<p>I visited Cornell last summer and I absolutely loved it. It just so happened to be the day that all the new freshmen were moving in and I felt so at home there. I was just wondering what made Cornell stand out in your mind when you first visited it and why you chose/are choosing to apply. Thanks.</p>
<p>haha nvm...I just saw hello32's post...</p>
<p>Hey, I didn't visit the campus, but I have a friend there. She says that beginning the first week of school through the days of May, it's snowing and foggy. Highest suicide rate.</p>
<p>Sigh....nothing like a good Brown troll.</p>
<p>I've got your back covered perro:):</p>
<p>i hope you're not serious quiktrak...</p>
<p>Average MINIMUM Temperatures are above freezing from April through October and almost November. That means little or no snow in those months, and only the months on the fringe at that.
<a href="http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/data.pl?ref=N42W076+1304+304174C%5B/url%5D">http://www.worldclimate.com/cgi-bin/data.pl?ref=N42W076+1304+304174C</a></p>
<p>High Suicide Rate? Cornell is below the national suicide rate. That means you're less likely to commit suicide if you go to Cornell than the average American anywhere in the country, and in fact, less than half as likely as someone your age who does not go to college.
<a href="http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=622353600#question2%5B/url%5D">http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=622353600#question2</a> (see question 2)
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University#Suicides%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University#Suicides</a> (see 4.4)</p>
<p>No offense quiktrak, but all your information is straight-up incorrect. What you're doing is propagating what are both rumors and myths. Either you have a personal dislike for Cornell, or you're accidently spreading falsities. Check your facts--if you want to smear Cornell, at least use information that people can't immediately discredit with multiple sources.</p>
<p>And in the case that was a joke, smiley faces :);):p are appreciated, as they show your sarcasem/lack of seriousness.</p>
<p>Quicktrak, your "friend" who goes to Cornell obviously exaggerated. Cornell is no different than any North Eastern or Midwestern university weather-wise. September and October are pleasant, and April and May are usually quite nice. November and March are usually reasonable. Only December, January and February are bad, with holds true for all Ivy League Schools and most other North Eastern and Midwestern schools. The beauty with Cornell is that the Winter break is 5 weeks long (most other universities get 2 weeks), so you actually get to stay away for the worst part of the winter. </p>
<p>As far as suicides go, Cornell is no worse than most of its peers. The schools with the highest rates of suicide are MIT followed by Harvard. Cornell does not have a top 10 suicide rate. In fact, Cornell undergrads are generally a happy bunch. I was a graduate student at Cornell and approach Cornell with a very neutral pair of eyes...in fact, I am sometimes even overly harsh toward Cornell because I decided against it as an undergrad because Ithaca was too small for my taste. But If you loved Ithaca (it really is a charming college town) and Cornell, there is nothing to worry about. The university is amazing academically and the students are friendly and fun.</p>
<p>she's right I live in Princeton (Princeton U.) which is right by the southern end of the ivy league geographically, and snowy winter is mid/late-december to early march.</p>
<p>If Cornell really does have a lower student suicide rate than the average college, why are the gorges there infamous for people leaping to their deaths?</p>
<p>Not really Epoch. First of all, nobody said that Cornell's suicide rate is lower than the average college. But it is not higher either. Cornell's gorges are infimous precisely because it is so symbolic. A student commits suicide in a dorm room, tragic but hardly unusual. A student commits suicide by jumping off a gorge, it makes the news. It is far more dramatic and "catchy". But like I said, Harvard and MIT had more undergraduate suicides than Cornell over the last 15 years, and Cornell is more than twice larger than Harvard and almost 4 times larger than MIT. In terms of suicide rates, Cornell is right at the national average. In short, Cornell's suicide myth is just that... a myth.</p>
<p>I have to say, maybe I picked a bad weekend to visit, but I visited Cornell in late April and it was dark, dreary, snowed/rained, and was windy. I live in NJ, so I live in the Northeast also, but I have to say, there is no way you can argue that Cornell doesn't have more extreme weather. Everyone I know that has gone there says how much snow they get, and how it always seems to be dark out in the winter months. Now I'm not saying that will definitely turn me off from Cornell, I'm still applying and might possibly attend if I get in, but that is my 2 cents.</p>
<p>Dodgerblue, I am not sure where you got your facts from. Ithaca is, on average roughly 5 degrees colder than cities like Boston and NYC...and it is actually not as moist or snowy.</p>
<p>I love snow! Of course, it's also not like I haven't seen my fair share of -30 degree weather. I don't see the big deal about the weather. There are few things more beautiful than a fresh snowfall. Sure Cali may have the sun, but they don't have the snow. I am glad Ithaca does.</p>
<p>Oh, BTW, I remeber Boston being completely snowed in just this February.</p>
<p>i got my stats on the average or below average suicide rate from the web sites i linked to in above posts.</p>
<p>The suicides are not only more dramatic, but also, when anyone in Ithaca commits suicide in one of the gorges, people immediately associate that with cornell. It would be like someone getting murdered in cambridge or princeton being associated with harvard or princeton students getting murdered.</p>
<p>Maybe this year was a freak accident, but it only snowed from january to the end of march...nothing on the ground after april first. And, yes, it was winter, it was cold and gray. But fall and spring in Ithaca are indescribably beautiful, and, in my book, that alone more than made up for the winter weather.</p>
<p>can't forget that winter means skiing and sledding and snowball fights...</p>
<p>...and eating yellow snow!!!!</p>
<p>is the yellow snow most plentiful on saturday and sunday mornings?</p>
<p>Yes, as well as on friday mornings, and anytime during "study week" or winter finals....</p>
<p>I actually like Cornell winters. This is from someone from Southern California, too. :) Maybe I've become deranged from all the prelims.</p>