<p>I was reading the Cornell confessions and they are all horrible. Everyone at this university seems miserable. Not just sad but depressed and suicidal. It sounds as if this university takes highly functioning students and crushes them under insane work loads, very poor gpas and strict rules. I applied here ED after visiting the campus and must admit I am terrified to attend next year and will probably transfer to a peer ivy where people don't want to kill themselves the second they enter what should be the best four years of their lives. I am upset that I was not informed of this school's horrible atmosphere before attending. Hopefully others will not be deceived as I have about the "Ivy" Cornhell. </p>
<p>I am willing to be convinced that this school isn't as bad as it seems but as of now I have no evidence to the contrary.</p>
<p>You’re using “Cornell Confessions” to make your judgment on whether or not you will like the school?..lol</p>
<p>Have you ever thought that it may be self selecting? Maybe people with bad experiences would want to talk about them anonymously, while people with good experiences don’t feel the need to “confess” anything?</p>
<p>Have you read the confessions pages of other schools? It’s all the same stupid stuff.</p>
<p>Please tell me you’re kidding basing your decision off of that…</p>
<p>All schools may have confession pages but check out Yale’s or Penn’s. Not even close to the horror that is Cornell’s. It seems to me that no matter how you look at it, Cornell is by far the most depressing ivy school. I want to love Cornell I really do but there seems to be no reason too. Most people I have talked to view Cornell negatively and as the safety ivy which I was ok with because I wanted fit over prestige but now I am worried that Cornell is the worst of both worlds.</p>
<p>Lol ok man, continue to get depressed based off of Cornell confessions. Nobody can convince you of anything until you go to Cornell and experience it yourself.</p>
<p>I’m a parent. Whenever I visit Cornell, which would be many many times over the past 8 years, I feel the energy vibration as soon as I arrive on campus. All these brilliant young people, doing all these fascinating things!</p>
<p>My kids are not the most brilliant minds at Cornell, by any means, and they both have had a great experience, academically, socially, and (S1) athletically. Not that it’s been easy for them – but they’ve both accomplished a lot. </p>
<p>Cornell may be the easiest Ivy to get into and the hardest to graduate from – but the rigor of the academics is recognized by employers and recruiters.</p>
<p>That page is ridiculous. I’m willing to bet at least half of the posts are a joke, and it seems like only the unhappy people actually post on it. Have you seen other schools’ pages? I don’t think the concentration of negative posts is significantly different.</p>
<p>You are in control of whether you are miserable or not (obviously this does not include people who are actually depressed, for whom, by the way, there are resources to turn to). If you’re miserable, take less credits, get involved in more fun activities, or if all else fails - transfer. Expecting that you will be miserable before you even get here is a good way to end up that way, though.</p>
<p>Do you mind if I ask you what your GPA and SAT scores were? Our son had a 2270 total SAT score, SAT 2 math 2 800, SAT 2 Physics 790, 4.4 weighted GPA and tons of great extra curriculars. He did not get in to Cornell Engineering. Would like to know how you did!</p>
<p>I am not trying to come off as ungrateful I am more or less concerned that this school sucks the life out of people with its rampant grade deflation and isolation…</p>
<p>What is the current average GPA? Isn’t around 3.3? That is deflation in relation to its peer ivies. I suppose you could say they have more severe inflation but either way you look at it Cornell does not put you in as good of a position for a top law or medical school as Brown, Upenn, or Dartmouth the other bottom ivies.</p>
<p>It’s 3.4. It’s partly due to the fact that Cornell accepts more underqualified people, who have a harder time adjusting to the rigor. Also, if you work hard enough a 4.0+ is very attainable because most classes are curved.</p>
<p>I have a feeling this thread is going to degenerate into discussion about transfer students. Hope not.</p>
<p>My kid is having miserable few weeks because of 3 prelims back to back, major sorority weekend, dance recital, summer job interviews…But I have a feeling by this weekend, especially if the weather is nice, she’ll be on top of the world again. I remind her all the time that this is not high school any more. At any top tier school, students are going to be stressed with amount of work. Most students at Cornell were top 10% of of their high school class, so it is not surprising that it is going to be much harder to get As. It is shocking to get that first C or D.</p>
<p>My older kid she had the best four years of life at Cornell. She worked hard to get her GPA. The younger one is also loving it, well, maybe not right now.</p>
<p>Oldfort, I thought you said your daughter had a 4.0.</p>
<p>@Unibames</p>
<p>No, I didn’t get in off the waitlist. But come on, it’s not like waitlistees are any less qualified than transfer students. Better than having people apparently so impressionable that they assume Cornell is like Cornell Confessions.</p>
<p>“It’s 3.4. It’s partly due to the fact that Cornell accepts more under qualified people, who have a harder time adjusting to the rigor. Also, if you work hard enough a 4.0+ is very attainable because most classes are curved.”</p>
<p>That would offend the people who you would describe as “under qualified”. Cornell only takes in QUALIFIED people. </p>
<p>Anyway to the OP: I’m on the NYU confessions page and I’ve seen terrible posts as well. It’s not like what they say is true about the school. I guess those people who post generally had/ have bad experiences with the school.</p>
<p>Saugus - I have 2 kids. The older one double majored math/econ. She graduated 2 years ago. She had good enough GPA to interview at IBs, not 4.0, but she didn’t get any Cs either. The younger one just had one semester so far, and she has close to 4.0 after the first semester. She still has a long way to go at Cornell. She is pre-law, so it is going to be more important for her to hold on to her GPA.</p>
<p>It would be nice if that were true, but I know someone who had below a 1.5 last semester (taking 3 easy classes) and already dropped out, and not due to excusable factors such as family/health issues.</p>