<p>How do people do it? It takes 5 hours just to get into NYC, and then maybe another hour to get to the airport. Do seniors miss three days of classes for each such interview?</p>
<p>Absolutely not. The interviews are next to nothing in importance to your evaluation. If offered an alumni interview take it. If you coincidentally happen to be near Ithaca, go. Otherwise you’d be very foolish to travel there just for something that will have mimimal impact on your file.</p>
<p>Interviews are required if you apply to either the architecture major or the Hotel School and are highly recommended if you are majoring in fine arts. Aside from that, interviews are not offered. So if you apply to those programs, then you have to make the interview work.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was not clear. I was referring to graduating Cornell students – seniors in college – interviewing for jobs in the real world, that kind of on-site interviews.</p>
<p>There’s an airport in Ithaca. Another in Bing. Yet another in Syracuse.
My S’10 flew from LAX to Bing with a plane change to watch S’14 graduate.
Yeah, you might have to change planes. </p>
<p>Going to NYC? Try the Campus to Campus bus.</p>
<p>Thanks, that is helpful. It looks like flying out of Ithaca to go to the West Coast or Midwest can shave off an hour to two vs taking a bus to JFK and then flying out; it does raise the price significantly though. </p>
<p>Cheaper alternatives to flying out of Ithaca may be flying out of Elmira (NY) or Scranton (PA). </p>
<p>Interesting – what are good ways to get to Elmira and Scranton from Ithaca?</p>
<p>There are buses going to both; I would assume that’s the easiest way. You will have to see whether the rates are cheap enough to justify spending money on bus fare as well. My family and I have found Scranton to be so much cheaper than Ithaca or Syracuse, though, so we almost always drive the extra two hours to the airport to fly out of there. </p>
<p>Students search for jobs all over the country, and often have to travel (especially once they get past the first interview). I imagine that like many prominent colleges, Cornell gets a lot of companies conducting initial interviews on campus. Then the applicant travels to the office for a day of follow up interviews if they make it to that round. How do you think a CMC student, or a U of Michigan, or a UT-Austin student gets to an interview in New York? It isn’t uncommon for college seniors to miss some days of class for interviewing from any college.</p>
<p>One helpful strategy is to vacate Monday and/or Friday during your senior year if you are mainly interested in west coast jobs (Choose to enroll in classes wisely). </p>