<p>It started out as a program related to agricultural business (or something like that) and remained in CALS ever since...</p>
<p>the program first taught farmers about agricultural business and economics, that's why it stayed in Ag</p>
<p>It still has concentrations in agri-business, thus the reason it is in CALS.</p>
<p>gomestar why would you say that classes after you get accepted don't matter? the acceptance letter says your acceptance is contigent on your grades for the rest of the year.</p>
<p>i'm saying how can they evaluate you as a GT when you havn't even taken the class yet. this is why they say no summer classes. </p>
<p>of course there's that who contingency thing, but i'm only talking about applying as a transfer with a GT agreement.</p>
<p>spanks:</p>
<p>My son was certainly aware of the Bio requirement. What was surprising was Cornell's insistence that it would take at least 9 credits at IU( and perhaps 12) to satisfy what would be 6 for a Cornell student(assuming Bio109/110). The catch is that Cornell insists on two semesters of lab and lecture. At IU, lab and lectures are separate courses. </p>
<p>I say 12 credits because after my son submitted his course descriptions for the Bio courses to the Transfer Coordinator, the response was that those 6 credits satisfied only 1/2 of the overall Bio requirement. My son never pursued whether it would take another 3 or 6 credits to complete the requirement. It was a moot point....9 or 12 didn't matter. Without a summer school option, he couldn't possibly fit it into his schedule(ie. 20 credits in the Fall and 18 credits in the Spring).</p>
<p>You get the same problems in the Comm department, which I am transferring into this fall. A crap load of science: at least 6 credits in Bio, at least 4 in Chem/Physics, and then at least 8 more in math/science. That's 18 credits of science under your belt for a business or communications or (in some respects) education. It bogas.</p>
<p>I'm a NYS resident that's getting the tuition cut, so I have an incentive to grin and bear it. If money weren't an issue, however....hello CAS!</p>
<p>It seems you could take 2 BIO classes over the summer between HS and start of FR year. That fact that they want a pre-Med version is actually a good thing, because these are readily offered over the summer w/ labs at many colleges. And perhaps at some other schools (other than IU) Cornell would not require so many credits (?); even Ivy schools offer courses over the summer to non-matriculated students.</p>
<p>Now if the number of BIO classes required was not explained until well into FR year and it was too late to schedule everything, then that seems unfair.</p>
<p>I get the impression that not many students offered GT by Cornell actually end up taking the transfer.</p>
<p>It could be worse; Harvard has a special admission program in which you MUST take a gap year before enrolling and you are prohibited from taking college classes anywhere during that year (!).</p>
<p>WS17</p>
<p>Cornell dropped the bomb on my son on July 7. Too late for summer school this year.</p>
<p>I don't quite understand your complaint. 6 credits of bio at cornell include two semesters of lecture and two semesters of lab. To fulfill that requirement, your son needs to take two semesters of lecture and two semesters of lab. IU can call it 9 credits, 12 credits, a million, or just one, but in the end he'll have to take the same amount of coursework whether or not the lab and lecture are incorporated into the same course.</p>
<p>shizz</p>
<p>12 credits of Bio, 16 for the other GT requirements, leaves just 2(assuming 30). IU Kelley requires another 8. 36 credits seems excessive, especially considering that anything less than a B(in any course) disqualifies him from both schools.</p>
<p>My only gripe is truth-in-advertising for the GT. See my second post.</p>
<p>36 credits isn't too bad... i took 34 at my previous school and i managed a 3.75.</p>
<p>But for CAS only 30 credits transferred.
What's with Cornell being so condescending towards credits earned at other colleges hehe.</p>
<p>suck it up, i took 32 credits my first semester at college before transfering. 26 my second semester. Still pulled a 3.8 and worked 24 hours a week on average.</p>
<p>
[quote]
suck it up, i took 32 credits my first semester at college before transfering. 26 my second semester. Still pulled a 3.8 and worked 24 hours a week on average.
[/quote]
holy ****
respect man</p>
<p>yeah, wasn't my most fun year on record but probably my most productive!</p>
<p>Whoa! thats 58 credits your first year...Cornell needs only some 120-130 to graduate. And even if you take into account that Cornell evaluates it to a lower number of their own credits (would 40 be a good approximation?) thats almost 1/3rd of your total Undergrasuate credits!!! And add to that AP credits too!</p>
<p>added with AP credits and classes i took over the summer, it came out to around 60-ish credits.</p>
<p>gomestar how in the world did you do that?????? thats like 9-11 classes. i dont know if i believe you...</p>
<p>There's a reason the ILR Director picked gomestar out as representative or something ILR college.</p>
<p>CMB - dual enrolled at my regular college and the local CC right down the road. </p>
<p>it was pretty much classes all day from 8-6 (on mondays and wednesdays of the spring semester it was classes until 10 at night) </p>
<p>It'd be tough for me to prove as the only thing i have to offer without releasing my transcripts is the fact that I'm a full 1 year ahead of my high school graduating class (year 2004). I'm currently trying to get my parents to pay for at least another semester at Cornell. It'd be great to have a longer college experience and there's alot of classes i'd love to take at Cornell.</p>