Why cornell??? Any answers???

oldfort
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:33:25 +0000

So maybe showing median grades is a good thing. Now students may try to take some hard courses to show rigor of their course load. Students are suppose to stretch themselves in college. If they wanted to get easy As maybe they should go to a smaller pond.

My younger daughter was The Writer in our family. If she just tried in high school, her papers were all As. Her English and History teachers all described her as “best ever…” She did her best work on her first round of papers beginning of semester and she got B - A-. She was very discouraged with her results. She went to see her professors/TAs to go over her papers. They wanted her to elaborate more, go deeper with her analysis. She took in their suggestions and pushed herself further. She recently got a perfect score on her upper level philosophy paper.

I am very proud of her, not because of her grade, but that she is able to rise up to the occassion when pushed and she is not a whiner. I think most Cornell students are like her. I work with many young Cornell graduates. I find them to be great doers and they don’t give up when things get tough.