<p>I applied ED.
Would visiting cornell and meeting admissions officers there help them determine my application?
I really want to visit the college since I have never gotten a chance to. </p>
<p>THanks.</p>
<p>It's not gonna help at all with your application, but you should do it just to get acquainted with the campus. Tours of the campus are at Day Hall, and they take you pretty much everywhere you need to see except North Campus, which is where all the freshman dorms are. You should definitely walk over there and check it out after the official tour too.</p>
<p>Check out the area, too, not just the campus. </p>
<p>Some people have misconceptions about Ithaca, thinking that it's either much bigger or much smaller than it is. Look around a bit downtown and in the area near Pyramid Mall to get an accurate impression. Also, look around the Collegetown neighborhood. Chances are you will end up living there at some point if you go to Cornell.</p>
<p>ummm if you met with an admissions officer who would be reading your application it definitely would help...if they know who you are and like you, how is that not good. just make a very good impression. of course yea, get acquainted and stuff that's all good too.</p>
<p>Be aware that each of the colleges at Cornell have their own "admission tours" which is different than the general Cornell U tour. When my d did the ILR admission tour (ok she's a junior now- so the info may be a bit dated), there were only 3 kids getting the "grand tour" of the ILR school. As as ILR admission officer gave the tour, it was almost like having a personal session with the ILR Admission counselor. She asked questions, she e-mailed him, etc and lo and behold she got admitted. She did a similar Admission tour for Human-Ec the same day. About 25 + kids on that tour so she did not have the personal contact that she had on the ILR tour. But I do think it is worthwhile to do the individual college tour if possible.</p>
<p>You guys misunderstood me. There's really no way to go set up a personal meeting with the admissions director for the college that you applied to. (Specifically to go over your application or try to help it in some way.) Otherwise there would be enough ambitious applicants who would be doing that and wasting all of their time.</p>
<p>marny1 also has some good advice. You can go on a little information session within each respective college. You will have to make a reservation ahead of time though. They typically give you information on the school's requirements, and tell you a little about the school and its academics in general. Your results will vary depending on the school, as small schools like ILR, Hotel, AAP will have a few people, while others like CAS, Engineering, and CALS will have a lot. When I visited ILR last year, I didn't get an actual tour, just an information session in some conference room. Mary VanArsdale, the director of ILR admissions, wasn't even there so it didn't really work too well in my favor.</p>
<p>As for the surrounding area, there's really not much to check out. You'll never really go downtown to the Commons, so you can just explore that on your own one weekend when you're up here. Collegetown stores and restaurants are basically 2 or 3 blocks, so you'll get to memorize the area quickly. And the Pyramid Mall + Target is very small compared to malls in bigger areas (if you're from a more populated area). It's also a bit out of the way, so don't get lost driving there.</p>
<p>If you are from a bigger city (or even mid sized suburban area) definitely check out Ithaca. You'll either love it or hate it in my opinion... Ithaca's pretty small and Cornell's Ithaca and Ithaca's Cornell (or that's what it felt like to me while i was there for several months... except Ithaca college of course)</p>
<p>There's borders and Best Buy IN the mall. That should somewhat tell you about the size of the town... very small. Very cold. on a mountain. Very beautiful but i was really depressed while I was there because I missed my flat southern hometown...(if you get in you are going to live there for awhile. Check it out)</p>