走进名校丨康奈尔大学是否在你梦校中名列前茅呢？

Dr. Will Coombes

✔康奈尔大学招办副主任

✔康奈尔大学学生海外学习顾问

走进校园

吸引无数目光的“小苹果”

多年来稳居升学顾问推荐院校榜单第一名的康奈尔大学（Cornell University），是规模最大最具活力的常春藤盟校，由7个院校组成。学校建立于1865年，位于美国纽约州北部伊萨卡。这里学术成就卓越之外，也因为风景秀丽、最宜居住而文明。伊萨卡像缩小版纽约,被称之为“小苹果”, 位处山坡之上，有美丽的瀑布和公园，四季分明，植被丰富。在这里，到处彰显着文化氛围和生活情趣的大融合，因此吸引了很多著名音乐家、画家、戏剧家等驻留。

多元化国际化校园

康奈尔大学是一所包含性很强的国际化院校，从建校至今，非常重视选择学生的多样性。这也是康奈尔大学创始人为学校定下的宗旨。学生的多样性不单指性别，还包括国际、种族、信仰的多样性，还有个性、实践、思想的多样性。学校目前有3600名来自于120多个国家的国际生，全校学生41%有多元文化背景。

“Enroll in one, study in all”

康奈尔大学的学术多样性首屈一指，每年开设4000多门课程，来自100多个学术部门。本科共有80多个专业可供选择。学生们的选课自由度非常大，想要学什么课程和去哪个学院上课都取决于学生个人。除了上本学院的课程之外，也可以选择你所感兴趣的其他学院开设的课程。转专业和转学院也由学生自己选择，10%的学生毕业时的和入学时的专业并不相同。康奈尔大学奉行小班制教学，学校73%课程中的学生人数不超过30人。

申请数据大揭秘

康奈尔大学去年收到47000份申请，本科新生人数为3275人，可见录取非常严格。对于国际生的申请者，学校会考虑学生的经济状况，即支付学费的能力。学校希望招收全面发展、求知欲浓厚、成绩优异的学生。你需要展示你有什么样的学习兴趣，你打算如何利用学校的各种资源，你是一个怎样全面发展的个人。成绩是非常重要的，除了SAT和ACT之外，国际生需要提供托福或者雅思成绩。申请康奈尔大学可以通过两种方式:Common系统或universal系统。ED截止日期为11月1日，常规申请截止日期为1月2日。

Q&A

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Q:Do students usually live in university housing after their first year, if not where do they live?学生们大一之后是否可以继续住在学校宿舍里？如果不是要住在哪里？

A: A good number of students do live in university housing after their first year. For sophomore students you’re basically guaranteed on campus housing because you were in on campus housing during your freshmen year 99.9% of our students live in on campus as a freshmen so housing as a sophomore is all but guaranteed. After that, we see students move away from the residence halls, but still living close to campus for any number of reasons, sometimes it’s about friend groups that develop, sometimes it about wanting to be more in proximity of a particular part of campus, or their academic classroom setting, like where the core of their classes might be. It may also be because of a number of personal reasons but again students do remain in university housing after their freshmen year actually at a rate of more than 50% so I would say it’s significant. There are students who live on campus all four years, after the second year it’s a lottery system, and sometimes students will get campus housing but they won’t be able to live with all of their friends so they choose to live off campus.

很多学生在大一之后还是会住在学校宿舍里。大二的学生学校住宿是有保障的，因为99.9%的学生大一都住在宿舍里。大二之后很多学生搬离了宿舍，但还是会住在学校附近。比如会和朋友们住一起，或者离学校特定地点离得近些，又或者住在教室周边，每个人理由不同。值得注意的是，数据显示50%的学生在大一之后还是住在学校宿舍里的。我们有些学生甚至在宿舍住了四年，但是大二之后就很难说了，学生们更倾向与和朋友搬到一起。

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Q: How does Cornell interact with the community around them?康奈尔大学如何和周边社区互动？

A: So Cornell has launched, a number of years ago, an initiative called Engaged Cornell, which is an office on campus that helps students to locate meaningful internship and service learning activities that can happen in the larger Cornell community, it can happen elsewhere in the United States and to some extent around the world, so helping students to move outside of the campus to engage with real life activities is part of Cornell’s core values. For international students, there’s also a chance to come, once you’ve been accepted to Cornell, to come to the campus a week early and learn, it’s called the Prepare Program, and it gives you some community involvement and helps you acclimate to the local community.

康奈尔大学在很多年前推出了一个“Engaged Cornell”计划。它是一个由校园办公室为帮助学生在康奈尔社区找到有意义的实习机会和服务学习活动的计划。可以是在美国境内或者是世界各地，康奈尔大学实施这项计划的核心是让学生们走出校园，参与现实生活中的活动。对于国际学生来说，一旦你被康奈尔接受，就有机会来一个星期前来校园学习，这就是所谓的“准备计划”，它给你一些社区的参与，并帮助你适应当地社区。

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Q: What TOEFL score is required?

托福要求多少分？

A: The TOEFL is required if English is not your first language, and we have a minimum TOEFL score of 100. If you get 100, you’re able to move on 100 or higher, you can certainly move on, you don’t have to worry about getting the highest possible score on the TOEFL, just because that’s not necessarily something we’re concerned with but do your best to get the highest score you can get, if it’s more than 100 you’re able to move on to the rest of the application which is certainly far more important.

