<p>During Spring many people turned in their midterm reports weeks after the deadline. A little late should be fine.</p>
<p>Just for your information… i don’t know if this will help some people out, but I got this email today from CALS, and I hope this helps especially to those people who have helped me :).</p>
<p>For Bio requirements:
If you are considering transferring as a sophomore, we can be more flexible with the required courses. Please note that preference is given to applicants who have all of the requirements met. Although you can apply for transfer admission without having these courses completed, we recommend having the course completed or at least in progress to have a more competitive application. </p>
<p>For Mid Term Grade Report:
It will be fine to submit your mid term grade report after the application deadline.</p>
<p>Those comments are from CALS admissions.</p>
<p>for people having a B or something in Bio courses, why dont u guys promise with the teachers that u guys will make up the bad grades in the next exams. i never ask my teacher for this but last week when i asked my physics teacher to give me a midterm grade for the course, i saw someone asking the teacher to give him an A while he only got B on the exam (he got all A for the quizzes though) and the teacher gave him A.</p>
<p>"If you are considering transferring as a sophomore, we can be more flexible with the required courses. "</p>
<p>How do we know whether we are transferring as sophomore or junior? There is no way to choose which we are considering, right?</p>
<p>there’s a choice for it on the application supplement right?</p>
<p>If you are a freshman right now, you are basically transferring as a sophomore; if you are a sophomore right now, you are transferring as a junior. That is what I think.</p>
<p>Oh, I also think it depends on your credits. I don’t know. I just know that I am transferring as a sophomore.</p>
<p>I would be scared to ask my professor to do that =/ lol she’s uptight about rules and all
How horrible would a B/B- in bio look? I pretty much have As’ in all my other classes I believe. I am applying to CAL earth sciences and I definitely have an A in that class. </p>
<p>luckeyg: Can you please give me the email address you used to contact them? Also how long did they take to respond? thanks!</p>
<p>tryna talk to her alone. did u do well in all the quizzes?</p>
<p>well we don’t have quizzes…just exams. I have had 2 exams so far…I kinda screwed up on the first one. I think I have a good shot at getting an A, but that will be towards the end of the semester of course.</p>
<p>How would I approach her regarding this? any suggestions?</p>
<p>“there’s a choice for it on the application supplement right?” Really? I can’t find it…</p>
<p>What is the range of credits for sophomore? Because I am international, so i don’t really know my standing.</p>
<p>@madirocks:
[CALS</a> Admissions: Request Information](<a href=“http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/prospective/admissions/request-information.cfm]CALS”>http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/prospective/admissions/request-information.cfm)
this is the place where you can email them. Emailing them to their actual mail will take longer than the request information. Uhm, I don’t know, but it took around 2-3 days.</p>
<p>How do I prove to them that I will be taking the first of two required bio courses? I’m on quarter system so my new classes start April- well beyond the deadline.</p>
<p>Do the Bio requirements have to be sequence or does it really need a lab? I took a biology class with lab, but next sequence does not have lab. So I was wondering if I should take the next sequence or higher level class that is out of sequence but has a lab…?</p>
<p>Gender: M
State: NJ
current school: Middlesex Community College
School applying to:College of Arts and Sciences
College GPA & Year (fresh, soph, etc.): Soph 3.87 GPA (after 57 earned credits)
H.S. GPA: 3.6 GPA
High School Performance (AP’s and the like): 3 AP’s (2 Eng & 1 U.S History)
SAT (full breakdown): 580 reading, 560 math, 520 writing (terrible i know), SAT II 620 U.S history, 540 Literature </p>
<p>Activities (brief list): College Assembly, College Curriculum Task Force, Phi Theta Kappa, WVPH 90.3 FM Station manager, Pathfinders Organization (like boy scouts), High school: Bergen County youth Council for the Homeless: vice president and over 100 hrs logged volunteering</p>
<p>Comments: My SATS/HS stats are going to kill me, my activities compared to you guys just depress me, and my CC background puts me in a disadvantage. However, my transfer counselor says people have got into Upenn from my cc, so I have a legitimate shot as long as I make a strong case in the essay. Feel free to comment, or advise me. Good luck to all!</p>
<p>p.s - any successful transfer’s to UPenn please post stats! thnx</p>
<p>@ Aussiegbrl: Your CC background puts you at an advantage as far as Cornell goes. I honeslty dont see why they would admit anyone froma 4 year school unless they have an exceptionally compelling reason to attend cornell.</p>
<p>Not happening Aussiegbrl, you MIGHT have a shot at a college other then CAS. You need to apply to one that doesn’t require SAT scores, ILR, Hum ec, CALS for example.</p>
<p>chris0089, some 4 year schools suck just as much, if not more, than community colleges. my old one, for example. so that definitely played a part in me choosing to apply… though i will agree that CC kids have an advantage because they transfer out of necessity AND desire and not just desire</p>
<p>hi ironic .</p>
<p>My major is Political science so I can’t apply to CALS unless i change my major just to get into Cornell. So RileyJohn I really don’t have a chance? what exactly are they looking for in a transfer? & also @ironic & @chris0089, so I am at an advantage b/c I am coming from a CC so therefore my essay will/should represent a very strong desire to go to Cornell?</p>
<p>i just talked to an admissiosn officer at cornell and she told me with an exasperated sigh that they had received some 36,000 freshman applications and are too busy with that to process transfers right now. just hearing that number, my heart sank! does anyone at all have a chance to attend cornell!!? :/</p>