<p>Chances for transferring into arts and sciences?</p>
<p>Sophomore at Penn State University Park studying political science and history with a cumulative GPA of 3.92 (I received a 4.0 this past semester).</p>
<p>SAT: 2030</p>
<p>High school GPA: 3.6 weighted, 3.4 unweighted</p>
<p>I forgot to add that I have 65 college credits completed. 50 were completed at Penn State and 15 came from 5s on AP tests.</p>
<p>I’m hoping to transfer too (as a sophomore) so I’m no expert, but I think you have an ok chance. I know arts and sciences is harder than CALS or ILR which are a little more transfer friendly, so that doesn’t help. Also, your GPA is excellent but is only one piece of your app. As a junior transfer I assume that they’ll expect strong LORs as you’ve had more time to connect with your profs and strong extracurriculars.</p>
<p>Just write the best essays you can and try to put together the best overall app and hope for the best. Good luck</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>Not very high because your stats are not that good, you don’t have guaranteed transfer, and CAS is not very lenient towards transfers.</p>
<p>^ You are talking about this like it is UPenn. I think OP has a good chance. Great GPA, good (for PSU) SAT score too.</p>
<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf#zoom=100[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf#zoom=100</a>
A&S is already very selective.
For external transfers,
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<p>compare that to 30-50% of some other schools.</p>
<p>You have a fair chance because of your high college gpa but with that being said, that fair chance is not a very good chance.</p>
<p>^ Sorry, I completely underestimated Cornell.</p>
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<p>And this is exactly why Cornell needs to change its bs admissions policies…perception is everything, and people seem to think Cornell’s a joke now…and with 30-50% admit rates, half of Cornell kind of is.</p>
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<p>it’s absurd how selectivity among different schools at cornell differ so substantially… this isn’t right.</p>
<p>A pretty misleading chart since GTs (mainly going to ILR, HumEco and CALS) are included. Big surprise those also have the highest transfer rates.</p>
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<p>I’d bet anything that even without GTs, the state school rates would be well over 20%, which is still absurd. It still boggles me why Cornell even does GTs…if it is indeed so good and smart like Cornell and some people say it is, other ivies and top schools would be doing it too.</p>
<p>^You both have some points. Cornell doesn’t want to do GTs. However, NY state mandates it, which is why only the contract colleges have it. It really doesn’t help Cornell at all. It keeps out qualified transfer applicants and lets in unqualified ones. I much rather have ppl like UVbaby who deserve the chance than hordes of kids from community college.</p>
<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000472.pdf#zoom=100[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000472.pdf#zoom=100</a></p>
<p>It is also a big reason why Cornell’s contract college gets snubbed on - I mean come on, ILR is about 40% transfer (pg 12). That is pretty ridiculous.</p>
<p>What exactly is the criteria for admission for transfer applicants?</p>
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<p>Dude. If you got into Cornell as a freshmen, I have no doubt you will get in as a transfer if you try hard enough.</p>
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<p>Wow, just wow… Btw, where did you get your information? So, the NY State actually requires Cornell to have GT program? That is really f-ed up, or Cornell is much more of a state school than I had thought.</p>
<p>I thought Cornell’s contract colleges are technically ‘private’, not entirely public. This is really sad. Maybe Cornell’s admissions officers are aware that their admissions policies towards transfers are screwed up, but they are forced to accept those tons of sub-par community college transfers against their will?</p>
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<p>OMG HAHAHA. I always joked that half of ILR were transfers but it’s actually true LOL. Thanks for that link; I’ll use it well. </p>
<p>Lazykid, the way I see it is that the state schools get tons of funding for research and other things from NYS every year, and so they’re “obligated” to thank the state by accepting subpar candidates from the state universities/community colleges in NYS that they have agreements with. That would explain why half the students seem to be from Long Island - diversity my a**. It’s sad how the more qualified transfers are getting the shaft cause of this. What’s sadder is that MIT is also a land grant institution and yet its admissions policies are so much different [better].</p>
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<p>Yeah, this really sucks and is really disappointing. I was hopeful that if the leadership in Cornell admissions changes, we might see dramatic reforms in admissions regarding transfers in future. However, if Cornell contract schools are actually required by NY State to accept tons of these community college transfers who don’t even submit SAT scores, then, man, Cornell is destined to be the ‘$hit Ivy’ in the eyes of general public for decades to come.</p>
<p>Also, I knew several kids who were GT transfers who didn’t come from NY State. Three kids I knew from my high school (not NY State) got GT option. </p>
<p>Again, this is really unfortunate… I don’t know if Cornell will ever revise its screwed up admissions policies anytime soon. </p>
<p>It’s quite funny… how some people can look so down at Cornell because of all this crap. Last week, I went to a mall with my Cornell hat on. Some lady that works at the mall came up to me and said “Did you go to Cornell? That’s a good school! My son was accepted there, but chose to attend Hofstra University instead, which is also a very good school. My son told me Cornell is one of those schools that is easy to get in, but hard to get out. That’s why he didn’t go.” </p>
<p>After this conversation, I just laughed and left that mall instantly. I was thinking how Cornell’s reputation became an absolute joke to the general public, to be compared to the ranks of Hofstra University et al. (I didn’t even know such thing as ‘Hofstra University’ existed before)</p>
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<p>I think that the true problem is not how they accept a lot of transfers, but rather the fact that most of their transfers didn’t even have to submit SAT scores to be admitted… This is just sad. </p>
<p>Why impose two different standards? If ILR or CALS or whatever doesn’t require SAT from transfers at community colleges, they should play it fair and not require SAT scores from Freshmen applicants, either. This is unfair and ridiculous.</p>
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<p>HAHAHAHAHA Hofstra? LOL sounds like a sandwich. If I had to guess, the Cornell acceptance was bs fabricated to keep his mom content. Cornell’s prestige is at an all time low, but it’s still not as bad as we’re making it out to be - and definitely nowhere near the ranks of a Hofstra.</p>