<p>Are most Cornell students bright hard workers, or are there a lot of really brilliant students also? Like the kind who know almost any random trivia you ask them?</p>
<p>Excuse me for asking, but how does knowing random little pieces of junk make someone “brilliant”?</p>
<p>There’s a reason why trivia is defined as useless information.</p>
<p>to answer your question: yes, most cornell students are bright hard workers. and those bright hard workers also know when to let loose and have fun too.</p>
<p>there are those who got here by working hard and continue to work hard…</p>
<p>there are those who got here by working hard and let loose and do poorly here…</p>
<p>there are those who didnt work hard and are able to get by with their intelligence…</p>
<p>there are those who didnt work hard and are not able to get by with their intelligence alone…</p>
<p>No, lol, teh c0rnellianz are ubern00bs dat get pw4ned by teh l337 haxz0rs.</p>
<p>Dude, come on, what’s the motivation behind this question?</p>
<p>They sure aren’t stupid!</p>
<p>i’d say 1 in 5 are those uber know-it-alls </p>
<p>3 out of 5 are hard working and relatively smart </p>
<p>1 out of 5 are barely getting by</p>
<p>While our entire educational system mistakes regurgitating memorized information to score well on tests as intelligence, I challenge you to find true intellect elsewhere. </p>
<p>That is a parlor trick educational model that has hurt many very intelligent people who aren’t good at memorizing. </p>
<p>I’d say, like with any top school, most are bright, hard workers and a few are truly brilliant (not in the reguritating what a teacher told them sort of a way).</p>
<p>Yeah, I admit I didn’t put too much thought into the question. I’m just wondering how many students were always “the smart (smartest) one” in their high schools. Sometimes that means knowing random trivia, and also it means learning really quickly and having a good memory.</p>
<p>mostly hard workers average kids, id say about 1/15 are those really smart kids,</p>
<p>my memory is the worst and i learn very slowly</p>
<p>LOL. I guess we’re all in consensus on who ISN’T very smart. </p>
<p>Very good question OP.</p>
<p>Most are hardworking and bright but not people I would call exceptionally intelligent. There are a few but not many.</p>
<p>It really depends. I have not met a single kid here who studies Applied Engineering Physics and is not brilliant. </p>
<p>On the other side, the vast majority of hotel, and aem students I meet tend to be not so smart (but hard working of course). Premeds tend to fall into a similar category as well, as most I have met are not exceptionally brilliant, but somewhat smart and very hard working. In summary, it depends. There are many specialty programs at Cornell that don’t require smarts but do require talent in some specific area (i.e. hotel, architecture, etc.).</p>
<p>That one was thing I noticed, and really really liked when I was at Cornell for DHW. Everyone there is really smart and hardworking, but they’re not super geniuses that make you feel stupid. They’re normal people with above average intelligence, and I really liked that.</p>
<p>At least that’s the message I got when I visited.</p>
<p>There are 8% of Cornellians who are not smart; they fail to graduate in six years.</p>
<p>^
I’ve never figured that out… how does that happen?</p>
<p>My english teacher took 6 years to graduate… from University of North Texas 8}
Of course he said he kept taking so many random classes he just didn’t fulfill the reqs for his major because he wanted to take so many different classes.</p>
<p>taking 6 years or more to graduate would be because one only took 12 credits per semester…</p>
<p>or one took less than 12 credits per semester…</p>
<p>or one took a leave of absence to figure their life out…</p>
<p>i notice that my memory got a lot worse since i got to cornell !</p>
<p>^ or there was a lot more to memorize…</p>
<p>you’ll find a few brilliant people at state schools even… so there are bound to be some at cornell. i visited a friend at MIT over break, and sat in on a physics study session and everyone seemed brilliant. there are SOME kids like that at cornell, but not in those proportions. about 10% i’d say are on the genius level. and again, as pure ‘guess-timation,’ 60% are bright, and the last 30% are either really average intelligence/hard working or bright/lazy and don’t do well.</p>
<p>Moderately high intelligence level, low motivation, a considerable amount of apathy. But what’s important is that if you are very intelligent, very motivated, and very passionate about what you’re studying, the resources ARE there for you.</p>