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Consider the academic programs in the school/college you indicated above. How will you utilize them to further explore your intended major or field of interest, or general academic interests if youre undecided?
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<p>How will we utilize our major to further explore our intended major? That doesn't make sense to me. Are we supposed to talk about specific things in a major?</p>
<p>Basically how will you use their programs and facilities to further your academic and intellectual "evolution" you described in the previous essay...that's the way I read it anyway. I have about 190 words on that second question (so far).</p>
<p>It's such a weird question. Cornell should have thought of something more original, because that question is just asking us to give a canned answer.</p>
<p>no, it's asking you to pay attention to cornell's offerings and actually learn something about the university. Quite frankly, you're really not in a position to tell cornell what they should do. They probably have a good idea of what they need to do to figure out who is a good match for cornell.</p>
<p>My essay talked about specific courses, certain distribution requirements like the freshman writing seminar, and the position of chimemaster...hardly a canned answer...more like the answer from someone who read a lot of material from the school he was applying to and asked a lot of questions about it.</p>
<p>sparticus: makes sense. yea i was just wondering if that was indeed what they were asking us to do. thanks</p>
<p>Sorry if that's how my post sounded, sparticus. What I was saying -- or at least trying to say -- was that I disliked the question because it seemed to be asking for the applicant to prove how much he/she had researched the college, rather than asking to learn more about the applicant. I wasn't saying that the only kind of answer to that question would be a canned answer; I was saying that the question felt much more limiting than other essay questions from other colleges. Sorry if that didn't make sense to you.</p>
<p>no prob. i thought you were complaining because it was a difficult question to give a good answer for by saying they should get rid of it haha.</p>
<p>cornell is second banana to schools like HYP in many students' application sets. The point of the particular essay is most likely not to find out about the applicant, but to find out just what you said it seems to reveal--how much the applicant has familiarized himself with the university. If cornell is a safety for someone overqualified, there's a good chance it will show in the lack of depth and thought in the 2nd essay. If someone is overqualified but writes a very good answer to that question, their chances of getting accepted versus waitlisted are probably much higher.</p>
<p>Cornell seems to do their learning about the applicant through essay 1 and the common app essay.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tips. This is the last thing that I have to do.</p>