Cornell University Top Questions

Cornell is a big school - that is easy to see. This is both a wonderful thing - potential to meet a multitude of different kinds of people - but it also can be a bit daunting. There is more than enough assistance for those who feel lost or out of place - you just have to seek it out. This enormity can be frustrating in that you might spend a while trying to find friends, but once you find them, they aren't the type that are easily forgotten.

I think the weather is quite upsetting it snows too much. It gets cold very early in the season, and remains that way late into the school year. I think most people dislike this about the school, since we do not get snow days.

The most frustrating thing about Cornell is the adjustment to the weather. I am a born and raised California girl, and going to school in New York was a huge change. I had never lived in snow before. It makes it difficult to travel and get to class. It takes a lot of perseverance and motivation to get out of bed and walk a mile and a half in snow to get to a 9 am lecture. But I will say, the Cornell campus is beautiful when it's covered in snow.

There is a lack of centralization.

The most frustrating thing about Cornell is its location. There's not much for a young adult, away from home for the first time, to do.

The fact that you can put in an incredible amount of work and effort into your classes and have a pretty mediocre GPA.

Impossible prelims and prerequisites to weed out Freshman

The workload, every professor wants you to do a lot of work.

Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the crowd. I would suggest joining clubs to meet people in smaller groups.

How it's in the middle of nowhere. How it's so competitive. How it's so expensive.