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Anonymous wrote:Does Cornell have a full service hospital on campus? I have a high schooler who has excellent grades in advanced classes, solid ECs, but has a medical condition which might require specialty care during her years in college. We only want her to apply to places where there is accessible and really good medical care.

Cayuga Medical Center is a full service hospital 15-20 mins off campus.
https://cayugahealth.org/.

To answer your question directly, no, the campus itself does not have a hospital, or even an infirmary that can see kids or have them stay overnight.
Cornell's (excellent) medical school and affiliated hospital are located in NYC, not Ithaca. I can't speak to how the on campus Cornell health service would manage chronic health issues, but to the degree specialty care matters to you, you should probably reach out to Cornell health to see if the could handle it, and if not, to determine accessibility (and insurance coverage) of the local hospitals.

Anonymous wrote:Cornell alum here. I have mixed feelings about my experience (30+ yrs ago) but one thing that has never happened to me is anyone saying I went to a “lesser Ivy” or similar BS. Literally no one actually says this in the real world.

Same (incl mixed feelings about my exerience there..but that was ancient history at that point). But milarly I've worked alongside smart talented people with degrees from all sorts of colleges. Literally college name matters much less for most jobs than people here think.

Re the sun, I moved to Boston after graduation and the increase in sunlight was extremely noticeable.

Anonymous wrote:A more prestigious Michigan with harsher academics, worse location, no sports culture, but more prestige.

Wow, you nailed it.

Anonymous wrote:Too many trolls on this forum who have no idea what they are talking about. Cornell is not ranked last or next to last in the Ivy League by any major publication. Cornell is a powerhouse academic institution.

US News: Princeton 1, Harvard 3, Penn 7, Cornell 12, Brown 13, Dartmouth 13, Columbia 15

Wall Street Journal: Yale 3, Princeton 4, Harvard 5, Columbia 8, Penn 9, Cornell 18, Brown 27, Dartmouth 47

Forbes: Columbia 2, Princeton 3, Harvard 6, Yale 9, Penn 10, Cornell 14, Dartmouth 17, Brown 18

QS World University Rankings: Harvard 5, Penn 15, Cornell 16, Yale 21, Princeton 25, Columbia 38, Brown 69

Times World's Top Universities: Yale 2, Harvard 6, Penn 10, Cornell 16, Brown 50, Dartmouth 61

I think it's from the perspective of so called "old money" or "multi-generation wealth", who prefers Dartmouth or Brown over Cornell.

Cornell is definitely more MC/UMC. To each their own.

Too many trolls on this forum who have no idea what they are talking about. Cornell is not ranked last or next to last in the Ivy League by any major publication. Cornell is a powerhouse academic institution.

US News: Princeton 1, Harvard 3, Penn 7, Cornell 12, Brown 13, Dartmouth 13, Columbia 15

Wall Street Journal: Yale 3, Princeton 4, Harvard 5, Columbia 8, Penn 9, Cornell 18, Brown 27, Dartmouth 47

Forbes: Columbia 2, Princeton 3, Harvard 6, Yale 9, Penn 10, Cornell 14, Dartmouth 17, Brown 18

QS World University Rankings: Harvard 5, Penn 15, Cornell 16, Yale 21, Princeton 25, Columbia 38, Brown 69

Times World's Top Universities: Yale 2, Harvard 6, Penn 10, Cornell 16, Brown 50, Dartmouth 61

Anonymous wrote:Does Cornell have a full service hospital on campus? I have a high schooler who has excellent grades in advanced classes, solid ECs, but has a medical condition which might require specialty care during her years in college. We only want her to apply to places where there is accessible and really good medical care.

Cayuga Medical Center is a full service hospital 15-20 mins off campus.
https://cayugahealth.org/.

Cornell alum here. I have mixed feelings about my experience (30+ yrs ago) but one thing that has never happened to me is anyone saying I went to a “lesser Ivy” or similar BS. Literally no one actually says this in the real world.

Anonymous wrote:My daughter graduated from Cornell engineering and I did my MBA there. It is amazing to me the way people bash Cornell on this forum. The weather is not that bad; not much different from most of New England, where I'm from. More annoying is the way some people talk about Cornell as second-rate. Cornell has top-notch programs, great recruiting, a beautiful campus, and diversity in people and programs. Your kid has to decide what they want to do, and in what part of the country. Cornell, UVA and GT are all great options.

I’m a parent of a current student who posted earlier about buying a “sun” lamp for my daughter. I do have to push back on your assertion that the weather is “not much different from New England.”

Actually it is…in terms of cloudiness. Ithaca is one of the cloudiest cities. Boston averages 159 cloudy days. Ithaca comes in at 206 days of cloudiness. That’s a real difference.

Cornell is still an amazing school.

My daughter graduated from Cornell engineering and I did my MBA there. It is amazing to me the way people bash Cornell on this forum. The weather is not that bad; not much different from most of New England, where I'm from. More annoying is the way some people talk about Cornell as second-rate. Cornell has top-notch programs, great recruiting, a beautiful campus, and diversity in people and programs. Your kid has to decide what they want to do, and in what part of the country. Cornell, UVA and GT are all great options.

