A three-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection, Paltrowitz was a second-team national Academic All-American as a senior. He posted an 11-2 record in singles competition during his final year while playing at No. 2 and helped Cornell jump into the ITA Top 75 team rankings during the campaign. The co-captain recorded a combined 9-5 Ivy record in singles and doubles, helping him earn second-team All-Ivy honors. Off the court, Paltrowitz was inducted into the Red Key Athletic, Golden Key and Sphinx Head honorary societies and earned the Cornell Expository Writing Award, the O'Donnell Labor Law Prize and was awarded a Meinig Family Fellowship. A member of Cornell's 400 Club, he graduated with a 4.15 GPA in Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.