The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/class-of-2024/)
Following an academic year filled with Zoom classes, virtual social events and intense COVID restrictions, the Class of 2024 and the Class of 2025 have gotten a taste of their first relatively-normal collegiate year –– an experience that has posed some unexpected challenges.
RPCC Sunday brunches, Lynah Rink hockey games and Slope Day are just a few of the events that Cornell’s Class of 2024 has yet to experience, after spending their freshman year under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.
$147 and a big shopping cart were basically my Saturday afternoon in a nutshell. Five large, packed grocery bags wobbled back and forth inside the cart as I meandered my way to the bus stop. The bus came before I was there, so I had to run uphill and unload my cargo onto the decently occupied vehicle. I left the cart on the road; if you found one stranded around the Ithaca Mall, it could have been me. I apologize.
Although typically in-person, “Black Life on the Hill” turned out to be an “amazing success” virtually, joining students both new and returning together to learn about campus organizations.
Cornell saw an increase in applicants and a decrease in acceptance rate for the Class of 2024.
Despite enrollment uncertainty, Cornell received acceptances from 3,344 first-year students after May 1, a number that is higher than the University’s target.
“I don’t have any close relatives who have moved into college or had a roommate, so I was definitely looking forward to that,” said Angelica Estevez ’24
Cornell’s Class of 2024 includes at least one growing TikTok star, who rose to social media fame through sharing her college admissions journey.
Thursday’s “Ivy Day” marked a culmination of years of hard work and ambition for Cornell’s newly admitted class of 2024.
The University will no longer report application data when admission decisions are released each fall and spring — a move that arrives because the University does not want to discourage qualified applicants.