Thanks Cornell!

[judoka]

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Thanks for not mailing out my recommendations yet. I appreciate it, especially since i busted my a$$ to finish my secondaries early.

Oh yeah, thanks for charging 30K a year, not including board, and not including internet and gym.

Go big red!

 

[Eraserhead]

You're funny. I like you.

 

[soonerpillow]

Originally posted by judoka
Thanks for not mailing out my recommendations yet. I appreciate it, especially since i busted my a$$ to finish my secondaries early.

Oh yeah, thanks for charging 30K a year, not including board, and not including internet and gym.

Go big red!

minus the 30K a year, this is exactly my situation, too. Even the Big Red, part. 😀 😡

 

[HIIC]

Cornell is a piece of ****!! I went there too, they cahrge you so much and then DO NOTHING. f*ck em!

peace

the HIIC

 

[Grumpy Bear]

stop hatin' 😀 cornell's sending our letters out on Tuesday, and in two cases, they've already mailed letters out for me (I asked them to send letters to Northwestern and Stanford early so that I could make deadlines... was going to ask for Duke too, but I think it'll make it in time anyway). Donna's awesome. 😉 They're pretty confident we won't be at a disadvantage with the letter situation, and I believe them. We're all still early.

 

[marshall]

if youre lazy they give you nothing. i got thousands from them in grants and scholarships, free food, free printing and a hot girlfriend. i couldnt have asked for more except for maybe free gym. but frat houses and apartments have them built in. or know someone that works there.

 

[soonerpillow]

Originally posted by Grumpy Bear
(I asked them to send letters to Northwestern and Stanford early so that I could make deadlines... ).

Yeah, I asked my committee to send my letters to them a few weeks ago...the deadlines for both schools for me are Monday...have my letters been sent yet? Nope.

 

[mh2002ny]

I wish I read this a couple of weeks ago🙄 😱 😡🙁

 

[noy]

How could your deadlines be this soon? Early to multiple places?...

 

[Lux Aeterna]

NW and Stanford both screen. NW gives you 1 month for the letters. Stanford gives you 10 days for the secondary but wants everything in ASAP.

 

[judoka]

yeah, i had them send my stuff early to NW too...

yo, i am not lazy, i just can't get financial aid from cornell. i would go to cornell for free, but for all the money, i'd rather get the money and go some sorry state school for free.

yeah, cornell has hooked this playboy up with his share of ladies, so it's definately good for that...

 

[rjmst]

ayyo i hate cornell dog.

 

[bez2]

I would like to quell some of your concerns about the way in which Cornell handles sending out letters of recommendation.

I just graduated from Cornell and applied to medical school last summer. While Cornell does not send out letters of recommendation until the end of August, you will still be able to complete your applications before September and that is plenty early enough.

My applications were completed in late August and I started receving interviews a couple of weeks later. Furthermore many "top-tier" schools do not participate in rolling admissions so you are not put at a disadvantage if you send your application in later.

I understand that the application process is stressful, but I don't think this is something to get overly worked up about. Good luck with apps and interviews.

Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Class of 2007

GO BIG RED (I hear you with the no gym and internet thing though)

 

[pyau03]

I have conflicting feelings towards Cornell. I am a Cornell grad as well, Class of 2003, but I am quite bitter with the fact that I couldn't even get into a single med school besides that fact that I got waitlisted at two institutions. 😡 All that money for a name and nothing else! It really sucks that I did a double major in Bio & Econ there. It was such an academic suicide! I am sorry that I am ranting here but it feels really terribly aweful to work my ass off for the past 4 years and did all that work for NOTHING! If you studied in Uris, my bet is that you probably know my identity. I just feel so cheated b/c I had no social life during my college years, did nothing else besiding staying my nose in the books in the library! 🙁

PS You gotta really push Judy to give you good advice, she is quite reserved & conservative.🙄

 

[judoka]

man, if you're in uris, i was there too...i termed the phrase "struggle" to describe my life and times...the playaz call me platinum, pm me if you know who this is...

 

[bufer1]

Personally, I love cornell. ithaca may not be the most exciting city but you knew that before you came here. my advisors have been extremely helpful in this grueling application process- although i do wish they could have sent my letters out before the 19th. i say get your nose out of your mcat textbook and go enjoy the gorges before it starts snowing again..

 

[marshall]

Originally posted by pyau03
I have conflicting feelings towards Cornell. I am a Cornell grad as well, Class of 2003, but I am quite bitter with the fact that I couldn't even get into a single med school besides that fact that I got waitlisted at two institutions. 😡 All that money for a name and nothing else! It really sucks that I did a double major in Bio & Econ there. It was such an academic suicide! I am sorry that I am ranting here but it feels really terribly aweful to work my ass off for the past 4 years and did all that work for NOTHING! If you studied in Uris, my bet is that you probably know my identity. I just feel so cheated b/c I had no social life during my college years, did nothing else besiding staying my nose in the books in the library! 🙁

PS You gotta really push Judy to give you good advice, she is quite reserved & conservative.🙄

if you really spent all four years in the library and still got mediocre grades, you might want to consider forgetting medical school. econ and bio is not a death wish at all. if you didnt get into medical school you didnt have good grades / mcat. that is cornells fault? uh, no. cornell has a higher acceptance rate for medical school than a lot of other schools, including the national "average". maybe you should accept responsibility for your own actions. stop the hatin.

 

[mh2002ny]

I'm starting at Cornell this fall as a sophomore with a double major in biochemistry and physics. You people are scaring the crap out of me🙁

 

[pyau03]

My apologies if I have misled you that I "hate" Cornell. I loved it. It was the best 4 years of my life and I really cherish the diversity of the student body there. However, I just wished I had better academic advising. My Dean at College of Arts & Sciences encouraged me to keep pursuing the double major although I told him that my grades were going down the Libe Slope junior year (I was on the Dean's Lists before that). His philosophy was that one should take advantage of college education and studies whichever subject(s) that appeals to him/her. Well, I just feel that he should have warned me that humans have limits. Your brain can take only so much no matter many how many hours you spent studying. The lesson I learned is that med schools don't really care what major(s) you picked as long as you do well in them given that you have a decent number of extracurricular activities. Best of luck to those who are applying this year! Don't worry about applying to more than 25 schools, the Career Office won't actually make you pay $4 for each additional request for the HCEC packets.