Cornell 2008 Early Decision Numbers
Julie has the ED acceptance rate for 2008. It was 36.6%, the same as last year. Go class of 2012!
Cornell Sun Pays For Vacation For Four to China
The Cornell Sun has just paid for four of its members to go on a 10-day vacation in China. The lucky ones are Rebecca Shoval, Jonny Lieberman, Matt Hintsa, and Rebecca Weiss according to posts in the The Sun In China category. I’m horribly jealous; I want a paid China vacation, too!
A view of their current homepage
To send four people to China would cost quite a bit. Per person, the expenses break down to roughly:
- $1000 for the flight
- $150 per night at a hotel
- $100 per day for food / siteseeing
The grand total for the Sun trip is then probably in the range of 4 * $1000 + 4 * 10 * $250 = $14,000. Granted it’s not a lot of money, but until now I wasn’t aware they were profitable, let alone banking it! Oh whoops, I lied. They had help, according to this Special Thanks story:
Special thanks to Mao Ye grad and Shawn Kong grad for helping to organize this trip; Pei Zhu ‘11 and Yun Yun Cai ‘11 for acting as translators and tour guides; The Sun Alumni Association for helping support the trip; Shanghai Publishing Museum, Guangming Daily, China Campus, Youth Renmin…
It sounds like the trip was a great deal of fun, but for the Sun, not a lot of success. So far all they have to show for it is a handful of brief blog-style entries of a few hundred words describing things about China which are already pretty well know if you were to stretch your finger and read a real blog about China, like Shanghaiist or ESWN.
