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<p>Uhm… I think that you neglected to mention Harvard, Cambridge, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Princeton, University of Chicago, Oxford, Yale, Penn, and Johns Hopkins. All private universities in ARWUs top 20, along with Cornell. Furthermore, you seem to be “on your high and mighty” regarding public universities. There is nothing necessarily “bad” about public universities; some of them are excellent, and academically superior overall than to your preferred private one.</p>
<p>Except for the fact that Georgetown isn’t a public university and that “other elite colleges don’t bother with that state college thing”</p>
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<p>SJUHawk: I’m stumped! Why all the hatred? “Prestige hogs”? What happened to you?</p>
<p>addendum: Uh-oh…someone’s asking about Cornell v. Notre Dame.</p>
<p>when people on a school’s subforum are called on to have to post to defend themselves to the effect of “no I am actually not a prestige hog”, in response to a blatantly offensive allegation, a line of decorum has been crossed that violates TOS in my opinion.</p>
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<p>I was obviously being sarcastic when I knocked Georgetown’s Nursing School. Penn’s nursing school is excellent. If this country hopes to have some semblance of a working health care system in the future, it’s certainly going to need a lot more (better trained) nurses. </p>
<p>Knocking a nursing school is like knocking an agricultural school. Don’t knock the things that you need to survive.</p>
<p>@monydad, your logic actually makes perfect sense. but a couple of my good friends are frshmans at cornell now and one of my best friends will be going this fall, so im not too worried about making friends. :)</p>
<p>@rockymtnhigh, they will accept the credits as long as there is a parallel course in cornell. And since im gonna be taking generic courses like bio, econ, calc, etc. i should be fine.</p>
<p>ok i agreed with SJUHawk that the world rankings are completely off. there is NO way Georgetown is ranked in the 300s. And you have to admit that people do go to Cornell just for the ivy league prestige. Alot of people wanted me to go there just on that basis so i think that sort of thinking is not obsolete. thats the reason my friend is attending this fall (i know, its shallow of her lol). </p>
<p>however, the rich kid, rich family thing is DEFINITELY more prevalent at georgetown. I hated seeing all those ppl walking around smugly in their country club outfits. </p>
<p>i dont mind any of your guys arguements about which school is better, but any more advice on transferring?</p>
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<p>Go to Georgetown and try to forget about transferring for a while. See what life brings. And if the Cornell Chimes keep on ringing in your dreams, we’ll be here for you. :-)</p>
<p>I agree with Cayuga. I really wanted to attend Cornell, but wasn’t accepted for freshman admission and decided I was going to transfer. I went to a less expensive state school and forgot about Cornell. I got very involved with campus activities and my academics…all with the intention that I would remain at this school for four years. After my first semester, I reevaluated my priorities and decided that I really wanted to be at Cornell. </p>
<p>Transfer admission is competitive. You want to aim for a high GPA and get involved with campus organizations. If you decide that you really want to transfer, come back here and I’ll be happy to share my advice on transferring with you :)</p>
<p>thanks cayuga, thanks dewdrop :D</p>
<p>“I got very involved with campus activities and my academics…all with the intention that I would remain at this school for four years.”</p>
<p>thats the approach that i was planning to take too. i’m gonna try my best to get involved with some research stuff too</p>
<p>Just 2 more question for you guys. I don’t think i got a definite answer on this.
-Do i have a better chance at Cornell since I already got in once?
-Do i have a better chance at Cornell since I’m coming from a top-tier school like Georgetown?</p>
<p>I can speculate, but seems like one would have to be a transfer admissions officer to really know for sure. Transfer admittees may know some portion of their fellow transfer cohort, but would not know what the applicant pool from which those applicants were selected looked like, and would not be comparatively evaluating their applications.</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m confused. Can you rephrase this </p>
<p>“Transfer admittees may know some portion of their fellow transfer cohort, but would not know what the applicant pool from which those applicants were selected looked like, and would not be comparatively evaluating their applications.”</p>
<p>what I mean is, if a current student attempted to answer this question based on his experience with transfer students he knows, his conclusions would be suspect. Because:</p>
<p>1) One cannot diagnose preference just based on matriculants, one needs to see applicants as well. How does he know who was turned away?</p>
<p>2) He is not reviewing the complete qualifications of these people, he has no idea how qualified they are, beyond what school they attended.</p>
<p>To determine that a distinct preference exists for a group of schools, one would have to have data on multiple comparably qualified transfer candidates, but for school, and then see a clear pattern where the candidates from one group of schools were disproportionally selected. Holding everything else constant (test scores, GPA adjusted for school difficulty, extracurriculars, recommendations, etc). Probably nobody here has that data or has done this analysis.</p>