Cornell College
Mount Vernon, Iowa
Basic School Information
Located in Mount Vernon, Iowa
Pre- medical programs like pre-public health, pre-medicine, pre-physician's assistant, etc. As well as majors in the sciences
Tuition (including room and board: $38,700 yearly, $154,800 for everything if you don’t count scholarships
B+ average student, SAT score of at least 1745, ACT score of 23 and above
Acceptance rate: 73.6%
11:1 student to faculty ratio
4 year graduation rate 93%
1077 students
Block Schedule (1 class at a time)
Cornell College Campus
One of Loren Pope's "Colleges that Change Lives"
"America's Coolest Small Town"
Mount Vernon, Iowa
Cornell Block Schedule
Every student at Cornell College takes one class at a time four a period of eighteen days. Each day is spent in the same class until 3 pm.
All About Cornell College
Location Information:
Fun things to do in Mount Vernon, Iowa:
- Movie theater
- Boutiques
- Coral Ridge Mall
- Cedar Rapids
- Palisades-Kepler state park, limestone hiking
- Within 5 hours of 5 major cities
- Sledding down Pres Hill (a street closed off)
- Lake MacBride and Coralville Reservoir
- Chalk the Walk Festival
Weather:
- 34 inches of rain yearly
- 31 inches of snow yearly
- average 193 sunny days
- Average January low 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit
- Average July high 86 degrees Fahrenheit
Geography:
- Mount Vernon Mountain
- Cedar Rapids
- Palisades-Kepler state park
Chalk the Walk Festival
Sledding down Pres Hill
Lake Macbride
Paying for College:
I plan on paying for college through
- financial aid
- academic scholarshipg
Scholarships I am planning on applying to:
- Most scholarships offered at Cornell College (King, Trustee, Presidential, etc)
- $10,000 Swap Stories with Older Adult Scholarship
- Three Rivers Community Hospital Youth Volunteer Scholarship
- May apply for more along the way
FAFSA from deadline: June 30th
Achieving Post High School Goals:
My goals for the next two and a half years of high school include:
- Maintaining a high GPA
- Continue with my extracurricular activities (soccer, speech and debate, and volunteering at the hospital)
Classes I will take that will help with my college goals:
- Body Works
- Basic Medical skills
- Advanced Medical Skills
- Advanced Rescue Techniques
- Advanced Cert
- Sports Medicine
- Sociology and Physiology
- Calculus
- Honors Junior English
- AP English
Available Volunteer Work as Training:
Asante youth volunteering at Three Rivers Community Hospital