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CORNELL UNIVERSITY

CORNELL UNIVERSITY . BY : Dania Mendez and Rebeca Pirela. Location. Is located in Ithaca, New York. Founding Year . The school was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell. l Mascot and main school color ascot. The school mascot is a bear and the main colors are red and white.

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CORNELL UNIVERSITY

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  1. CORNELL UNIVERSITY BY : Dania Mendez and Rebeca Pirela

  2. Location • Is located in Ithaca, New York.

  3. Founding Year • The school was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell.

  4. lMascot and main school colorascot • The school mascot is a bear and the main colors are red and white. • The colors were founded Herberton L. Williams • The previous colors were blank and orange.

  5. General History of the School • The two founders of the school were Andrew Dickson white of Syracuse and Ezra Cornell of Ithaca, met with the New York’s state senate in January 1864 to get permission to start a new university. Together they established Cornell University.

  6. School Population • Cornell university has a population of 22,400 • 50.1% male and 49.9% are female • 43% of the students live off campus • Student to Faculty ratio 9:1 • 699= African American • 66= American Indian • 2,283= Asian American • 6,761= White • 768= Hispanic • 1,135= International • 2,060= not specified

  7. Tuition costs as well as total living expenses • Tuition and fees =$43,413 • Housing= $8,112 • Dining= $5,566 • Books and supplies: $820 • Person= $1,680 • Total= $59,591

  8. Highlight of popular majors or course of studies • Art • Science • Agriculture • Architecture • Engineering • Hotel Administration • Human Ecology • Life science • Industrial & Labor Relations

  9. Faculty and student ratio • 9:1

  10. How many students apply • The fall acceptance rate for Cornell University is 16.2% (in 2012) out of 37,812.

  11. Percentage of students that are provided with financial aid • 54.8% of the student applied for financial aid. • 49.1% of all students received financial aid.

  12. Featured athletic programs • Baseball • Basketball • Cross country • Football • Golf • Ice hockey • Lacrosse • Polo • Heavy weight/ light weight rowing • Soccer • Swimming & diving • Squash • Tennis • Track & field • Wrestling

  13. Percent of students living on campus 43% of the students live off campus and about 57% live in Cornell University's dorms

  14. LOL<3 Fun Facts • Cornell university is the 15th best school in the country (tied with Brown University) • Bill Nye the science guy graduated from this University • Cornell was originally called Ezrabius Corpus University. Ezra wanted it to have an academic sound to it. It wasn’t until people started mispronouncing the name that it was changed to Cornell University • Cornell is in possession of the first real Pickachu in an undisclosed lab on campus. They are keeping it untrained so that it doesn’t evolve into Paichu. • A.D White was actually Ezra Cornell’s father • The Titanic was built on West Campus • Cornell has Victoria’s actual secret locked away in one of their underground tunnels.

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