NEW YORK-Most of Cornell’s first-year medical students have rejected early retirement.
Only seven members of Cornell’s bloated class of 119 took advantage of the school’s extraordinary offer of a year’s free $24,000 tuition to the first 15 who deferred matriculation for a year.
Cornell says the top students it accepts have a wide choice of other top schools, and it always overbooks its first-year medical class by a long shot-its bluff never called until this year. Indeed it usually has room for 10 or 20 applicants on the waiting list. So as usual, it invited 249 students to come, despite places for just 104.
But Cornell can live with eight extra students. Dr. Daniel Alonso, a dean, says they amount to just two extra cadavers. -Thomas Novembre
