Cornell University Top Questions

Cornell has a beautiful campus and is well worth the difficult and complicated travels to arrive here. The gorges and natural wonders around campus only add to the astounding architecture of all the buildings. Cornell's student body and administration is WHITE with a motive that focuses only on reputation. This means that when things happen that could scar that reputation, they put a lot of money and effort to hide the incident, even if it means lying and bending ethics to do so. Reputation is above justice at this institution. The administration sees a lot of incidents, but does not publicize or use them as education tools. As such, much of the student body remains ignorant to these events, and often the larger injustices that surround them. So, Cornell is full of highly intelligent students, but also highly socially ignorant students to the pleasure of the University at large. Acknowledge rape on campus! And Acknowledge racial injustices!

Cornell's campus is beautiful!! It is just the right size since you can always meet new people but it feels small within colleges and organizations. People are impressed when you say you go to Cornell, but I don't think students have enough spirit or Cornell pride.

Many people chose not to come to Cornell because its such a large campus. But to be completely honest, sometimes I feel its very small. It's an oxymoron, because with such a large student body somehow everyone knows everyone who actually leaves the library. There are so many subcultures (athletes, greek life, multicultural groups) at Cornell that after a week or so it won't seem so large.

Cornell is an unusual college experience. Students are many, and alcohol and drugs are abundant just as in any other school, however students are all (to some degree) obsessed with their work. I do not believe that the smartest kids from every high school come to Cornell, however, the hardest workers certainly end up here. Students work from early morning until late into the evening to earn high grades. While it is not true that students jump off bridges everyday, there is certainly an underlying stress factor in every student.

Cornell is not a very friendly campus. People do not go out of their way to meet other people or be friendly when just walking around on campus. You can only meet people in a limited number of environments. When I tell people I go to cornell, a lot of them haven't heard of it. If they have they are like "oohhh cornell you must be smart" which always makes me feel awkward. Cornell's administration is cheap and crappy. They don't care about people, nor the pursuit of knowledge. They run cornell like a corporation, not a place for growth and learning. There is not school pride in the traditional sense, like people caring about football. People have a more general pride in the fact that we are cornellians though.

The size of Cornell is the best part, there are so many different diverse people here to meet it makes classes very enjoyable.

Our school is just right. Not too big, not too small. I don't know if I would change anything. I love Cornell! I think Collegetown is a great place to hang out, especially if you're an upperclassman. It has all the restaurants and bars.

Most frequent student complaints would be about the amount of work and stress involved here at COrnell.

I wish that I could say to anyone, oh I go to Cornell, and even the dumber people would realize that that is the hardest school basically of all the ivies. But I've been asked, "Oh, Cornell College?" which is probably the most insulting thing ever. NO I GO TO AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL. Yet as I brag about how we work our asses off for a 3.0 because its impossible to get high grades, I wish that we had crazy grade inflation and could all have 4.0's. That would make me feel way better about my knowledge that I have gained here.

I love the size of Cornell. Its by far the biggest Ivy and I was daunted at first by the 3,000 freshmen but the size of the campus means that there is always something to do. Which is important for kids who think that Cornell is out in the middle of nowhere. Its great because when the weather is nice (a rarity) you can always find some place that you have never been before. Ithaca is an amazing college town filled with geriatric hippies and a fantastic farmers market where you can get anything from gluten free scones and organic produce to Thai food.