<p>Here are some things about it: Phone service - great! 3G all around (AT&T). Private "cell phone booths" too. Internet - fast; surprisingly my Cornell ID worked and allowed me to log in. Food - my mom says I'll miss her cooking cause I will not have anything to eat... HAHAHA, not with the all you can eat buffet things going on. Such good food! There's cake, pizza, pasta, chicken, etc. etc. etc. And, there are "Today's Specials," which highly implies that there are different things everyday! I will definitely be fine with this... Bad thing is that you cannot horde the food so you can eat leftovers for later and not use a meal day... I guess I will be that guy who sits in the corner with a ton of those Ziplock containers, stashing food inside it. Weather - tsk, tsk. Today was just a really bad day (POURING rain/GUSTY wind). I actually got the wrong weather forecast as I got it down for yesterday instead of today. Good thing we brought an umbrella and jacket. But, yeah, it was a really crappy day today. I cannot believe how some people were fine with the weather in their shorts/t-shirts. Hopefully there will be better days... Dorms - Depends. One of the themed dorms I went to had a huge double room, relative to the others which only had room for two beds, a TV, two desks, and the room in the middle to move around to these three locations (the "huge" double room had enough room for two beds, two TVs, two desks, and maybe another bed). Bathrooms can be co-ed or not and the showers are like those that you find in gyms - well, the type I am talking about is basically a bathroom stall with a curtain to cover the front.</p>
<p>Hmm... Anything else you want me to comment about?
Remember, this is just from one day, so do not think this is how it will be everyday.</p>
<p>the weather will be better. it was pretty nice earlier this week, but today was totally miserable. I felt bad for any of you Cornell Days folks around, because it’s hard to look at a campus when you need to keep your head down to prevent your umbrella turning inside out…</p>
<p>Kids at Cornell Days - I went with a friend and was not tied down with my parents over my shoulder. Typical Asian parents: A mom of a female Indian said things like (with that accent of hers), “So, the dorms are not co-ed, right?” “If we want to request a roommate how can do we so?” “What was that dorm you said which was girls only?” (and then whispering to her daughter that she is to go to that dorm). However, the kids themselves seemed nice to talk to if I could have. There was one of those “super nerds” - high nasally voice with the scoff “I am so smart” attitude.
Oh, and if you are one, well at least you will make more money than me in the future (provided that you really are smart and not just a d*****). ^<em>^
I only heard one kid talking about other colleges he was considering (eavesdropped) - it was between Cornell’s CAS college, UPenn, or Duke. Pros/Cons (short) - I will continue to put out more information but will not make a full blown list of the pros and cons. Just read the whole thing and decide for yourself! ></em>> Comparison - I have only visited two other “top” colleges (and applied to many more than that): Columbia and Yale. Atmosphere wise, out of those three Yale definitely takes it. Location helps (weather) and the suites are really nice - I love these types of environments where everyone is in a community. After Yale comes Cornell and then Columbia. This is my opinion, as I hate crowded areas (NYC) and Cornell does have a West Campus where the community thing present in Yale can be found.</p>
<p>I am [going to be] a CoE student, accepted ED (wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)!</p>
<p>More questions?</p>
<p>P.S. I did not see a bear… Maybe I came in too late (around noon)?
P.S.2. I was one of those people who kept on getting his umbrella flipped inside out… It was freakin’ annoying and cold and windy.</p>
<p>I went to Cornell Days last week, and I must say, the kids there ain’t too cute… Then again, I didn’t get a chance to see a representative sample, and it was rainy one of the days.</p>
<p>I also visited last week.
What you said about Asian parents are so true
There was an Indian father who kept asking the tour guide about the all-girl housing. Unfortunately, he was not able to visit it because it’s girls only, lol.
