Hi I’m a junior this year and I’m thinking about applying to Cornell, possibly ED.
Though, this may sound broad and a little stupid, but what makes it special?
A lot of people see it as a “safety Ivy” though I really want to research Cornell and read what makes it unique, rather than apply to it just because it’s an Ivy.
If you “really want to research Cornell”, then I’d recommend you start here: http://www.cornell.edu/. There have been plenty of threads on this topic, and we’re not going to spend time dreaming up ways to convince you to apply ED if you won’t even bother with a Google search.
Good luck!
what makes cornell unique is that it has 7 different schools inside. you have to decide which one you want to apply to, and then do some further research about that specific school.
cause its mad cheap if your poor like me
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It’s NOT cheap.
Ha I’m not sure about the cheap comment, I live outside of New York.
But thanks anyway guys, I’ll do more research.
That is a great video^
Cornell is unique because of its location. The campus and surrounding Ithaca is truly beautiful. Cornell is also unique in its educational offerings, unlike any other Ivy or elite school.
There is truly a wide variety of studies from animals to minerals to finance to poverty to biology to physics. It is an amazing school.
Cornell is special because of the people it attracts. Without them it would just be a campus full of pretty buildings.
that video made me want to get in so much more.
It seems Cornell is not too nerdy in line with Harvard, Columbia etc yet it is Ivy league.
Great video - thanks for the link. One can really get a feel for what make Cornell such a special place after watching this. I sense that the two seniors that created this video short tribute didn't want to leave.
re # 11: “It seems Cornell is not too nerdy in line with Harvard, Columbia etc yet it is Ivy league”
It’s “not too nerdy”, and then again it’s plenty nerdy. It all depends.
e.g., Cornell is among the very most common baccalaureate schools attended by individuals who go on to get PhDs.
Cornell enrolls over 14,000 undergraduates, housed in seven distinct colleges, with different objectives, interests and academic profiles. Most stereotypes one might more accurately try to apply to a small school with a more homogeneous student body will be violated, in some good measure, by a good number of individuals at Cornell.
However, looked at from afar, from the proverbial “man on the street” my guess is the student body as an aggregate looks plenty nerdy.
There was a humerous phony “interview” with Cornell basketball team members printed, the year they went to the sweet 16, where the “players” gave Einstein-ish answers to the "reporter’"s questions. I can’t find it now. But that reflected one writer’s view, at least.
The food.
Trillium is awesome.
The huge campus. There are endless beautiful places you can go to think to yourself if you are stressed.
Visit Cornell. It has several summer programs for high school students. People fall in love with the beautiful campus, with Ithaca, and with faculty and students who are nice people to live with and learn with.
At every elite college there are some pompous jerks and some nice people. Cornell may be the only elite college where the nice people are the majority.