<p>1) Yes ILRies can get invovled in anything and any campus organization including the Cornell Daily Sun. And there is no inter-school rivalries at all. No one cares what school you are in. You live with, eat with, drink with, go out with, study with, etc with people from all 7 schools all the time. Sure you'll hear jokes about how easy AEM is or how Hotelies do their hwk with crayons or how the Bio kids are crazy for being pre-med but its all jokes and no one cares what school you're in. Most students don't even know much about the other schools besides the one theyre in.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can certainly get involved in the Daily Sun as a freshman from any college. It's certainly not a "CAS thing," any more than it is an "ILR thing" or whatever. Even the graduate community contributes.
As to Cornell grades, you can check out median grade reports here:
Cornell</a> University Registrar
I think it's fair to say students use them to help pick their classes, particularly if you're pre-law or pre-med or otherwise interested in maintaining a high gpa. It's also useful to make sure you're not going to be blindsided by lots of particularly difficult courses. Students also sometimes refer to RateMyProfessors.com, but word of mouth from a relatively random sample of upperclassmen is probably more reliable than that site.
As to ILR and reading, I think the CB department (Collective Bargaining, Labor Law, and Labor History) has the most time-intensive courses. All of the labor history profs assign a lot of reading, and you take an intro course your freshman year, and Prof. Gold's sophomore labor law class is infamous. You'll hear all about it during your freshman year!
If you have any questions for an ILR 07 grad you're more than welcome to PM me as well =). I went the PhD route and hope to go into academia--</p>
<p>Generally, which costs more: Living in the dorms, or living off campus?</p>
<p>Also, is it possible to live in the dorms for only the first semester and then move off campus for the second?</p>
<p>most of the time it comes out to nearly the same price living on/off campus. a lot of the time though you can find a good deal and living off campus is cheaper (including food).</p>
<p>No I don't think you can. It's very hard to break your housing contract as a freshman and I don't know why any freshman would want to live in Collegetown rather than North Campus second semester.</p>
<p>since the booklist is down right now, which textbook does hte physics class use for premeds non engineers? im assuming thats 101 or something?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I think that's physics 207. Erm, the booklist won't be up until school starts I think. But there is anotehr way to access the ISBN of the book you need by going to the cornell store website. </p>
<p>store.cornell.edu-->textbooks-->faculty and academic departments-->textbook verification-->logging in with your netID and ten picking whichever course you're looking for books for</p>
<p>Physics 101-102 or 207-208 are both acceptable for med school.</p>
<p>hey, norcalguy, where did you end up going to med school?</p>
<p>Damn man, I aint that old. I'm applying right now. So far, accepted to Tufts, Northwestern, and SLU. I'm still waiting on final decisions from 6 schools (most of them come in March).</p>
<p>How difficult is it to maintain a >3.7 gpa for an undergrad interested in law school?</p>
<p>also how does the gpa system work?</p>
<p>if you stay on top of your work and can grasp the material of your major then a 3.7 isn't impossible but you def have to work for it.</p>
<p>the gpa system is like this:
A+ : 4.3
A : 4.0
A- : 3.7
B+ : 3.3
B : 3.0
B- : 2.7</p>
<p>and so on....</p>
<p>k, thanks for your help</p>
<p>wow congrats norcal!</p>
<p>Norcalguy how could you have been accepted to both Northwestern and Tufts already if they are both ED (binding early) schools?!</p>
<p>Norcal is obviously talking about a professional program. Since Tufts has no law school, I assume he is talking about the medical school. If that is the case, Congratulations !!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>The acceptance rate at NU med is under 6 percent. Nice job!</p>
<p>hmm just wondering, whats the difference between 101/2 and 207/8 is it like a honor class</p>
<p>What do graduate schools look for when you apply?
Is it GPA and research, or do they look for involvement in the community, clubs, etc?</p>
<p>collegebound9696-thanks! Northwestern was my second to worst interview so I was really surprised they took me anyway. Only a few months left of this horrid application process.</p>
<p>anbu-Physics 101/102 is aututorial and alg-based. Physics 207 is calc-based and traditional (3 lectures, 2 labs, and 1 section). Both are adequate for the MCAT. I took physics 101/102 w/o HS physics and still scored a 15 on the Physical Sciences section so it must be good!</p>
<p>BTW: Really random: During senior year, I was in the Borders at Pyramid Mall w/ some friends and picked up one of those Naruto magazines. Looked interesting so I ended up downloading and watching a few episodes.</p>
<p>Jump-GPA is important but research and your rec letters are also very important for grad schools.</p>
<p>Just want to know; does Cornell have any sort of traditional rivalry with another uni? Like the MIT-Caltech or MIT-Harvard rivalry.</p>
<p>lol haha naruto =)</p>
<p>wow 207 is 2 labs.. =( 6 hours.. a week..? thats a killer
guess 101 for me! =D</p>
<p>oh and anyone know what textbook orgo chem uses? </p>
<p>thanks</p>