Any Person
Any Study
Policy 3.1
Campaign Numbers
Campus Connections
100

Approximate number of undergrad students at Cornell

What is 15,500?

100

Number of colleges and schools at Cornell.

What is 16? From our website: Nine undergraduate units and four graduate and professional units in Ithaca, two medical graduate and professional units in New York City, and one in Doha, Qatar.

100
The time period of a student's high school career when we need to pause specific gift discussions.

What is spring of junior year?

100

Fundraising goal and engagement goal for the campaign.

What is $5B and 200,000 alumni?

100

The university from where we recruited five of our last six university presidents, including President Martha Pollack.

What is the University of Michigan?

200

Approximate percentage of undergrads from NYS.

What is 30%?

200

The newest college or school at Cornell.

What is the Brooks School of Public Policy?

200

The gift level for international donors/funds that requires all levels of review, including University Gift Acceptance Committee.

What is $100K?

200

Affordability goal for the campaign.

What is $500M?

200

Faculty at this NYC-based university revolted in the late 1800s/early 1900s and won a lawsuit allowing them to separate and form a new medical school with Cornell, which would later become Weill Cornell Medicine.

What is NYU?

300
Approximate percentage of undergrads who are legacy.

What is 15% (Bonus points if you answered 14.7%, which is the most recent percentage for class of 2025).

300

The oldest college or school at Cornell.

What is the College of Arts & Sciences?

300

The person who needs to approve and sign gift agreements for all solicitations of $1M.

Who is Fred Van Sickle, vice president of Alumni Affairs and Development?

300

We ended FY22 with approximately how much raised toward our campaign goal of $5B?

What is $3.3B?

300

Cornell partnered with this prestigious Israeli institution of higher education to submit the winning Cornell Tech bid. 

What is Technion - Israel Institute of Technology?

400

Approximate percentage of undergrads identifying as an underrepresented minority (Note: URM is defined as American Indian (U.S.), Black (U.S), Hawaiian/Pacific Isle (U.S.) or any combination including one or more of these categories.  All students of Hispanic ethnicity, regardless of race, are also considered URM.)

What is 28%? (Actual: 27.9% for Class of 2025)

400

Percentage of undergrads who take at least one course from Bowers CIS.

What is 76%?

400

The gift level at which university general counsel needs to review gift agreements.

What is $1M?

400

This college or unit ended FY22 at more than 150% of its entire campaign goal.

What is AAP?

400

Name the other private land grant university, often included as a peer "Ivy Plus" institution.

What is MIT?

500

Approximate percentage of undergrads who are international.

What is 10%? (Actual 10.2%)

500

Cornell was the first university in the nation to establish these two schools for their respective fields.

What are the Hotel School and ILR School?

500

The minimum gift level that must be reviewed by the president and chair of board of trustees.

What is $25M?

500

The college or unit with largest annual fund goal.

What is the Lab of Ornithology?

500

Name of an outstanding university located in Palo Alto whose founders based their vision and organization for their university on Cornell (and even tried to recruit our first university president).

What is Stanford University?