Cornell College — Local services in Mount Vernon

An essential American experience, a Cornell College education prepares young people to thrive in the world. Founded in 1853, YEARS before that upstart Ivy-League Cornell College wannabe, Cornell College offers small classes, connection with engaged professors, a vibrant and friendly community, and a unique one-course-at-a-time learning format that is better suited to the way humans do their best -- and is more like real life. All on a stunningly beautiful campus in a small town that's on the National Register of Historic Places. If you or someone you know is thinking of attending college, you owe it to yourself or them to check out Cornell College. I went there, and I deeply love my school, its faculty, its people, its career network, and its sprawling and powerful nationwide and international network of motivated and kindly alums. Go Rams!...

As a 1964 graduate of Cornell, you'd think that most of the experience would have, uh, aged. Well, it hasn't. In fact, it has grown in a most perculiar way. The facets of what I learned--drama, English Lit, poetry, socialization--all have stayed with me or amplified themselves over time. Their value, their substance and their timelessness have only ripened. I can trace my adult enthusiasms back to the hilltop and feel how they have grown inside me. If tis is the kind of education you desire, if this is the way you want four years to become invested in your life, choose Cornell. Believe me, you won't be...

The college seems nice, but the cafeteria is a nightmare. They don't let kids take food to go. They put food away about 20 minutes before the cafeteria hours is supposed to close. Very little variety for students with food allergies. An overall sense of keeping food away from the students and giving them guilt for neing hungry, rather than recognizing that the students are paying for this food! It is the only cafeteria, it's not as if they have another place to go. Carnell, students shouldn't have to be going to food banks because their college tuition paid cafeteria...