I'm curious where you got this idea that Cornell is some shit-tier school someone would be less-than-thrilled to get accepted to. I speak, incidentally, AS a Cornell alumna, who does not consider myself or my education in any way inferior to Harvard. Especially in terms of Poli Sci, our department has been toe-to-toe with Harvard.
Freshmen live in 1960s-era dorms, where you are paired up with someone else. Getting a single is almost impossible, and RAs will definitely kaibosh any sort of living arrangement of non-paying non-students. I know it's pre 9-11 but security and safety of students did still matter! I remember being challenged several times entering dorms to visit my friends. Each building had an external lock so the girlfriend would not have a key. These keys are marked definitively that they are not to be copied. So either they'd have to coordinate schedules REALLY well, so that whichever of them had the key was back when the other needed them (and remember, this was pre-cell phone, so no texting or calling!)
If you bent credulity, he could have the least observant RA ever, and have a roomie flunk out after a few weeks. Someone getting married would be...yeah, I can't think of any of my alumni friends who got married during school. Afterwards, yes, but getting married WHILE attending classes? It just didn't happen back then. It would have been a HUGE social thing, a source of massive gossip among his classmates.
I'm curious where you got this idea that Cornell is some shit-tier school someone would be less-than-thrilled to get accepted to. I speak, incidentally, AS a Cornell alumna, who does not consider myself or my education in any way inferior to Harvard. Especially in terms of Poli Sci, our department has been toe-to-toe with Harvard.
I think that it's only a certain kind of hypercompetitive student who has that attitude--you know, the kind of person who regards an SAT score of 2200 as mediocre, and their parents probably started scoping out preschools right after the ultrasound, jockeying for a slot in the one that would give their kid the best chance of getting into Brown. It's ridiculous and unfounded, but there does seem to be a certain amount of snobbery there that equates competitiveness in admissions with quality.
"you know, the kind of person who regards an SAT score of 2200 as mediocre"
Given I also have this character as complaining over his ACT score of 35 and upset that anyone reading his application might be upset over an (imperceptible) drop in grades in his senior year caused by his school blowing up, I'd say he's that kind of student. ;)
That aside, the major you're looking for is Government. Here's the webpage.
Freshmen live in 1960s-era dorms, where you are paired up with someone else. Getting a single is almost impossible, and RAs will definitely kaibosh any sort of living arrangement of non-paying non-students. I know it's pre 9-11 but security and safety of students did still matter! I remember being challenged several times entering dorms to visit my friends. Each building had an external lock so the girlfriend would not have a key. These keys are marked definitively that they are not to be copied. So either they'd have to coordinate schedules REALLY well, so that whichever of them had the key was back when the other needed them (and remember, this was pre-cell phone, so no texting or calling!)
If you bent credulity, he could have the least observant RA ever, and have a roomie flunk out after a few weeks. Someone getting married would be...yeah, I can't think of any of my alumni friends who got married during school. Afterwards, yes, but getting married WHILE attending classes? It just didn't happen back then. It would have been a HUGE social thing, a source of massive gossip among his classmates.
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I think that it's only a certain kind of hypercompetitive student who has that attitude--you know, the kind of person who regards an SAT score of 2200 as mediocre, and their parents probably started scoping out preschools right after the ultrasound, jockeying for a slot in the one that would give their kid the best chance of getting into Brown. It's ridiculous and unfounded, but there does seem to be a certain amount of snobbery there that equates competitiveness in admissions with quality.
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Given I also have this character as complaining over his ACT score of 35 and upset that anyone reading his application might be upset over an (imperceptible) drop in grades in his senior year caused by his school blowing up, I'd say he's that kind of student. ;)
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