<p>I am applying from Georgia and I was wondering if being a non New York resident applying to a contract college will help me. I am applying to CALS for the agriculture major.</p>
<p>well the way i see it is </p>
<p>1) your applying from a southern state
2) your applying as an agg major.</p>
<p>so yeah it will be signifigantly easier to get in than say an aem major from the city.</p>
<p>I think this year in particular it will help us a bit, because if we get in, we pay full tuition, compared to the IS applicants who pay like a little more than half of full or so. Note that I’m not including F.A. and stuff, because, of course, Cornell is need-blind.
Btw, I’m from Florida.</p>
<p>ugh I miss the good ole days when 90% of contract college students were in-state, the way it was meant to be! now y’all are strolling on in from the south and midwest, ready to hand over your parents life savings to Cornell…making it harder for me! anyway, good luck. bigj11, it will definitely help you.</p>
<p>Hey, so this one is for the true souherners. Where are we gonna get some sweet tea!!!</p>
<p>I don’t know. When I tried to order some from wendys in Ithaca they looked at me funny and asked if meant iced tea. I get sweet tea from the wendys down here (Gainesville, florida) all the time. I can live without it though.</p>
<p>Aren’t you guys afraid of the cold? Even I hate the winters and I come from VT. I can’t imagine transitioning from FL to NY. Props top you.</p>
<p>I’m not afraid of a challenge hahah. Plus, a friend of mine from my high school who is now a freshman at Cornell said that she’s acclimated to the Ithaca weather, so that gives me some confidence in my ability to also accustomed to it.</p>
<p>I am a little bit worried, but I know I’ll find a way to live with it. I know it is much worse than north florida, but the humidity here makes winters feel colder than they are (but of course we don’t get any snow). My friend went to school up in Philly and said it isn’t that much worse, he hated the people there much more than the weather (although I know Ithaca is definitely colder than philly). Plus, I applied as a junior transfer (for this spring) and I would only have to endure it for 2 years.</p>
<p>oh my gosh I tried sweet tea in south carolina…that stuff’ll give you diabetes if you don’t watch out! y’all don’t call it Sweet tea for nothing…haha no wonder half the south is obese :)</p>
<p>Yeah if you’re from Florida you’ll probably find it cold, but you’ll most likely adjust…the weather is less than ideal, but it’s worth it for Cornell, I think. Haven’t you ever wanted to play in the snow? It’s fun. </p>
<p>Personally, I need 4 seasons. I can’t stand the heat all year long…and Florida’s unbearable in the summer for me. Too humid! Nice in the winter though.</p>
<p>That’s why I (along with probably most of the applicants applying to Cornell) am applying to Cornell + a whole bunch of Northern schools - we’re sick of the one season year. In all honesty, it’s not just heat all year round, but it’s time for a real change of weather.
Yes, I want snow.</p>
<p>Well, I guess it depends on what your idea of heat all year round is…I went to DisneyWorld last Winter break, and it was warm in December. Got pretty tan, too. I guess there’s 2 seasons…hot and warm. </p>
<p>I’m from LI and we’ve barely gotten any snow in the last couple of years.</p>
<p>I mean, right now, late November, it’s been lows in the 50s and highs in the high 70s, which isn’t cold, but probably not hot by most people’s standards.</p>
<p>It really depends what part of florida you are talking about. North Florida can get pretty cold (teens occasionally), and as far as going to disney world last december…last winter was the warmest I can ever remember. It has gotten much colder, much sooner this year (I think we have already had 2 freezes). I was swimming and jetskiing all last winter (live on a large lake) with only a short wetsuit on.</p>
<p>I’ve been told that once people from low humidity areas come here that after about six months it will feel much colder than if they just come down for a vacation in the winter. This same person (one of my professors) said it feels colder here than it did when he lived in Germany once he had been exposed to the humidity for a while. Humidity is the one thing I hate about florida, but as far as four seasons, I really don’t care. Ideal for me would be 80 degrees with no humidity year round.</p>
<p>As far as sweet tea…the amount of sugar can vary tremendously. I have had some that I could hardly tell had sugar, and have had some that I called liquid diabetes. Nothing has more sugar than the kool-aid the mom of a friend makes though. That stuff will put you into a coma. I end up twice as thirsty after I finish a glass of it than before I drank it, and they live off of it. I really don’t know how they aren’t all diabetic (or fat).</p>
<p>yeah DisneyWorld is in South Florida (I think lol) so it’s pretty warm, plus I was only there for like 5 days…it wasn’t really hot, just warm. 80 degrees seems pretty hot to me…my ideal is Sunny and like 65-70 degrees. I couldn’t take it that way all year round though…I need autumun and winter too! snow is always nice. not much snow for the past few years in LI, hopefully it’ll be different this year.</p>
<p>Disney is in central/north Florida (specifically Orlando, an hour or so south of Gainesville which is where UF is located). I am in south Florida. North Florida is generally colder than south Florida.</p>
<p>sorry, my florida geography is lacking…I know Miami’s down south, Tallahassee’s up north, and SeaWorld has dolphins…that’s it.</p>
<p>Haha, it’s cool. Just letting you know :).</p>
<p>Disney is a full 2 hours south of gainesville. Orlando is definitely central florida. Gainesville, jacksonville, and panhandle are what I would consider north fl. Definitely a large disparity in winter temps throughout the state because it is so long. I went to ft. lauderdale in february a few years back and it was way warmer than gainesville.</p>
<p>Panhandle is just panhandle to me. I say north/central to Orlando because I may be a little sofla-centric, but yeah, it is definitely central. I said one hour also because my brother went undergrad and now med school at UF and it takes him an hour or so to get to Orlando. But maybe that’s because my brother drives way too fast…</p>