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Career and Alumni Connections
F R E S H
FRESH Program Guidelines
- Students are responsible for all expenses related to the externship, including
airfare/other travel, taxis, hotel, meals, personal insurance, etc. Before applying,
you should weigh the cost
of travel, accommodation, etc. against the length of the externship (phone or
lunch informational interview to 1-2 days)
and the potential benefits you could gain during that time.
- FRESH externships are for matriculated freshmen only, as determined by
status with the Registrar's Office. To be eligible for Round 1 FRESH externships
you must:
- attend one of the General Information Meetings in Appel Commons on
either
January 22 (5:00—6:30 pm) or January 23, (6:00—7:30 pm), or contact the FRESH
Extern Office at externprograms@cornell.edu for your options.
- complete the 3 Step Application Process on-line by 7pm on February 4, 2008.
- At the Information Meeting, you will draw a lottery number to assist us
in the placement process. Lottery numbers are valued from lowest to highest. If
you have a class or work conflict and cannot attend either of the meetings,
contact the FRESH Extern office at externprograms@cornell.edu for your options.
Beginning Monday, January 28, students
will draw from a higher group of lottery numbers.
- Length of externships range from a phone or lunch informational interview to
1
to 2 days only, unless otherwise specified by
the sponsor in the listing. Make sure to check the length specified prior to applying
for the externship. Students cannot request to lengthen or shorten the
externship.
- Discuss your spring break plans with your family IN ADVANCE. If you are placed
in an externship, you are expected to accept the externship and to complete the
stated length of the externship. You must be able to commit
to the date(s) indicated, which are determined by the sponsor. If you withdraw
after being placed, you forfeit eligibility for future externships.
- You may apply for up to four externships and may be placed in only one during
the
matching
process. In addition, applicants have
the "fifth choice" option which gives us permission
to place a student in an externship that meets his/her stated geographic and career
field parameters. Students who apply and do not receive an externship may reapply
in
the
open placement
period and will be given preference for placement.
- Students who are placed assume the responsibility to attend the mandatory orientation
on February 20 and for contacting the sponsor
by February 28, 2008, and for making arrangements for the externship in a timely
manner
once
placements are assigned.
- All matriculated freshmen may apply during the Open Round if they either attended
on of
the General Information Meetings or listened to the recording and completed the
online application sections A-F and Essay Questions #1 and #2.
The Open Round is a first-come first-serve registration period on February 15
from 3-7pm in 103 Barnes Hall, Conference Room.
- Students are required to accept the online Participation/Hold Harmless Agreement
which includes these
important issues:
- Cancellation Policy: Students who cancel externships without legitimate, extrodinary circumstances
and/or adequate notice to the sponsor, or without notifying the FRESH Office (203
Barnes Hall, 255-6399), will not be allowed to participate in the winter break
Extern Program or other programs involving alumni in subsequent years. The FRESH
office reserves the right to make judgements in such cases.
- Insurance Coverage: Cornell does not provide liability insurance for me as a participant
in the Cornell FRESH Program. All externs will be required to agree to a release
form.
- Hold Harmless Agreement: All externs will be required to agree to this release statement: In exchange
for my participation in the externship program, I, the undersigned, agree on behalf
of myself, my assigns, executors, and heirs, to release, indemnify, and hold harmless
Cornell University, its trustees, officers, agents and employees for any and all
liability, damage, claim of any nature whatsoever arising out of or in any way
related to my participation in the externship program, including any act or omission
of any third party (Rescue Squad, Hospital, etc.), other than those arising out
of the sole negligence of Cornell University.
Application Instructions (pdf)
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