<p>I recently finished my first year at cornell and my gpa is less than stellar. I started off as a bio major (pre-med of course) in A&S and ended up with a 2.2 overall. I hated it. I've dropped my pre-med aspirations and the last thing I ever want to be is a bio major. But now I have a problem. </p>
<p>Is there any way that I would be considered for internal transfer (to humec nutrition) with a 2.2?? I'm worried that I've completely screwed myself.</p>
<p>not to fret little one…i too have a horrible gpa (although not a pre-med aspirer)…</p>
<p>the best thing you can do right now is to take a couple of easy classes (general electives) and the basic core nutrition classes to raise up that gpa…and then think about transferring after you bring your gpa back up above a 2.5 for junior year :)</p>
<p>you really do need to shape up…although a cornell degree is impressive i think a 2.0 is the minimum gpa to stay in good standing nowadays…</p>
<p>You’d have a better case if you got your grades up first/showed interest and success in your desired major. Fall semester,you should drop all the premed classes from your schedule, if you’re sure you want to switch, and enroll yourself in introductory courses for your desired major. If you get good grades in these classes, you will have a much better case for transferring. 2.2 is really close to the cutoff for academic probation, so I’m not sure if they’d accept you right away. If you do well in your Hum Ec classes first semester, and are still interested in your new major, then you should apply for an internal transfer for 2nd semester. I’m pretty sure you won’t have your actual grades by time the application is due, but you are required to get your professors to fill out a sheet indicating your midterm grades.</p>
<p>Don’t forget, the internal transfer division allows less than stellar GPAs provided you have an interest in the major. The direct transfer option is the one that requires the high GPAs.</p>
<p>I would also recommend you take a class on study skills when you are back on campus this fall. The Tatkon Center surely must have some.</p>
<p>I just think it’s much easier to show interest in a major by taking some of its required classes and doing well in them, then applying to transfer. You also don’t want to transfer into a new major only to find that you don’t like it.</p>
<p>^^I agree with Spanks. I took on a Nutrition minor and found the courses to also be of a pre-med nature. You still have to take biochem and an upper division course that is very heavy on nutrition and human biochemistry.</p>
<p>Since it’s required anyway…I hope you plan to take NS 115 (not sure what the new course # is) this fall. It’s the intro nutrition course. </p>
<p>I loved my nutrition courses and so I hope you are able to make it over that way eventually…good luck!</p>
<p>The course requirements in the first stages of the nutrition major are very similar to those of a pre-med curriculum. Nutrition is very science-y. It could just as easily be a specialty within the bio major as a major of its own. Given that pre-med didn’t work out for you and you no longer want to major in bio, are you REALLY sure you want to major in nutrition?</p>
<p>why dont you go Nutrition concentration in bio major? I also wonder if you REALLY want to go nutrition. I was a HBHS major last year as a freshman and took all NS courses to satisfy requirements but i decided to transfer to bio major in CALS. I found that nutrition courses are 100% memorizing and 0% understanding. I personally felt that it is harder to get a A in my nutrition 122 courses than intro bio or chem because those picky TAs love to deduct points. Imagine taking an intro bio courses and the only way to get an A is to get 3 or fewer questions wrong on every test. But then again NS 115 was pretty relaxing.</p>
<p>I found that NS 331 truly was the killer…and you can only take it your junior or senior year.</p>
<p>It was a combination of orgo, biochem and nutrition…interesting material but not an easy class by any means.</p>