What to see at Cornell

CT1417
Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:18:50 +0000

It is four hours from Cornell to Columbia, and then another two hours down to Penn from NYC, barring traffic. Cornell runs the Campus-to-Campus bus four times/day from Ithaca to Manhattan. The bus can drop you either at the Cornell Club (near Grand Central Terminal) or Cornell Med School (roughly 70th & York) but you would need to take taxi from med school or subways from Grand Central to reach Columbia.

Are you trying to visit these four all on one trip? If so, where to you plan to start? Brown is kind of out of the way of the route of the other three. You can travel via train from NYC to Philly, and then back up to Providence.

As to your original question: here is a blog post offering suggestions for admitted students. http://blogs.cornell.edu/admissions/2015/04/08/top-ten-things-to-do-or-see-at-cornell/

Bring comfortable shoes and prepare to walk a lot. The regular campus tour will not take you to the area where freshmen live but you can walk up there on your own. You should also walk down into Collegetown, which is adjacent to the Engineering Quad.

And a favorite of mine from three years ago:

https://vimeo.com/23897683

Enjoy!