<p>Anyone know where lists of grads might be published? </p>
<p>My father graduated from C but I don’t know the year - some time in the late 1940’s. D is considering applying and it can’t hurt to mention Granddad.</p>
<p>We have a visit planned for next week and I could look him up if the lists are not online. Where would I go?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>As far as I know, there is no publicly available list of Cornell graduates due to the privacy issues involved. If you wish to find out the year that your father graduated, you might do better to call the registrar’s office and see if they might be able to help you.</p>
<p>[alumni.cornell</a> | Ask the Archivist](<a href=“http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/archivist.cfm]alumni.cornell”>http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/archivist.cfm)</p>
<p>It only works if the alum in question is deceased. </p>
<p>But frankly, unless your father was heavily involved in Cornell alumni activities, it won’t have much impact.</p>
<p>But if hes not, i’d imagine it wouldnt be that hard to find out…</p>
<p>CayugaRed is right regarding the effect being a legacy can have on your application. Even this year, many highly qualified legacy students were rejected for admission. </p>
<p>It’s not easy to find out much information about an alum if they aren’t deceased. There is a searchable alumni database, but it’s only available to Cornell alumni. If the OP’s father is not deceased, the other two options for tracking down an alum wouldn’t be helpful at all. [alumni.cornell</a> | Services | Find Cornellians](<a href=“http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/find_cornellians.cfm]alumni.cornell”>http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/find_cornellians.cfm)</p>
<p>Btw thefool…it’s Ithaca, not Ithica ;)</p>
<p>well, shouldn’t you be able to ask him if hes not deceased? and if he is, then you should be able to use what they said</p>
<p>To be considered legacy - to have parents gone to undergraduate school. To be meaningful, one needs to apply ED - use it or lose it.</p>
<p>The Cornell supplement to the Common Application asks about parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents who attended Cornell. It asks what degrees they obtained and when they attended but doesn’t say that graduate degrees are of no interest.</p>
<p>One might conclude from this that these are the only types of relatives who can give you “legacy” status. I don’t think you can conclude anything about whether having a parent, grandparent, or great-grandparent who attended as a graduate student would count. </p>
<p>If the relative who attended is a deceased grandparent, I see no great problem with putting “sometime in the 1940s” on the form. It’s better than nothing. A male grandparent who attended in the 1940s might not have attended for four consecutive years anyway; a lot of men in that generation had their college careers interrupted by military service in World War II.</p>
<p>I was really wondering if there’s a library or other location on campus that might have old yearbooks or some other archive that might give me any information. My father died many years ago - 17 to be exact as the D who’s considering C was barely 1. I don’t know much about his life back then as he didn’t talk about it much. I’d be curious if he was a member of any clubs, a frat, what classes he took, etc. </p>
<p>As far as legacy on her application, if it helps even 1% that’s more than nothing. Maybe it makes the difference between her and one of the 1000’s of other qualified kids.</p>
<p>Definitely include it, because every little thing helps.
A lot of my friends who were supremely qualified were not offered admission.
I think you should be fine with the knowledge that it was sometime in the 40’s, but certainly pursue further to maximize the benefits of legacy status.</p>
<p>I think being a legacy helped me. It gives you the edge in a tiebreaker, typically.</p>
<p>Osdad: There is a section in Uris library that has old Cornell yearbooks and other “Cornelliana.” Just ask a staff member at the security or circulation desk to help you out! Additionally, you could use the “Ask the archivist” link CayugaRed gave you.</p>