I think in general visiting the housing is pointless, since you don’t even get to choose your housing.</p>
<p>I wonder why’s there no all boy housing. Seems kind of gender biased</p>
<p>@collegeboundin12 - I will always wonder if I could have gone further (I did get accepted in to the most prestigious CS school). Everyone thinks that. Seeing some people at my school get accepted to colleges where they should not have is just a reminder that admissions are a crapshoot. However, I will say that only the weather has made me wonder if Cornell is a great place for me. Everything else is perfect! If I could know which colleges I would have been accepted to, then obviously my thinking would change; yet, I am a scared kid who just wants to be sure he gets into someplace. So, maybe I would have changed my mind (if I could predict the future). Things which hold me back might be the financial aid from those other colleges (Cornell did give me around 40k) and the food (I do not know where else someone can top Cornell’s buffets). Right now I am really happy with my decision because life at Cornell seems fun! Even bought me some souvenirs to show off at school!</p>
<p>@captrick - I was just about to tell the Indian mom I saw that times were changing and if her daughter wanted to have sex at college that she could not stop it… all in Hindi so she sees the new generation of Indians emerging. :D</p>
<p>Collegeboundin, your perspective is very different than mine. It’s always dangerous to generalize from a very small sample. The College of Arts and Sciences has over 17,000 applicants for a class of about 1,000. Sounds very popular to me.</p>
<p>^Collegeboundin12, just to answer your previous question. In the RCPRS group meeting I went to on Friday, 1 of the kids whom I talked to was deciding between Harvard, Brown and Cornell RCPRS and he said he was definitely leaning towards Cornell RCPRS. Another Indian girl in the group was deciding between Penn, Carnegie Mellon SCS and Cornell RCPRS, and she said she was down to the latter 2. And, I overheard 2 other kids saying they were admitted to both MIT and Johns Hopkins, but were deciding to come to Cornell as RCPRS. </p>
<p>So, talking specifically about the Engineering RCPRS group at Cornell, it seems that there are a lot of cross admits between top engineering schools and this RCPRS program.</p>
<p>Saw the title on the featured threads box and assumed this was going to be about some senior at Cornell writing about what to expect regarding admission and college life at Cornell. At least I was spot on about it being about Cornell! Nice post though, especially about the food. </p>
<p>Not to sound weird or anything, did anyone who visited Cornell’s campus notice the cleanliness of the dorm bathrooms? Not that it would affect my views on Cornell or anything, it’s just a bit of a pet peeve of mine…</p>
<p>You didn’t even “apply” yet to CALS, which you are saying you want to apply to. How can you make up your mind. Get a life and ■■■■■ someone else’s board wouldn’t ya englandern. Tell me this again, did you get in or did you not. Why should i even bother. Please stop bringing in and inflating your inferiority complex everywhere on the forums. Thank you.</p>
<p>the bathrooms! well…they’re decent. not filthy, and fine showers. if you ever live in the new west campus houses, I think the modern bathrooms are their best asset!
if you have a real problem with them, you can talk to the people who must be creating the messes. for example, what I like least is when people leave food/dirt in the sinks, but that’s not intrinsic to Cornell, it’s just sloppy people rooming near me evidently.</p>
<p>If you really do want to know what makes cornell cas so attractive, it’s the option to switch out / change majors very easily once you have decided on what you want to major in (as long as you have a relatively decent grade & you don’t switch into a major completely different from what you designated in the firs tplace) or stay in A&S. For sure that’s one of the reasons why I applied there. With that wide of a range opportunities/ possibilities & cornell’s huge selection of courses in the arts and science college alone for a liberal arts education, cas certainly looked good to me. It’s actually one of the smallest liberal arts colleges if you compare only liberal arts colleges alone across the ivies but it also has the greatest freedom/diversity in course selection (next to brown and vastly different from columbia’s horrendous core). I think on liberal arts alone it might be a little weaker since cornell’s not so well known for the humanities but if you want to do sciences or if you aren’t too sure what you want to do that’s good enough. If you want to talk about desirability, the # of applicants and cross admits with other ivies & its acceptance rate relative to most of the university already show it to be quite desirable. Perhaps it’s not too much desired on the liberal arts alone though compared to the other ivies, where humanities may be stronger and that occupies a good part of an liberal arts education.</p>
<p>I don’t think the housing is one of cornell’s strengths. Some of the people also need to be a bit less sloppy, i agree. All i can say about the dorm bathrooms are that they’re “okay” at least the ones i’ve seen. The ones inside the newer buildings are much nicer.</p>
<p>This was kinda’ important for me too. I thought it would be something like one person in a bathroom at one time… Privacy issues, etc. Not the case. Sanitary conditions are good (at least in the bathrooms I went to).</p>
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<p>Oh yeah, I know - I live in NY myself. It was just absolutely dreadful that day.</p>
