<p>My daughter has just recently been accepted to CALS in the Biomedical engineering major. We are all excited about her acceptance, but she is a little anxious. Unfortunately, during her senior year she has slowly been turned off of engineering. She's currently taking AP bio and Ap Calculus, where she is getting a B and A respectively with a lot of hard work. She took honors physics last year as the Ap was too hard, and just barely got an A. She no longer has confidence in these higher level science and math courses.<br>
She now wants to change to AEM which is still in CALS, but she cannot do that until she is a registered Cornell student. We don't know how difficult that will be. So to any Cornell students, does anyone know if a change in major within CALS to AEM is difficult? Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't think you can change to AEM before you actually start classes in the fall, but you can definately transfer into AEM. Someone else can probably answer you in a little bit more detail.</p>
<p>from <a href="http://business.aem.cornell.edu/admissions/transfers.htm%5B/url%5D">http://business.aem.cornell.edu/admissions/transfers.htm</a>
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Intra-College transfers are admitted directly by the Undergraduate Business Program. After meeting the transfer requirements, please complete the application-to-transfer form and return it to the undergraduate program assistant in 104 Warren Hall.</p>
<p>Intra-college transfer applications are due no later than the last day of classes for admission starting the following semester. You will be notified of the decision by e-mail once your application has been reviewed.
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<p>As long as she has a 2.7+ GPA, gets a B in two business courses, completes or gets AP credit for Econ 101 and 102 (intro macro and micro), and completes a course in or gets AP credit for some calculus, she can be in AEM 2nd semester.</p>
<p>sparticus800 - Thanks for the clarification. I assume that you are a Cornell student. How difficult is it to get a 2.75 gpa and meet the AEM requirements? We've all heard the rumors about Cornell's grade deflation combined with intense academically focused students and we respect that. But, what do you think is the chance of getting B's in business classes for a hard working student with a verbal SAT of 650, math 710? Thanks.</p>
<p>AEM is seen as the "easy major" on campus. A 2.75 wont be tremendously difficult given your daughter puts in the proper time and effort.</p>
<p>It is my understanding, that AEM has been really cutting down on internal transfers over the past year - not sure how that will affect your daugther. Question - if she is barely getting A's in some of her AP classes, how is she going to survive at Cornell - let me rephrase this - what were her stats in the first place - most people at Cornell were straight A students in high school.</p>
<p>your daughter is going to have a very tough time at Cornell it seems like - how the heck did she get into engineering with a 1360..most of those kids have at least 1450s?</p>
<p>I transferred to AEM my junior year and had a 4.0 gpa..you are not transferring into AEM internally unless you have at least a 3.75...many students at Cornell want to transfer in...so therefore they are only taking top performers...you don't have to believe me...but I am telling you this from first hand experience</p>
<p>i'm a cornell student. a 2.75 is no sweat as long as you're not in a really competitive program like engineering. however, i'm not in AEM or an AEM transfer, and sports makes it sound like it's gotten more difficult to get into AEM now.</p>
<p>Sports684-<br>
Yes, it is true that my daughter's SAT didn't stop her from a acceptance into CALS- Bioengineering. But, she has a 4.32 gpa, is in the top 5% at a competitive high school with 700 students and took 6 AP classes in 2 years. Her biggest strength is that she is both intelligent and well liked by students (Secretary of NHS) and teachers (amazing recs). She did research projects in high school, competed at the state level, and had an internship at a hospital this past summer, analyzing endothelial cells for prevention of preclampsia. She also participated in the Cornell Curie Academy summer program for female engineers, so she may have been remembered from that . She had an amazing essay that revealed a lot about her drive and maturity, it was not the generic I'm so great essay
So, I believe that she is a qualified admit, even though her SAT was not in the 1400+ range. I think Cornell admitted her as a total package. I know that my son who scored a 1510 on the old SAT, would not have been as strong of a high school senior applicant- despite his stellar SAT.
I'm not even sure that she wants to go to Cornell. She certainly doesn't need to attend a college where she has to justify her acceptance.</p>
<p>nobody outside of admissions cares about high school stats here at cornell. I've only discussed my SAT score and HS GPA with my close friends here, and only some of them at that. In HS people say things like "DAAAAMN you got into Cor*nell???* What was your SAT score, man?" Here people say "You got an A- in Bio 101? Awesome; you must have worked your ass off!" I don't think you'll have to worry about her justifying her acceptance snajean, nor do i think it would be wise to interpret the words of a single cornellian (sports or myself) as the opinion of the entire student body.</p>
<p>Also, while 1360 may be on the lower end of engineering SAT scores, it's perfectly acceptable as an average score got the university as a whole.</p>
<p>Thank you sparticus800 - and you are right. Once you arrive at campus, high school records lose their importance. I appreciate your support.</p>
<p>im just confused..your daugther is entering into bioengineering, but she barely got an A in honors physics and couldn't take AP Physics because it was too difficult - that seems strange to me that one of the top engineering schools in the country would accept someone like that. I just want to make you aware (I have no other motive) that your daughter will be up against some of the most brilliant engineering minds in the country and you can't bank on being able to transfer into AEM because it has become a lot more competitive with the desire to maintain an organic growth in the program. I know this may come off sounding harsh but she just needs to know that engineering at Cornell is no cake walk. I just don't understand why she applied to Cornell engineering if she can barely get top grades in her science courses.</p>
<p>sports684
We are aware of the highly qualified students at Cornell. You ask why someone who struggled to get an A in honors physics would pursue engineering. Because until this year, my daughter loved and excelled in Biology, Calculus and Chemistry enough to think that she could succeed in Biological or Biomedical engineering. Her AP physics teacher was new to the program and had she been taught by the previous year's teacher, who is now the deprtment head, she would have stayed in AP Physics.
I appreciate your warnings of what she would be up against in cornell's engineering department.</p>
<p>As soon as she gets assigned her advisor, tell her to e-mail him/her about her change of heart. Your daughter might be advised to start her business classes in the first semester, and not take any bioengineering classes, in order to prepare for the change of departments within CALS.</p>
<p>yeah, if she wants AEM she should take AEM classes and required transfer classes like the econs from the get-go. There are no restrictions by college on courses one can take, which is really nice in terms of pushing for transfer acceptance.</p>