Another Chances Thread YES!

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm a freshman at a top 30 LAC looking for a larger school with undergrad business/social science focus....</p>

<p>High School W/UW 4.1/3.9
Rank 3/60
SAT 1 M/V/W: 650/650/720
SAT 2 US Hist/Math 1 C: 680, 720.
*Essays and interviews were the strongest section of my application.</p>

<p>EC's (All 4 years)
Model UN (Held leadership/administrative positions JR, SR year.
Varsity Hockey (Captain JR, SR yr)
Varsity Golf
Editor/Writer for our news publication.
various community service
Worked 20 Hours a week.</p>

<p>First Semester GPA: 3.917
EC's College democrats, Amnesty International, CONNPIRG, Habitat for Humanity, Intramural Ice Hockey.
-Awesome Recs.</p>

<p>I've sent apps to:</p>

<p>Cornell ILR
G-Town Mcdonough
Emory
JHU
Harvard
Dartmouth
Tufts</p>

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<p>In the running. Keep the grades high. Come up with a great reason. Write good essays. Good luck.</p>

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<p>McDonough is probable. So is Emory. Tufts is possible...</p>

<p>Dartmouth, JHU, and Harvard are unlikely without a longer track record at your college since they'll still be focusing on your high school stuff. The high school GPA/rank is great, but your test scores are very weak where it counts (V+M) for those three schools. You'd be better keeping a high GPA as you have now for another year or year and a half and applying again, though I wouldn't keep yourself from trying now.</p>

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<p>Its probably important that I note:</p>

<p>The list is more or less in order of preference
I have multiple family connections at Harvard if that means anything. </p>

<p>Brand: ILR chances?</p>

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<p>ILR is the easiest school at Cornell to get into percentage-wise. Something like 52% for the Fall 2006 transfer term. Good chances there. Give it a shot, you have nothing to lose.</p>

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<p>Ive already sent my applications to these schools. I'm pretty happy with my list, the only issue I ran into is that while I refuse to downgrade, no schools equal or better than my current school could be considered a safety.</p>

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<p>Just wanted to clarify for you guys: Cornell ILR gives GT (guaranteed transfer) status to alot of waitlisted freshman applicants.
As such the 50+% acceptance rate is from a pool of mostly GTs. (non-GT figures are not public, but I've heard from sources that its in the 20% range)</p>

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<p>I think you are wrong foxdie!</p>

<p>The data I have states that "special students are not included." I talked to several admissions people and they said that this refers to guaranteed transfers. Really, who else would it refer to? </p>

<p>I can provide the link if I can find it.</p>

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<p>That would just make my day.....I've heard both are correct however.</p>

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<p>I looked for it and can't find it. Somebody on here is bound to come by and post it hopefully. </p>

<p>Funny thing is I have a copy of it in my college binder but it doesn't have an address on it. But we've debated this before, and eventually someone from Cornell also came by and informed me that, by the numbers of those that end up matriculating to Cornell, the numbers on that data sheet must be of non-GTs.</p>

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<p>BABOOM!</p>

<p><a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Thank you, thank you...</p>

<p>Yessir, thank you very much.</p>

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<p>Lol dearsir I had a feeling it'd be you.</p>

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<p>I don't want to get my hopes up.........but WOW. ILR is far and away my #1 and I felt my essays/reasons for considering it were awesome. Now its time to play the waiting game.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the responses, does anyone have any suggestions for what could be a safety/low match ish school for me to guarantee me not having to return to my current school? The difficultly is that I refuse to downgrade, and nothing equal or better than my current school is really a sure bet.</p>

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<p>Emory is much easier...</p>

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<p>I'm considering Lehigh or Bucknell as a last app for my safety/match-ish school. I was accepted to Bucknell as a freshman, what do you guys think?</p>