virtual exams
First-Year Students Face Finals Season for the First Time
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As finals season quickly approaches, students express uncertainty about what is perhaps their first in-person college final after last year’s virtual testing schedule.
Admissions
Prospective Cornellians Reflect on Early Decision Application Cycle
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Cornell’s third pandemic-impacted admission cycle kicked off last Monday for Nov. 1 early decision deadline, with standardized testing continuing to be optional for prospective students.
class of 2025
New S.A. Freshman and Transfer Representatives Excited for Year Ahead
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The newly elected freshman and transfer SA representatives share their excitement to begin their new positions and address the issues they campaigned on.
Class of 2024
‘I Feel Like a Freshman’: First-Year Students and Sophomores Navigate an In-Person College Experience
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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.
Acceptance Rate
Cornell’s Class of 2025 Sees Lowest Acceptance Rate in Recent Years, Sets Records
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With one of the lowest acceptance rates and most diversity of any Cornell class in recent years, the Class of 2025 is set to start class come Thursday.
class of 2025
First Years Reflect on a More Traditional 2021 Move-In
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Though COVID risks still remained during this year’s move-in, the Class of 2025 shuffled into their new dorms free –– for the most part –– of quarantine and nasal swabs, a return to the more conventional move-in processes of the past.
admitted students
KEMPFF | Save the Campus Tour
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Now, however, I desperately want my sister (and all other prospective college students) to have the same experience that I did. Although Cornell has done a great job providing online resources to these students, it doesn’t compare. Few things replace the awe-inspiring site of Fall Creek gorge or the first-hand beauty of the Arts Quad. Seeing a place like Statler Hall online is a far cry from the living, beating heart that makes Cornell wonderful.
class of 2025
Without Campus Visits, Virtual Tours and Talks Improve Accessibility for Class of 2025 Admits
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As Cornell has ramped up its virtual tours and talks, some admitted students say stepping into the shoes of a Cornellian has never been more accessible.
Columns
BUONANNO | With the Class of 2025, Cornell Has an Opportunity to Reinvent Itself
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For those needing a bit of a refresher and for newly admitted students, your first few weeks on campus are generally pretty standard. You will be picked up your first night by an orientation leader who will bring you around to some campus-sponsored social events. If you are lucky, they’ll give you an address for a Collegetown party later that night. For those with no such luck, come 11 p.m. or so, first-years make a mass migration to Collegetown — with friends they will never see again after that week — to grovel for entry into filthy fraternity parties. Following your first night of partying (if that’s your thing), you will stumble hungover to the far reaches of campus for your class photo, only to find out that half the class ditched the event.
class of 2025
LORENZEN | So You’ve Been Accepted to Cornell as a Spring Admit—Read This
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s a FYSA, you’re like any other Cornell first-year —you’re just starting in the spring rather than the fall. You’ll have orientation with all the other FYSAs and move-in shortly before school starts in January.