<p>so for the swim test at orientation wont it take forever/be really crowded since most people will be taking the test then?</p>
<p>It's fun. You get to meet people and chat.</p>
<p>dewdrop86: "binghamton: transfers are exempt from the swim test and from PE requirements...as long as you coming with enough credits to be considered a sophomore"</p>
<p>awesome.... I'm scared of being 90% under water.... and my skin is hella sensitive to the pool's water. </p>
<p>...
not like I already got accepted though...lol.</p>
<p>Personin: You are correct...if you come in as a sophomore you are exempt from the swim test and PE requirements</p>
<p>what if we can swim on our backs...it just takes us a while...and we hit the lane lines? -___- i just can't SEE when i'm on my back. HAHAH.</p>
<p>lol....just make sure your feet don't touch the bottom and don't grab the side wall or lane line.</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying!</p>
<p>Do I have to be naked? :(</p>
<p>no....lol</p>
<p>that would violate so many things on so many levels :-P</p>
<p>If there is any one of the transfer students want to know if the swimming test is required for transfers, read this:</p>
<p>Cornell</a> Physical Education: Transfer Students</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>When I was a freshman at Cornell (long ago), the men did indeed take the swimming test naked. Women were given ugly, shapeless, red suits to wear. The men were sent to Teagle for the test, the women went to Helen Newman. Now I'm pretty sure they let students of both sexes wear their own suits. Not sure if the test location is still assigned by sex.</p>
<p>You take it in your own suit (NOT your birthday suit BTW!) I think it goes like this: You jump in, swim 3 laps
(75 yards) one must be front crawl, one back, one your choice, with no stopping. A number of other schools require a swim test, other 2 Ivies are Columbia and Dartmouth; MIT and I don't remember who else...</p>
<p>you're right kdmom...</p>
<p>the ladies still go to Newman and the men go to Teagle....</p>
<p>I can swim well and all (took tons of swimming lessons when I was younger), but I'm really really embarrassed wearing a suit. As in, I'm not even allowed to wear any sort of sleeveless tops or even knee length skirts outside, so I'm on the conservative side. Recently, I had a school trip to the beach and I had to wear jeans inside the ocean (as in, swimming really really far out in the ocean). It was weird. </p>
<p>I'm pretty modest, so I'm thinking that I'll just put off the swim test till my junior/senior years in cornell. </p>
<p>Even though that won't really do much good.</p>
<p>You can wear a t-shirt over your suit if you want...I saw plenty of girls do it when I used to be a campus lifeguard...</p>
<p>I think the swim test is required for all entering freshman during freshman orientation--I don't think you can put it off until later. If you don't pass the swim test, you have to take swimming lessons as a PE requirement. If there is a religious reason for not wearing a bathing suit, then you should discuss this with whoever is in charge of this when you get to campus.</p>
<p>k14...moral/religious reasons are legitimate exemptions from the swim test if you talk to the right people. if you go that route they make you take some health and wellness gym class or something. but its no big deal bc you need the gym credit anyway. i would suggest pursuing that option if it really bothers you.</p>
<p>If God had wanted nudity, we would have all been born naked.</p>
<p>I must say, swimming in the ocean in jeans without a PFD is rather dangerous.</p>
<p>Well, it's not religious or anything (though I know plenty of people that have the same religion as me that are very conservative).. It's just that my parents don't allow me to wear certain types of clothes, and I eventually became really modest myself because of that. </p>
<p>I suppose, if I really had to take it freshman year, I could maybe wear a t-shirt and shorts over my swimsuit? I'll ask the person in charge if they'll let me. </p>
<p>haha it WAS hard swimming with jeans. But I'm pretty tall and we went out far enough that I could still stand w/o any trouble.</p>