<p>Hello,
I will be attending my local community college next fall. I chose the CC over a four year school to save money. My high school GPA ended up being 94ish and my SAT score was 1690.
My question to you all is whether it is possible for me to become a transfer student to Cornell for Computer Science after receiving my AA at my community college. If so, what might increase my chances of acceptance? I plan to really focus on college from this point forward in my life and even quit my job to do so this fall. Any advice or insight is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>You have ‘Cornell’ in the body of the post and ‘MIT’ in the title. :P</p>
<p>oops. thats cuz i did the same post in the Cornell and CMU forums and just used copy and paste. 
how does one edit a post again?</p>
<p>You’d need to study a lot on your own, to make sure you’re prepared for the MIT curriculum. Maybe you could supplement your classes with MIT’s open courseware. Make sure you check out the requirements here: [MIT</a> Transfer Admissions](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/admissions/transfer/apply.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/admissions/transfer/apply.html)</p>
<p>Also, I would consider studying this summer and retaking the SAT, since that’s one part of your application that you have a lot of control over.</p>
<p>^^There’s usually a link below your post saying edit, but it disappears after a while, I think 20 mins or so.</p>
<p>lidusha: I’ve seen the MIT opencourse ware. Great stuff, it will definitely help. How long is too long to retake my SAT?</p>
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It’s absolutely possible, but you should be aware that MIT’s transfer acceptance rate has been in the low single digits for many years – it’s very difficult to transfer in.</p>
<p>You need to get your SAT score way, way, way up–to the 2200-2300 range; it may be implausible to expect to improve this much. If you look at the “decision” threads for MIT, Cornell, and CMU (they would have been posted in late March/early April 2010) you can see the stats on people who were accepted (and rejected). It’s generally even harder to get into MIT and Cornell as a transfer than it is as a freshman; I don’t know the stats for CMU but I bet they’re similar. It’s also hard once you get there (I was a transfer myself to Cornell back in the day) because the work will be dramatically more demanding than what you’ve been used to, and there isn’t the support system for transfer students that there is for incoming freshman. It can be really, really rough, and hard to know where to go for help when you need it.</p>
<p>You don’t need to go to MIT, Cornell, or CMU to get an excellent computer science undergraduate degree. Your best bet would be a school that had an articulation agreement with your community college–I know in our state, the public flagship has such a system. If you complete an AA with a 3.5 GPA, acceptance is automatic, and since the flagship is expecting such students, it has an advising system in place to make the transition as smooth as possible.</p>