<p>How easy is it to change colleges after enrollment? If I start off in CALS and want to change to CAS, how difficult is that? Is there acceptance criteria to change schools?</p>
<p>I've been told I wouldn't qualify for CAS, so get admitted any way I can, then switch to CAS after I'm on campus.</p>
<p>I am not sure I could sleep at night knowing I lied my way into CALS and took someone’s elses opportunity. Just saying…</p>
<p>It happens all of the time. You will need to look on the CAS web-site to see what the criteria is to transfer into CAS. Usually you have to be enrolled a semester, at least and then fill out the proper paperwork.</p>
<p>Don’t lose sleep over it. You are hardly the first one to think of this.</p>
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<p>And Cornell is certainly aware of this. The back door to CAS has some security bolts.</p>
<p>That’s true, the door in does, but once a student has gotten into Cornell, they can in fact transfer to another school within Cornell after a semester or two. They will find that many courses are crosslisted so the CAS course and the CALS course may be one in the same. If Cornell was not okay with internal transfers, they would not allow it, but they do.</p>
<p>The stumbling block may be the student convincing the admissions department that they are a fit for CALS in the first place because that weighs heavy in the application process.</p>
<p>Internal transfers are doable IF you have at least a 3.0.</p>