<p>I don't see it at all. Challenging? Perhaps. But that's what you're there for.</p>
<p>Don't psyche yourself out. The place is awesome!</p>
<p>As for English and other humanities majors...there is tons of reading...but if that's what you like, there should not be a problem.</p>
<p>Folks - if they accept you, you are ready. Go and get yourself a top notch education. Sadly, much of your working life will seem boring compared to it, but that's a whole different story...</p>
<p>"Folks - if they accept you, you are ready."
"If you got accepted to Cornell you can handle it. "</p>
<p>You're attributing quite a bit of foresight to the admissions staff.</p>
<p>I might have this view too- but for the four people I can personally think of at this particular second who flunked out. Including my freshman year roommate. Kind of hard to forget a freshman year rommate. And one of my best friends who spent most of his time there on academic probation. A great success today, by the way.</p>
<p>I'm not claiming the refugees are an unusually large amount as a % or anything, I don't think they are. But still I think your assertion is a bit overstated.</p>
<p>Everyplace has good points and bad points, and thinking seriously about likely work load and your probable relationship with it is totally appropriate IMO. Don't rely solely on the judgement of some anonymous admissions staffer, in the end they won't be the ones left doing the work and living in a possibly undesirably stressful environment. Investigate and decide for yourself how well you might handle it. Compared to your alternatives, and as one factor only, out of many.</p>
<p>i'd like to twist wharfrat's statement to say something like: if admissions accepted you (which they did), they must have reason to believe that you have the ability to do very well at this school. Obviously, if you screw off all the time, you will likely be very dissapointed with your grades, but admissions saw the potential to be very successful and thrive at a place like Cornell.</p>
<p>a suitable twist gome, if I do say so myself...</p>
<p>Monydad - I too saw a few people flunking out...we even gave it a nick name - the squares club - you could be a member if when you squared your GPA it became a smaller number! - LOL - a number of those people took some time off and came back and thrived.. and like your friend have been very successful in life..."A" students come back as professors. "C" students come back and make large gifts to the endowment!</p>
<p>The bottom line is these members of the squares club would have had the same thing happen to them whether they were at Yale, Dartmouth, or Duke... the freedom of the social scene got the better of them and they needed to gain a little maturity...</p>
<p>But as you said nothing wrong with Prospective Students trying to grasp what a given college is all about...</p>
<p>I'd just hate for a kid to miss out on the "Cornell Experience" becuase a neighbor had heard that it was some sort of pressure cooker...If anything it might be too much of a play ground!</p>
<p>I'm having the time of my life here, and so are most people I know. Honestly, the pressure isn't that bad. Then again, I'm not an engineer, but I tried a semester of premed. It wasn't awful, but I hate science, so I natrually switched majors.</p>
<p>Haha, you're going to cry when you fail your chem prelims and do 8 standard deviations below the mean in intro biology, even though that's like statisically impossible. Then you will succumb to alcoholism, drop out of Cornell and go back to your elitist high school as a super-senior. Yes, Sarp, that is your destiny.</p>
<p>hahaha maybe if i had come from a PS like you, but ya know...i think im pretty well prepped thanks. ive been taken essay tests every 2 weeks on 6 chapters of material and have managed to pull As my senior year. i think i can handle cornell. though i do hope it is a new challenge. thanks for the concern though, AMANDA</p>
<p>I actually know someone doing engineering and pre-med...he's also president of 2 clubs and does a lot of stuff outside of classes. Although he does so much, he still is really happy with his time here.</p>