A LOOK AHEAD

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

idk some of you don't seem that bright either and i definitely don't work very hard

Now wait a minute.  I didn't see anywhere it said that I had to be intelligent to post here

They dropped the eLynah entrance exam requirement about 8 years ago.[/quote]

But is there still a swimming test?

[stereax]

idk some of you don't seem that bright either and i definitely don't work very hard

Now wait a minute.  I didn't see anywhere it said that I had to be intelligent to post here

They dropped the eLynah entrance exam requirement about 8 years ago.

::whistle::

[ACM]

idk some of you don't seem that bright either and i definitely don't work very hard

Now wait a minute.  I didn't see anywhere it said that I had to be intelligent to post here

They dropped the eLynah entrance exam requirement about 8 years ago.

But is there still a swimming test?

https://scl.cornell.edu/news-events/news/water-competency-focus-modernized-swim-requirement

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

idk some of you don't seem that bright either and i definitely don't work very hard

Now wait a minute.  I didn't see anywhere it said that I had to be intelligent to post here

They dropped the eLynah entrance exam requirement about 8 years ago.

But is there still a swimming test?

https://scl.cornell.edu/news-events/news/water-competency-focus-modernized-swim-requirement

I meant for eLynah, not for Cornell in General.

[ugarte]

But is there still a swimming test?

don't tell anyone but i never took the swimming test. nobody ever asked! i knew it was a requirement but i never got a notification about how to register and that was not the first or last time i didn't do something that dependent on initiative from me.

[Snowball]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

[Dafatone]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

I remember thinking that everyone looked so slow.

Then I finished like a full length behind everyone else in my group.

[andyw2100]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

I took the lifeguard qualification course at Teagle in the fall of 1982. Any chance you were in that course, Snowball?

[Snowball]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

I took the lifeguard qualification course at Teagle in the fall of 1982. Any chance you were in that course, Snowball?

Ah no. I was qualified before. But I worked at Teagle from about 1983-1985. Did you work there?

[sah67]

But is there still a swimming test?

don't tell anyone but i never took the swimming test. nobody ever asked! i knew it was a requirement but i never got a notification about how to register and that was not the first or last time i didn't do something that dependent on initiative from me.

I almost got away with that as well, until I got an email from the registrar during April of my senior year, informing me that they were aware and that my diploma would be withheld until I completed the test (which I quickly did). So yes: they did start actually "enforcing" it at some point.

[ugarte]

But is there still a swimming test?

don't tell anyone but i never took the swimming test. nobody ever asked! i knew it was a requirement but i never got a notification about how to register and that was not the first or last time i didn't do something that dependent on initiative from me.

I almost got away with that as well, until I got an email from the registrar during April of my senior year, informing me that they were aware and that my diploma would be withheld until I completed the test (which I quickly did). So yes: they did start actually "enforcing" it at some point.

i figured maybe they didn't say anything to transfers; i'm pretty sure a friend of mine got that tap on the shoulder.

[sah67]

But is there still a swimming test?

don't tell anyone but i never took the swimming test. nobody ever asked! i knew it was a requirement but i never got a notification about how to register and that was not the first or last time i didn't do something that dependent on initiative from me.

I almost got away with that as well, until I got an email from the registrar during April of my senior year, informing me that they were aware and that my diploma would be withheld until I completed the test (which I quickly did). So yes: they did start actually "enforcing" it at some point.

i figured maybe they didn't say anything to transfers; i'm pretty sure a friend of mine got that tap on the shoulder.

I think transfers were officially exempt until very recently:

Starting in Fall 2025, transfer students entering Cornell will be required to take physical education classes for credit and meet the swim requirement.

https://scl.cornell.edu/pe/swim-requirement

[ER]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

A lot of kids aren't taught how to swim.

[dag14]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

A lot of kids aren't taught how to swim.

Students complain about the swim test but think about the number of accessible swimming holes in the Ithaca area and how dangerous many of them are even if you can swim.  I knew a student whose cousin drowned at a family picnic in Georgia.  Not only was the boy a non-swimmer, no one in the family could swim well enough to save him.  I am not sure whether this is still factual, but at the time, a lot of non-white American children were not taught how to swim.  No access to pools and/or community programs set up to teach that skill set.

[Snowball]

I was a lifeguard at Teagle in the 80s and I used to "watch over" that test. You wouldn't believe how many students flunked it.

A lot of kids aren't taught how to swim.

Students complain about the swim test but think about the number of accessible swimming holes in the Ithaca area and how dangerous many of them are even if you can swim.  I knew a student whose cousin drowned at a family picnic in Georgia.  Not only was the boy a non-swimmer, no one in the family could swim well enough to save him.  I am not sure whether this is still factual, but at the time, a lot of non-white American children were not taught how to swim.  No access to pools and/or community programs set up to teach that skill set.

That's very sad and yes it's true a lot of kids don't learn how to swim. In my experience at Cornell the students who flunked the test were mostly foreigners, where I worked at a CT lake in the summer it was mostly inner-city kids who had a lot of trouble. The test Cornell currently has is better than the "swim 25 yards" test as learning a variety of skills like floating are important.