you are visiting can volunteer to do a quick tour for you.
@matt846 nah I already paid
@0br0123
You can do a self-guided tour using a map. There’s not much in the info sessions that you can’t get from Cornell’s web site so please don’t fret over this too much. Go whenever you can. More than the info sessions, you’ll get a much better “feel” for the place by exploring on your own, sitting in a cafe, strolling through the plaza, talking to students, etc.
(Cornell doesn’t use “demonstrated interest” in their admissions process and it’s not important to them whether you sat through an info session.)
My son is deciding between UMD (Honors with Cybersecurity specialization), UIUC and Cornell for CS. We will be visiting Cornell soon. The other places, he just emailed some profs and was able to sit in on CS classes. At UMD, a prof even took him out for lunch to chat about undergraduate research. Is such a thing possible for Cornell or does one choose only from the course offering from the Cornell days schedule?