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Freshmen Reflect on First Admissions Cycle Post Affirmative Action
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The Sun surveyed six students in the class of 2028 about their reactions to Cornell’s new identity-based essay prompt added after affirmative action was overturned in 2023.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/essay/)
The Sun surveyed six students in the class of 2028 about their reactions to Cornell’s new identity-based essay prompt added after affirmative action was overturned in 2023.
The University’s new essay question will now ask applicants to reflect on Ezra Cornell’s “Any Person, Any Study” principle.
The growth of language processing models has fostered fear and misunderstanding among scholars. Some have killed the college essay entirely because of it.
First, notice that you classmates are asking the professor a lot of questions about the big paper that was due in the middle of the semester. They must be getting a crazy head start, the sycophants. Check Blackboard (it’s probably not due) and realize that the big paper is due in two days. Feel your heart momentarily stop. When exactly did it become October?