News
Likely Letters Provide Reassurance, Raise Confusion Among Cornell Applicants and Current Students
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Anticipating regular admissions decisions for the Class of 2027, current Cornellians discuss the motive behind ‘likely letters’.
News
“Diversity Becomes Substitute of Racial Justice”: Stanford Professor Discusses Affirmative Action at Martin Luther King Commemorative Lecture
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Stanford Professor was featured as the guest speaker for 2023 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, where he reflected on college admissions and affirmative action.
app
Confused About Your Degree Requirements? A New App Is Here to Help You.
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Cornell seniors Constantin Miranda ’20 and Barron DuBois ’20 created the DUST Report application as an alternative tool to the College’s existing Distributed Undergraduate Student Tracking report, which can be found on Arts & Sciences’ website.
Opinion
GUEST ROOM | The Problem With Selective Organizations
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The first time I heard about how selections for exclusive organizations occurred in my freshman year, I laughed. The concept of organizations founded on the concept of selectivity was foreign to me. A close friend from high school described to me, with a straight and serious face, how slides are created with headshots and resumes, how groups of 30-40 peers judge “potential” and “professionalism” in a matter of minutes, how many hours go into this process of judging peers, how the number of applicants becomes a measure of pride, how low acceptance rates represent elite organizations and how hundreds of people subject themselves to this process every semester. She described how some of these organizations wore cloaks! What I was hearing was straight out of a Bravo TV show.
Cornell
A Tale of Two Cornells: How an Applicant to Cornell University Ended Up at Cornell College
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When Martin Rosenfeld was still a high school senior, his college application list included an Ivy League school in Ithaca. Few months later, he got into Cornell and decided to go there. But when he left for school in August of his freshman year, he headed for Iowa, not New York.
Admissions
A Look Inside How Cornell Accepts Its Students
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Admissions is a “highly difficult process and very subjective,” the interim vice provost for enrollment said during an interview with The Sun.