Lots of Questions about Cornell

WongTongTong
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:51:44 +0000

I do have one more, if anyone could help out. From high school to college, how big a jump was it academically?



It’ll vary a lot from person to person. You’ll find a lot of high school valedictorians struggling with introductory courses, while a student who may not have performed that well in high school carries on just fine. However, Cornell tries its best to ensure admitted students are highly capable of excelling here.

I certainly wasn’t near the top of my class in high school (and I went to a pretty subpar high school), so I was quite nervous coming in as a freshman. Looking back as a senior now, I’d say Cornell was much easier than high school, but I attribute that more to personal changes rather than the difficulty of academics here.