Cornell University Top Questions

Describe how Cornell University looks to someone who's never seen it.

Caroline

Easiest Ivy League to get into and hardest to get out of

Amy

A great school for very motivated students but be careful not to get sidetracked into social life.

Paul

It is diverse, and large, and cold in the winter, challenging, exhausting at times, competitive, and huge in scope, with students that you can count on being very bright, and so different from each other; there are bright-nerds, bright-jocks, bright-jerks, bright-ditzes, bright-players, bright-hippies, bright-rich kids, bright-dreamers, with the occasional genius, and the occasional daddy's-legacy-boy, with a majority of students, even though they aren't snobbish or conceited, having no idea how privileged they are, all this demanding that you find your own smaller community to be close with.

Lea

The best school academically.

Miasarah

We work hard and play hard.

Alicia

This school has something for everyone.

Zach

Exactly as the school motto goes: Any person, any study.

Leah

It is accepting as long as you recycle and up to the point that you say you are Republican or Christian.

Yena

I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study,

Brittany

Cornell University is a competitve academic environment that gives students the opportunity to make the most of their intelligent minds.

Ginny

Cornell is a difficult, competitive yet rewarding introduction to the real world.

Rebecca

We are very intense in every aspect of being and not necessarily in a bad way.

Kaitlin

Any person, any study is our motto, & it's true! I absolutely love Cornell. It's difficult and I have a very busy schedule, but I have a ton of fun too being involved in Greek life!

Yelena

This school can provide you with any resource or program you can think of, but it's up to you to take full advantage of all of the opportunities.

Alex

A bubble of academia in the middle of nowhere.

Sharon

My school is very rigorous but you reap the benefits after you graduate.

Ji

great, excellet, place for opportunities

nicole

Cornell provides an incredible education and offers an amazing, diverse range of areas of study, and its students tend to be very focused and driven.

Christine

Any place. Any study.

Lillie

Cornell is very demanding and tests one's determination.