The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/application/)
As spring club recruitment commences, The Sun discusses the stressors, challenges and advantages of joining business clubs and fraternities with potential applicants and members.
All Cornell colleges and schools will remain without an SAT/ACT requirement, as Cornell Admissions announced the extension of their test-optional and test-blind policies for the Fall 2025 application cycle.
The University’s new essay question will now ask applicants to reflect on Ezra Cornell’s “Any Person, Any Study” principle.
Anticipating regular admissions decisions for the Class of 2027, current Cornellians discuss the motive behind ‘likely letters’.
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.
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.
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.
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 is a “highly difficult process and very subjective,” the interim vice provost for enrollment said during an interview with The Sun.