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.

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.

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.

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

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

Highlight of popular majors or course of studies Art

Science Agriculture Architecture Engineering Hotel Administration Human Ecology Life science Industrial & Labor Relations

Faculty and student ratio

9:1

How many students apply The fall acceptance rate for Cornell

University is 16.2% (in 2012) out of 37,812.

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.

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

Percent of students living on campus

43% of the students live off campus and about 57% live in Cornell University's dorms

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.