<p>suny new paltz and started a double major of biology and chemistry</p>
<p>thanks dewdrop - My high school grades for Junior and Senior year are pretty good. My SAT is about average for Cornell, a 2150..it's just my freshman/sophomore grades which aren't as good. Also my high school gpa inlcluded 3 grades from 8th grade, which were bad and counted since those classes were high school level. Do you think if I transfer as a soph, cornell will take into account my AP grades? I will probably have eight 5's and one 4. </p>
<p>btw, I second the question ashlieh asked...just curious.</p>
<p>If you transfer in with APs you will get credit for them as long as the scores are what Cornell accepts...which are 5s and 4s in some subjects. </p>
<p>Since Cornell when again see your HS transcript they can compare your HS performance with your college performance....so make sure to kick butt and do well!</p>
<p>for snail mail, it sure was fast :o i got rejected xD</p>
<p>Northeastern Honors, Maryland Honors, PSU Reg...got too lazy to do honors college thing</p>
<p>ahh **** my life</p>
<p>Did you know that some of the schools at Cornell have Guaranteed Transfer programs? Some schools at Cornell have articulation agreements with specific community colleges which guarantee transfer. A student must take the suggested courses, earn a specific GPA (~3.0 to a 3.5, depending on the major), and cannot get lower than a certain grade in any course (generally a B).</p>
<p>CALS (except for a few majors such as AEM) has a huge list of participating community colleges. The Engineering School has one for a BS in Enviromental Engineering. Human Ecology has several agreements, too.</p>
<p>If you're serious about Cornell, you should check out their website and think about it. You'll save a lot of money and still get the degree from Cornell. It's always nice to have options!</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>I thought that in order to have Guaranteed transfer, Cornell had to send you a letter specifying Guaranteed transfer?
Would cornell really let someone who gets b's at community college to have a guaranteed transfer if they didn't offer them a letter?</p>
<p>anyway I didn't get a letter guaranteeing me a transfer, but in any case I'm going to nyu next year, not community college.
thanks for the advice, lsb.</p>
<p>CALS has articulated agreements with some community colleges. You have to apply for it once at the community college and maintain a specified GPA. If you do that, once you graduate from the community college you are automatically able to transfer to Cornell. It's like a GT for community college students. </p>
<p>But...like molly said...this is totally different from the GT offered to HS applicants.</p>
<p>thanks I didn't know that ^
but I'm not going to any of those community colleges, and I'm trying to transfer out after one year.</p>
<p>For pre-med, I highly recommend going to a school where you can be a top student. GPA is GPA; most admissions committees don't have the time to figure out which college is super tough and which might have a little grade inflation. My daughter and her two best friends headed off to Cornell, Washington University and Northwestern a few years ago, all pre-med. They all changed their minds in the first year: absolutely grueling courses. Meanwhile other friends at St. Olaf and Goucher, both excellent schools, but not quite as demanding, got top grades and are now in med school.</p>
<p>Yeah but even if Cornell doesn't do research on what kind of college you go to, I should think a 3.6 at another ivy is worth more than a 4.0 at community college. It's helpful advice for pre-meds looking to transfer though.</p>
<p>Personally I would much rather do my freshman yr at a school I love, and then maybe I won't even want to transfer. Although one reason I'm glad I'm doing gsp at nyu is that the classes are super small, and the professors know you really well so I can probably get some good reccomendations if I end up transferring.</p>
<p>Med schools will take into account where you did your undergrad work...but that will only carry you so far in the admissions process.</p>
<p>If you are not a GT, I do recommend going to a school where you are happy so that if you are not accepted for transfer you will be at a place you wanted to be.</p>
<p>yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing. I visited nyu yesterday and now I like it even more...maybe this time next year I won't even want to transfer. Which is sort of good, because the transfer acceptance rate is so low. At least, even if I'm rejected, I will still be attending a school I love.</p>
<p>You have to be offered GT transfer when you're declined admission for Fall to answer that question. If you're still curious, let me know. I probably can type it up.</p>
<p>no but thanks so much for the offer :)
I definitely didn't get an offer of GT from cornell, but it's ok because I've found another college I love...and I can always do regular transfer after a year. Even if that doesn't work out, I'll still be where I'm happy.</p>
<p>That's the most important thing. Finding a place where you're going to be happy. With GT, I will have to leave all my new friends behind after a mere year. So, really, it's not all ...great in certain respects.</p>
<p>What about international transfer rates?
I know they're super low especially since school system in other countries are so different but does anyone have any info on that?</p>
<p>Yeah that's true. where are you going next year, before you transfer? just curious, of course you don't have to answer. </p>
<p>I know I'll make tons of friends at nyu, it's so big and diverse and there's different types of people, and if I end up transferring I'll miss them a lot. But I guess I can still visit them when I go home to long island. Wow haha I am getting so ahead of myself...</p>
<p>I'm going to Binghamton, do you think I will have a chance to transfer after one year to CALS if I get a 3.5 at Bing?</p>
<p>Depends on what major you'd be applying to. A 3.5 is the bare minimum for Biological Sciences....if you want that you really need to be shooting for a 3.7 or higher.</p>
<p>If you're applying to some other major, a 3.5 is fine....but most transfers I know had at least a 3.6 or higher.</p>