<p>What reputation does each undergrad college have?
What is the typical <em>insert college</em> student like?</p>
<p>CAS
Human Ec
Engineering
Hotel
AAP
CALS
ILR</p>
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<p>you sound like the type of person that doesn’t really belong at cornell. no one here really ‘labels’ another person by the college they are in. i’m in CAS, i have friends in every other college and don’t really tag them with any type of trait.</p>
<p>almost everyone is focused and driven towards a certain goal, and that’s all anyone really worthwhile thinks about. there are a few kids who think college X is a certain way and college Y is another, but those are usually the less enlightened. engineers are working on engineering and premeds are working on medical school and prelaws are working on law school… and whether those ppl are humecs, hotelies, arts, cals, or ILR, etc. everyone’s basically just a cornellian.</p>
<p>^sorry this was supposed to be like the “ivy league stereotypes” thread.
I know people do not define you by your college, but reputations exist. It’s fun to hear these stereotypes more as a funny thing than something serious.</p>
<p>I hate it when anything one says about Cornell is suddenly a bomb threat to it’s status and academic ability.</p>
<p>Relax current Cornellians…damn.</p>
<p>Alright I’ll play along.</p>
<p>CALS: The second largest and most diverse college imo. Here you’ll find a broad range of kids: from conservative, wannabe investment bankers (AEM kids) to pre-med nerds to crunchy-granola ag majors. CALS has a very high proportion of varsity athletes and Greeks as well as a very very high percentage of transfers (1 out of 3 CALS students is a transfer). This means that CALS students are well-balanced and social for the most part. Go to Trillium at lunch to see the attractive CALS kids.</p>
<p>Architects: Rarely will you see a real live architect. They literally live in Rand Hall for most of the year, emerging in March to set fire to a gigantic wood dragon, running through the streets wasted. Very fashion-conscious for the most part. Highest percentage of hipsters. Yeah many of them smoke like chimneys.</p>
<p>Hotelies: Easily the most social college (their future kind of depends on it). Rarely will you meet an unfriendly hotelie. Often teased by the rest of the university for having the fluffiest curriculum and having brownie-baking prelims. The famous Wines class is in the Hotel School. Generally an attractive bunch. Highest starting salary of all the colleges I think.</p>
<p>Engineers: The most socially awkward of the seven colleges. TONS of Asians and probably the school with the most internationals. Some of the most demanding majors Cornell offers are in Engineering (ECE comes to mind). I’d venture that the average engineer would much rather stay in and play Warcraft than go out to a social gathering with alcohol. Highest standard of SAT but lowest standard of hygine.</p>
<p>Arts: The largest ug college and the hardest to stereotype. Academically diverse, obviously. Probably the second most socially awkward college. All your philosophy, classics, linguistics kids are in this college. High amount of pretentious self-righteousness relative to the other more “vocational” colleges. </p>
<p>ILR: ILR’s a kind of weird, niche college; I still don’t truly understand what they study. They read a lot as the acronym goes (ILR = I love reading) and probably half are pre-law. They are a generally social, likable bunch. 95% of their classes are in that ugly dungeon known as Ives. </p>
<p>HumEc: Probably the second most social college. It’s also a very small, niche school known for having lots of classes about nutrition and sex. I think there’s a class called “Human Interpersonal Relationships” or something like that. I don’t know too many HumEc kids but they seem cool.</p>
<p>Hope that helped. Please don’t take these too seriously, they’re all in good fun.</p>
<p>^ yay i’m a cool humec kid :)</p>
<p>i think you’re talking about human bonding. we do have a bunch of sex classes… human sexuality and gender/sexual development come to mind. woooo sex</p>
<p>Do you seriously believe that bluedevilbball? That post sounds straight out of some brochure or something. People don’t segregate themselves based on schools but clearly there are stereotypes that exist (and are somewhat accurate) and I think this is a fun legitimate question. </p>
<p>I agree with a lot caillebotte wrote and I’ll just add some of my own thoughts.</p>
<p>Architecture: I know a decent amount of architects and for the most part they are all really friendly and hard working. I feel like there are a lot of close friendships within the school also since they spend so much time working there.</p>
<p>Hotelies: Definitely take a lot of **** from people and generally always bring up the salary afterward. Pretty outgoing though some can be a bit pretentious.</p>
<p>Engineers: Most of the engineers I know are either frat bros or even athletes and in general they don’t hang out with I guess what you’d call your “stereotypical engineer”. </p>
<p>ILR: Not sure what the percentage is but there seems like a ton of NYers with most being form long island. A lot of the ILRies I know are dead set on going to law school and seem to take a pre-professional approach rather than the liberal arts focus in A+S.</p>
<p>CALS: Very split also like mentioned above. The majority of athletes are probably in this school in AEM or communications (also the hotel school). The more agricultural focused majors tend attract a lot of environmentalists type kids who I’ve very much enjoyed debating with in my discussions.</p>
<p>HumEc: I don’t know many kids here but the ones I do know are really friendly.</p>
<p>A+S: Far too large to generalize. So many majors, many want to pursue future teaching jobs, law school, med school, or just ‘learning for the sake of learning’.</p>
<p>@ Caillebotte</p>
<p>I think Architecture beats Engineers in worst hygiene…</p>
<p>The list Caillebotte made is pretty spot on, as far as stereotypes go, but keep in mind that they’re only stereotypes - maybe good for a bit of fun, but not indisputable labels by any means. </p>
<p>Arts is of course home to much self righteousness, but the science majors there seem more akin to engineers. </p>
<p>I will add that AAP tends to have the best fashion sense if you’re a hipster, and hotelies have the best fashion sense if you’re more into the preppy scene.</p>
<p>I will also add that Humec is surprisingly difficult to generalize: the school has students studying fashion design as well as students in PAM. The school is also home to some pre-meds. </p>
<p>I wonder, if some of the new university reforms on the table gets passed and AEM ends up being rechartered as the Johnson school’s undergraduate program, would we have a new “a$$hole college”? I can just hear the english majors saying “those Johnson school kids are soooo boring. they’re all just wannabe investment bankers”.</p>
<p>Highest starting salaries of are:</p>
<p>1) Engineering
2) ILR
3) Hotel
4) the rest</p>
<p>You can look this up online. I’ll post the link to the career survey if I locate it.</p>
<p>The engineering stereotype is SOOOOOOOO not true. I chose Cornell engineering bc our undergrads are actually a pretty decent looking bunch who know how to socialize. A lot of tall, good looking guys (and some not-so-tall, not-so-goodlooking guys but that happens everywhere in life). Just about everyone I’ve met is some type of athlete. And most people understand the concept of bathing (and put it into practice) contrary to popular belief. Most importantly engineers are a friendly bunch. I’ve nvr met an engineer who wasn’t willing to help someone out academically. No competition at all. </p>
<p>Also I understand that the previous generalizations were meant to be funny but I feel that it was way to far from the truth to be left uncorrected.</p>