根据数据显示，康奈尔大学2025届收到了创纪录的67380份申请，比去年的51500份申请，增加了近16000份。

有3750名一年级学生于8月19日到达校园。家庭中第一个上大学的学生几乎占了13%的增长，这是康奈尔大学践行扩大教育机会承诺的最好证明。

这届新生来自美国的所有州（除怀俄明州之外），以及64个国家和地区，其中55%是女性，有色人种占53.1%，第一代大学生占整个2025届班级的19.4%。

Members of the new class hail from every U.S. state but Wyoming and 64 countries, and are 55% women and 53.1% communities of color. And 19.4% are first-generation college students – notable among the extraordinary diversity of this class.

近一半的新生(49.3%)将获得基于需求的经济援助，学校提供的基于需求的助学金平均超过49000美元，比去年高出约9%。

另外，转学共有5900多名申请者，录取人数为929人，将有674名转学生加入新生行列！

Nearly half of the incoming class (49.3%) will be receiving need-based financial aid, with the average need-based grant award from university sources totaling more than $49,000, about 9% higher than last year.

A total of 674 transfer students – from a pool of more than 5,900 applicants, 929 of whom were admitted – will arrive at Cornell this fall, as well.

这一届新生中，也不乏多种多样“有趣的灵魂”。

Among the incoming students is an award-winning pianist who won her first international competition at age 9; a member of Japan’s under-19 national cricket team; and a student who founded a food insecurity platform that paid off student lunch debt at 21 public schools。

Other notable incoming students:

• the founder of a nonprofit web design firm to help small businesses and startups during the pandemic;
• a student who founded a nonprofit focused on serving neuro-atypical children, especially those on the autism spectrum;
• a student who developed algorithms used to detect user proximity to COVID-19-positive individuals;
• and several who’ve received patents, designed and created PPE during the pandemic and conducted STEM-related research.

• 有一位9岁就第一次在国际比赛中获奖的钢琴家；

   

• 有一位日本19岁以下国家板球队的队员；

   

• 还有一名学生创建了一个平台，为21所公立学校的低收入家庭学生偿还了午餐债务。

   

• 一家非营利性网页设计公司的创始人，在大流行期间帮助小型企业和初创企业；

   

• 创立非营利组织的学生，专注于为非典型神经儿童提供服务，尤其是自闭症儿童；

   

• 开发用于检测用户与COVID-19 阳性个体的接近程度的算法的学生。

   

• 以及一些在大流行期间获得专利、设计和制造 PPE 并进行 STEM 相关研究的人。