Question about Cornell Life

LazyKid
Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:34:28 +0000

enrolled class of 2014, 90% were in the top 10% of their HS class, and the median SAT was 1410 and median ACT 32.



Not for transfer students.



I was hoping to go to med school, although not doing an engineering major, I was thinking either Biometry and Statistics, or Math. How hard is it to do good in those majors? 24/7 studying or what?



Stats and Math are still ‘hard’ majors. I dunno, I am not a math/science person and I suck at those. After high school, I did not take a single math or hard science course, and I would assume those courses would’ve been tough for me. This really depends on how good you are at those subjects, how smart you are, etc. Only you can answer that question. FYI, I didn’t find it that hard to get a GPA over 3.7+ because I picked the right major and courses for me.



And seriously dude, this is like your 20,000th question about whether it’s possible to get good grades at Cornell. The answer is YES.



I noticed the same.



Exactly. A lot of Cornellians seem to think that they’d actually have a higher GPA if they had gone to Harvard. A lot of Cornellians decry the “grade deflation” at Cornell. Neither are true by any means. There is so much more self-pitying behavior at Cornell than at other places. I don’t hear too many Harvard students whine about how tough their school is. Yet, during my 4 years at Cornell, all I heard was *****ing about the work. Easily, my least favorite aspect of being a student at Cornell. So, yes, I do think Cornell students overestimate their intelligence. Many of them don’t have the objective academic stats to sniff a shot at Harvard.



College is all about taking a balanced coursework - 1-2 core req courses + ‘easy’ elective courses to boot your GPA each semester. If you’re smart about your course selection, you will be just fine. Maybe those people who complain about how ‘hard’ Cornell is are either 1) Terrible at course selection, or, 2) Chose the wrong major for themselves, or 3) The ones who got into Cornell without sending in their SAT scores.