Cornell University Top Questions

The students are the best thing about Cornell; it's almost impossible to not form meaningful friendships with people who are unlike anyone that you ever met during your K-12 school days. Cornell's tendency to recruit a geographically and culturally diverse student body allowed me to learn more about myself by learning more about the varied experiences of my peers it also made me realize that, although my rural upbringing had allowed me to become familiar with most of the people in my community, this familiarity came at the expense of my worldview.

Being a Physics major, the best thing from my perspective is the wonderful resources the school has in the fields of math and science. There is an abundance of research going on right here on campus, and the university even has its own particle accelerator. Continuing with the theme of facilities, the dining halls and dormitories are very nice, and the food is great and varied (for college standards). Research opportunities for undergrads are also abundant, and even freshmen can get positions.

How different everyone is. It's nice to not be stuck with a bunch of people that are all the same.

The academics are superb. If you are genuinely interested in what you've come to study, you will love Cornell. I leave some classes with a smile on my face, wanting to know more -- something that rarely happened to me in high school. My classes are inspirational.

The best thing is the options and opportunities avaliable to the student who looks for them. There is something and someone for everyone who looks for it.

Ezra Cornell said in 1868, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Cornell University comes as close to that as any university I have ever heard of. Where else can you study architecture, hotel administration, labor issues, law, dairy science, fine arts, and pretty much anything else you can think of? You can enroll in Cornell with a particular major in mind, then if that doesn't turn out to be your passion, you can find almost any other course of study without changing schools. And the campus is beautiful!

Cornell University is a very large school in terms of undergraduate students and campus size. This, in my opinion, is one of the great attributes of the school. Although it seems very intimidating at first, the number of undergraduates are separated into individual colleges and then into majors within the colleges and then by graduation year. Therefore, as a student you have the opportunity to interact with many different people, but not so many that it is overwhelming. Also, a large school offers many opportunities and a wide range of classes and extracurriculars.

The best thing about my school is the student body. Cornell is a really diverse place racially, and socially. This is the best part os Cornell because I am meeting new people that I would never have met is I had decided to go to the University of Maryland.

a lot of extracurricular activities

The resources, it's possible to get to information about anything from almost anywhere. It's phenomenol the kinds of things students have available to them here.