Application Extension at cornell

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I'm an international student who had ontended to finish Cornell University application. I had some special circumstances with convincing my parent and now I forgot to do the application on commonapp before the deadline. I really want to join cornell and I don't know what to do. Is it possible that they could extend the deadline period or just open it for me for one day to finish my application?</p>

<p>If any one has encountered this problem and was solved please send me how.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>You need to call their admissions office and tell them what happened. Don’t be surprised, however, if they tell you that they cannot help you. You could have applied probably from late-summer or early fall until their application deadline, which was nearly a month ago. This gave you at least four months to submit your application.</p>

<p>If you really want to go there, you can attend another college for one year and apply to Cornell as a transfer student at the end of your freshman year. Other students do that, and so can you! Think positive, work hard, and get your transfer application submitted early!! Good luck!</p>

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<p>what are my chances as a transfer? I’m an international student living in Egypt, and I need to know if they’ll accept transfer from cairo university or not. My GPA is 3.95 which I guess is good. And my SAT is M 740, CR 430, WR 640, I know my CR is low but I’m an Egyptian. Do they have a minimum amount of student they admit from egypt, like if I’m the only student applying from egypt, will they admit me as a freshman or as a transfer?
Thanks anyway</p>

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<p>I don’t know about their statistics for transfer students. I thought about applying as a transfer after my freshman year, but then decided against it to save money for grad school.
Here’s what I would do in your shoes:

  1. Look at their website for Transfer applicants. See what they require and make sure you get it. Apply as soon as you can!
  2. Get one year of college under your belt with great grades and terrific letters of recommendation from professors.
  3. Spend all your free time reading and writing in English. Someone posted that Cornell doesn’t consider the Writing part of SAT, but the more you write in English, the better your reading will be.
  4. If you see something on their website for Transfer Students that you don’t understand, email them for clarification. If you have questions that aren’t answered on their website, email them.
  5. Find a professor in the Cornell department you hope to major in whose work you admire. Email that professor with comments or questions about that research or work. If I remember correctly, the Cornell admissions decisions are made by the individual colleges, so if you establish an email conversation NOW with one of their professors about their work and how you admire it/want to do the same/etc, this would probably help you get admitted as a transfer student after one year somewhere else.</p>

<p>Good luck to you!! I apply to grad schools this fall, and Cornell is definitely on my list for plant sciences! Hope we both end up there!</p>