<p>Where we can park our car on campus so that we are closer to the admission office? How long the tour is? We would appreciate any other pertinent info as this will be our first college tour visit, thanks for help.</p>
<p>I suggest you park at the admission office on Thruston Ave and then walk over the suspension bridge onto the main campus. Then you can catch the tour that starts at Day Hall. The general tour is roughly 1/2 hour. You may then want to go to an info session at the specific undergraduate college that your interested in.</p>
<p>More info here:</p>
<p>Different colleges at Cornell have different admissions offices. The usual place you'd want to go is Day Hall (which admission office are you talking about on Thurston, Wharf?) and parking anywhere near that will be difficult. If it were me, I'd first try to park in the lot next to Sibley Hall, and if that didn't work, the football stadium garage. You're talking about doing this during the summer, so you might even be able to park in the corner lot next to Sage?</p>
<p>Here's a link for finding those: <a href="http://www.cornell.edu/maps/large.cfm/%5B/url%5D">http://www.cornell.edu/maps/large.cfm/</a></p>
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I'm talking about THE admissions office:</p>
<p>Undergraduate Admissions Office
Cornell University,
410 Thurston Avenue,
Ithaca, NY 14850-2488
Tel: 607 255-5241
Fax: 607 254-5175</p>
<p><a href="http://admissions.cornell.edu/contact/%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.cornell.edu/contact/</a></p>
<p>but you're right to direct them toward Day Hall...parking is a little easier in the summer...especially if they are there on a weekend...</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the parking at the Admissions Office on Thurston is easy and I think its always a good thing to get newcomers to walk across the suspension bridge ;)</p>
<p>My daughter and I visited Cornell last summer.</p>
<p>The information sessions/tours do NOT start at the admissions office on Thurston. Instead, buildings closer to the center of the campus are used.</p>
<p>When you arrive on campus, you go to one of the traffic booths (look on a campus map for locations). The guard in the booth will give you directions to a parking garage where you will be allowed to park. This garage is nowhere near where you want to be, but there is a lack of alternatives. Wear comfortable shoes and bring a water bottle! You're going to walk a lot before your tour even starts.</p>
<p>Also, plan to arrive on campus WAY before you actually need to be there. A crucial bridge is under repair right now (and for the entire coming year). This has created LONG and complex detours.</p>
<p>Edit: The parking garage may be in an inconvenient location, but at least it's free! At Brown and Penn, among other places, you can find yourself paying ten dollars or more just to park your car while visiting the campus.</p>
<p>You could always take a taxi or the bus if it's still running...drops you off right where you want to be.</p>
<p>they start at day hall, don't they?</p>
<p>MUnited- I think the walking tours start at Day Hall.<br>
I think the regular Cornell University Admission sessions
start at Thurston
I think the individual college admission sessions starts
at the college site (ie ILR is at Ives- Hotel is at Statler)
Can Cornell do anything more to make the process even more
confusing??</p>
<pre><code> Read the website carefully- you need alot of patience to get through the admission process at Cornell!!
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<p>In the summer, most of the regular university information sessions are in the Biotechnology Building. The rest of the year, I think they're in Thurston. The tours start at Day Hall. The individual college information sessions are all over the place.</p>
<p>Cornell is very decentralized. A lot of things, including admissions, happen at the individual college/school level rather than the university level. I don't think that the main admissions office does anything except forward documents to the individual colleges, which make their own admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Think of the admissions process as a training ground for the degree of confusion you will experience when you actually get to Cornell. ;) If you do enroll there, you will find yourself dealing separately with 1) the university as a whole, 2) your college, and 3) your major. Dealing with all this is especially interesting in those cases where your major includes people from two or more colleges (computer science and biology are examples). No single office will ever have all of the information you need. It's good training for the real world.</p>
<p>Do you guys recommend doing/seeing anything else while your there besides the general tour/info sessions?</p>
<p>If you're visiting now, it may be hard to do this, but I would try and talk to any students that may be there for the summer. Go to North Campus and check out the community centers up there (Robert Purcell and Appel). The dining halls may/may not be open, but do try to eat there if they are. Walk around the college to which you are applying to get a feel of the buildings (see if they are open).
And, of course, go downtown and visit the Commons! Many students don't even know about the great things going on in the town they go to school in; see what events are going on. I love love love Ithaca and just exploring the area is fun, even if you decide you hate [which will never happen ;)] the school.</p>
<p>The library tours (starting in Uris, I think) are pretty good. I agree that you should check out North Campus too.</p>
<p>The college info tour is different than the General Cornell tour. If you are interested in the Hotel-ILR-CALS or the other 4 colleges, I strongly suggest you do the individual college tour. The schedule of the college tour is on the website. If you have trouble finding it, tell us what school you are interested in and when you are going (summer or fall) and I'll get you the info. I truly believe the individual school tour is more important than the general University tour. In ILR it was the ILR admission staff who gave the tour when my d went. She had a lot of time to talk to the Ad counselor as there were only 2 other kids on her tour. She may have just been lucky- but I really think the personal contact was very helpful.</p>
<p>Ya my ILR info session just had one other person. I think that helps to make the ILR sessions nice n personal.</p>
<p>"I think that helps to make the ILR sessions nice n personal."</p>
<p>ha, i'm the one in charge of all of the ILR session stuff. At least I will be for next year.</p>
<p>If you are visiting, I would not worry about visiting the admissions office on Thurston. I myself have never set foot in it. You want admissions for your college, as they will be the ones who decide if you get in or not. I'd park in the stadium lot, or the municipal lot in Collegetown, or the metered lot behind Appel. From each of those you can see central, collegetown, and north respectively. Campus is pretty big and spread out so plan accordingly and concentrate on north and the area belonging to the college you are interested in. Of course spend plenty of time on central as there is plenty to see and do!</p>
<p>thanks! I managed getting the info from the website...i'll be exploring CALS this summer. Anything that people specifically interested in CALS should do upon visiting? Do they allow you to meet any professors/researchers...or is that a little too much to expect?</p>
<p>you can email some from the faculty directory and ask them to meet them on your own... I know I met some people from the business school, even though I was in high school.</p>
<p>just wanted to bring this old thread up for those asking these questions…</p>