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Anonymous wrote:A more prestigious Michigan with harsher academics, worse location, no sports culture, but more prestige.

lol. 10% of our local hs (ny burbs) graduating class is going to Cornell or Michigan.

LOL Mamaroneck?

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Anonymous wrote:DC is a second-year student majoring in ILR. The campus is large and sprawling, so you must enjoy walking—especially as an underclassman, since you commute from North to Central Campus for classes. The university offers excellent food and new, modern dorms for first- and second-year students.

There is a very intense pre-professional vibe here, with many students aiming for careers in investment banking, consulting, law, or medicine. Because it is a target school for IB and MBB, the environment is competitive; clubs are difficult to get into and the coursework is rigorous, with an average GPA of around 3.44.

Regarding social life, hockey games are smore popular than football. A major highlight is Slope Day, held on the last day of spring classes, which features a massive party and live concerts by top artists. This summer, DC will be interning in corporate finance/accounting for a Fortune 500 company. Overall, DC likes Cornell and would make the same choice all over again.

Did the school help with the internship or did your network?

My daughter is a sophomore there. She had a summer internship lined up this past November through on campus recruiting events. Excellent support with resume writing.

As for other aspects: Yes, it’s an intense place. Kids study hard and play hard. She really likes it and has a nice group of friends. The weather isn’t as bad as she thought it would be. I did buy her a “sun” light which she loves. She really loves her professors and has found them to be very kind and supportive.

The 6-hour drive to and from DC is a pain.

Does Cornell have a full service hospital on campus? I have a high schooler who has excellent grades in advanced classes, solid ECs, but has a medical condition which might require specialty care during her years in college. We only want her to apply to places where there is accessible and really good medical care.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is a second-year student majoring in ILR. The campus is large and sprawling, so you must enjoy walking—especially as an underclassman, since you commute from North to Central Campus for classes. The university offers excellent food and new, modern dorms for first- and second-year students.

There is a very intense pre-professional vibe here, with many students aiming for careers in investment banking, consulting, law, or medicine. Because it is a target school for IB and MBB, the environment is competitive; clubs are difficult to get into and the coursework is rigorous, with an average GPA of around 3.44.

Regarding social life, hockey games are smore popular than football. A major highlight is Slope Day, held on the last day of spring classes, which features a massive party and live concerts by top artists. This summer, DC will be interning in corporate finance/accounting for a Fortune 500 company. Overall, DC likes Cornell and would make the same choice all over again.

Did the school help with the internship or did your network?

DC networked on her own and we tried to help, but yielded no results; she ultimately secured her internship by applying through Handshake. Early on, the career resource center helped her explore various roles within finance. DC only developed an interest in finance at the start of her second year, she had significant ground to cover. The career center assisted her with resume drafting and mock interviews. She worked hard on studying the behavioral and technical questions. There are tons of on-campus recruiting events hosted by all the major banks and consulting firms, opportunities are plentiful. DC is currently interviewing for high finance internships for summer 2027, and we are keeping our fingers crossed. All of her friends so far have landed internships for this summer at major companies across different majors ranging from business, economics, public policy, engineering, ILR, and computer science.

Are the on campus recruiting events open to students from all the different colleges or only Dyson or CAS? Daughter is considering CALS.

On campus recruiting is major agnostic at Cornell so students from all the colleges can attend. This is one of the benefits of attending Cornell, at a lot of other colleges some OCR events are only available to business majors.

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Anonymous wrote:For the natural B+ students who are tutored to an A-, or legacies.

My DC is straight A, highest rigor, 1580+, not yet decided on major, but will be STEM related, possibly an engineering discipline. Some of the negative comments about Cornell make the decision to attend Cornell full pay even harder. We need more positive comments to make the decision…

I'm from a Cornell and Michigan family. They do have positive similarities. They are schools that value intellectual interests more than elitism. I was at Cornell a few years back during the early weeks of school and the freshmen were out meeting each other and getting free ice cream and doing silly photo booth type stuff. During a beautiful golden hour evening. It looked so fun for them.

My grandmother went to Cornell and my mother. A lot of Ivies didn't allow women to be part of their main colleges until quite late. Random Internet says:

"Eventually, Princeton and Yale began admitting women in 1969, with Brown University following in 1971 and Dartmouth in 1972. The lone Ivy holdout, Columbia University, did not admit women until 1983. By contrast, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania had admitted women since 1870 and 1914, respectively."

If you're going to go to an Ivy, go to one that had its values in the right place early on.

Maybe read:

https://alumni.cornell.edu/cornellians/latest/

Anonymous wrote:For the natural B+ students who are tutored to an A-, or legacies.

I actually have the opposite take. It's not a test optional school. I see it as for a naturally smart but maybe not well connected student. Compare to Priceton's admissions and come back to me.