如果第一语言不是英语，那么托福分数是有要求的。学校所要求的托福分数最低是100分。如果你拿到了100分，那你肯定可以拿到更好的成绩，你有进步的空间，所以不需要担心是否能拿到托福的最高分。这不是我们衡量的关键，只要尽力做到你的最好就可以了。如果分数超过了一百分，你就可以继续准备申请的其他方面了。

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Q: International student communities at Cornell?康奈尔大学的国际学生社群如何？

A: We mentioned the student organizations earlier, and I think that is the one way that we have lots of different student communities here, international student communities certainly. We have the Caribbean students association, we have the Chinese students association, so we have a lot of different national organizations that allow students to have things in common. Very specific things in common, culture, family, those kinds of things to come together while you’re on a campus like this where really the greater opportunities, the greater desire, is that you be exposed to things that you’re not necessarily as familiar with. That is really what the experience is meant to be at a place that is a deep and broad as Cornell. And a lot of those national student associations are involved around some aspect of their culture that they would like to share for instance an earlier slide of Indian students was the Bhangra club, so it’s Indian dance. There’s a Korean drumming club, and lots of other clubs like that and a lot of the national or ethnic student clubs do like to get together with other student clubs and organizations. I used to be the faculty advisor to the Cornell Ukrainian club, and they got together with a lot of other clubs and did a “Dumplings of the World”. They made pierogi’s, and Chinese students made dumplings, and the Italian club made ravioli.

前面我们提到了校内的学生社团组织。这是我校多样性社群的一个方面，其中当然包括留学生社群。加勒比海学生组织，中国学生会，以及其他很多社团都能让留学生找到共同语言。他们在文化，家庭等具体方面的共同点使大家团结在一起，在校内共同拥有更多的机遇，追求更大的理想，感受之前并不熟悉的事物。康奈尔大学就能提供给学生这种具有深度和广度的体验。很多国际学生社团都乐于传播是自己民族的文化。像是之前图中那些跳舞的印度学生，韩国鼓俱乐部，以及其他很多国家和民族的社团。我其实担任过康奈尔大学乌克兰俱乐部的导师。这个社团的学生曾和很读其他社团合作，共同推出了“世界饺子”活动。韩国学生做小酥饼，中国学生做饺子，而印度学生做了方饺。

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Q: Benefits of a liberal arts education

文理教育的益处

A: Liberal arts is really embedded, it’s the beginning, middle and end of the experience here. Liberal arts is really just learning across different disciplines, exposure, not just doing one single thing but doing a lot of different things in terms of reading, writing, learning, conversation discussion. Thinking about how seemingly separate things will come together and interact and affect each other. I think liberal arts is more the way people think and act and are in the world today than they want to give it credit for. A liberal arts education fosters creativity. Creativity, innovative thinking, and that’s really been the hallmark of what’s driven the American economy, is a lot of creativity and innovative thinking. And so actually it was back in the 1930s that our Department of Education started requiring students to take a number of liberal arts courses no matter what they were studying. Whether they were studying engineering or architecture or just the sciences, or design. Everyone must take a certain number of liberal arts courses, and what I think the value of a liberal arts education is is that it does foster this incredible creativity, it’s not to disrespect our other fine colleges at Cornell, but sometimes pre-professional education can seem like training, you have to take this number of steps, and everybody’s learning the same thing and where does the innovation come from? I had the opportunity to visit India a couple years ago on a Fulbright grant from our government and one of the educational innovations they showcased was the creation of liberal arts colleges in India. And this is a very recent development from a number of very wealthy entrepreneurs, these are privately funded, but they did it because India has some of the best technical education in the world, the IITs, these are incredibly competitive technical institutions, but all of these people who have made a lot of money felt that that kind of education wasn’t graduating the kind of innovative thinkers who really make those big leaps and that comes from American style liberal arts education. And I firmly believe that no matter what you do, you will be better served by having exposure to that, so everyone should apply to the College of Arts and Sciences.

文理教育在康奈尔大学贯穿于学生的整个学习过程，从入学到毕业。文理教育就是学习不同领域的知识，而不仅限于某个具体专业领域。在阅读，写作，学习，对话交流方面都是如此。学生要考虑那些看似没有关联的事物如何联系到一起并相互影响。我认为文理教育更能体现在人们平时思考和行动方面。文理教育能培养创造性思维，而创造与创新能力正式推动美国经济发展的关键所在。早在二十世纪三十年代，教育部开始要求学生必修一定数量的文理课程。不论什么专业的学生都要学这些课程，不管你是工程，建筑，科学，还是设计领域的学生。每人都要学一定数量的文理课程。我认为这种文理教育非常有助于培养非凡的创造力。这当然不是说康奈尔大学其他的学院不好，但有时那些职业前的教育看起来很像是培训。比如大家都要遵照一些特定的步骤，每个人学的内容也一样。这样的话创造力如何而来？我几年前曾到访印度，见识了他们一个教育方面的创意：他们在印度创建了一所文理学院。这是由多家有钱的企业资助创办的，属于私立创办。印度在科技方面的教育有些属于全球领先，比如印度理工学院的各个校园。但他们感觉尽管赚了很多钱，但培养的学生不属于那种创造型、会思考的人才，和美国文理学院培养的人才相去甚远。我坚信不论你做什么，文理教育的经历都能使你非常受益，所以大家都应该申请读文理学院。

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