<p>I got an email today about this program and was wondering what it's all about. The website doesn't have much detailed information, so I was hoping current students could comment on it. Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>I got that too today. They said only 200 students are selected each year for it. I’m pretty happy about this.</p>
<p>I got it too! Still not sure exactly how it works. Love the prospect of research opportunities though.</p>
<p>haha, I was trying to decide colleges, and I was like “Ok, maybe I should rule out Cornell,” and then I got this. What confused me is that they offered us money. Isn’t that against Ivy rules.</p>
<p>For all the hoopla, the Ivy League is just an athletic conference. The rules of an athletic conference have nothing to do with an academic research scholarship.</p>
<p>i got it too!</p>
<p>haha i feel like these are carefully worded to circumvent the idea of “no merit schoalrships”
like its an $8,000 “research grant” for research, travel, and living expenses and theres a $4,000 “loan forgiveness” policy to help relieve the strain of research on your college payments or something hahaha</p>
<p>but it sounds awesome!
the only thing that concerns me is that looking at the past scholars, there doesnt seem to be anyone else from the FSAD program…
i feel like thats not a good sign?</p>
<p>FSAD does research as well. This is purely a research fellowship, they aren’t just giving you money to convince you to come to the school. They’re giving you money because you look like a good candidate to conduct research with a faculty based on your history. Sophomores can apply to this as well.</p>
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FSAD does research as well. This is purely a research fellowship, they aren’t just giving you money to convince you to come to the school. They’re giving you money because you look like a good candidate to conduct research with a faculty based on your history. Sophomores can apply to this as well.
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<p>yeah, I understand that.
what I meant is that I would therefore think that at least one of the Human Ecology scholars listed here might be in the FSAD program, but it seems like none of them are. </p>
<p>and I am wondering if this might be a bad sign, considering I am in the FSAD program…is the program flexible enough to permit such intense research? or does the largely pre-professional nature of the program make becoming involved in research more difficult?</p>
<p>Woot I got this too :]
Congrats everyone!</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, this grant business seems like it’s the same as doing work-study for 4 years, only it’s guaranteed you’ll have an interesting job and a fancy-shmancy title.
Take this with a grain of salt, however, because I’m trying to find reasons to go to Columbia instead of Cornell. [I got a similar “award” at Columbia, but my parents got really excited about the money supposedly involved in this one…]</p>
<p>R-CPRS isn’t just about the grant money or the loan forgiveness-- it’s about a peer network of students at the core of the undergraduate research scene. Faculty are also much more approachable, since R-CPRSers already come with their own grant money, and were selected into the highly-regarded program. </p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about a paucity of student researchers in your major (eg FSAD). All faculty are highly-involved in research, and the pre-professional majors often just have relatively few students interested in research, meaning more opportunity to closely collaborate with faculty for students who are. This was my experience in ILR.</p>
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<p>That’s a shame. You would be missing out spending four years of your life in a little slice of Heaven on Earth.</p>
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<p>Nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>Point of evidence:</p>
<p>Cornell and MIT were the only two schools to have four Goldwater scholars named today. And I don’t think it is any coincidence that three of Cornell’s four were Presidential Research Scholars.</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Chronicle: Four juniors win Goldwater scholarships](<a href=“http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/goldwaterScholars.html]Cornell”>Four Cornell juniors named Goldwater scholars | Cornell Chronicle)</p>
<p>The fourth? A Tradition fellow!</p>
<p>cayuga you said in another thread that cornell doesnt offer merit scholarships…it’d be interesting to find out how many of these hunter rawlings kids are national merit finalists</p>
<p>It would be interesting to see that. </p>
<p>It’s important to note that there is a fine line between merit aid and merit-based programs that don’t go towards the cost of tuition. The Cornell Commitment programs fall into the second category, and anybody who receives loan forgiveness through the Cornell Commitment programs qualifies for financial aid.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies guys. As of now I’m leaning towards Cornell mainly because of this program.</p>
<p>Thanks C-Red. D is a junior at Cornell. She is a Tradition Fellow (one of the 3 Cornell Commitment programs). She also has 5-6 annual outside of Cornell scholarships. </p>
<p>Each year her financial aid package seems to change (other than obvious tuition increase changes). After 1st yr. she moved off campus. You said the commitment programs do not go towards the cost of tuition. That may explain some of it.</p>
<p>Cornell has also made mistakes–there is no doubt. College financial aid can be very tedious and confusing. My H has a PhD and I have an MBA. I cannot imagine how an uneducated person can get through all the documentation and reporting–never mind disccovering the mistakes.</p>
<p>I’m so shocked they gave it to me; I REALLY don’t want to let them down.</p>