Requirements

College/School Eligibility:

  • Agriculture and Life Sciences

Class Year Eligibility:

  • First Year (undergrad)
  • Second Year (undergrad)
  • Third Year (undergrad)

Open to:

  • Cornell Undergraduate Students

GPA Requirements:

Minimum GPA: 2.75

Applicants must meet the following eligibility:

  • Minimum GPA of 2.75 at time of application;
  • Currently enrolled in an undergraduate major in CALS;
  • Returning to Cornell for the Fall semester;
  • Students must be able to commit to working full-time for the duration of the internship. Interns are not permitted to hold other full-time jobs. Selected interns must participate fully in pre-departure sessions, including in-person pre-departure and post-internship sessions.
  • Interns are required to complete a mid-internship survey and a concluding evaluation survey. 

  • No additional language requirements beyond English.

     

Students who are accepted into the CALS Global Fellows Program will be required to complete 4 parts of the program:

  • An in-person 7-week, Spring (session 2) pre-engagement 1 credit course ALS 2300, focusing on health and safety, cultural awareness, logistics and more. 
  • a continuous 7–8-week internship or research placement in an international setting
  • and a 7-week, 1 credit post-engagement course in the first half of the Fall 2025 semester (ALS/GDEV 3105)
  • Poster Symposium in Fall 2025

We encourage you to apply to your first-choice program only. There is a space within the application to indicate if you have a second choice. If you are interested in two opportunities that are very different from one another and would prefer to write two statements of purpose, you may upload both to the same application in ONE document. Make sure they are clearly titled with the correct placement opportunity IF you are writing two statements.  

You may preview the application without starting an application by clicking on the “preview application” button next to the apply button. All applications contain the same questions and all information related to the program can be found within the experience page. There is no additional information within the application.