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<p>Are you sure that, proportionally, Cornell has more engineering/science students? I haven’t crunched the numbers or anything but with the # of specialized schools Cornell has, I’d expect the proportion of engineering/science majors to be lower.</p>
<p>I think the bigger issue is really the second issue that you mention. Specifically, I think Cornell needs to tighten its transfer requirements. Maybe it makes me sound elitist, but I don’t think Cornell should be taking so many community college transfers. gomestar I think confirmed that transfers tend to do substantially worse after transferring to Cornell. I’d happy for someone who got a 3.9 at a community college but I’m not so sure that they’d be an average student at Cornell. I actually think the increased number of transfers, not the proportion of science students, is why it takes some Cornellians so long to graduate. It’s not unusual for a transfer to have to take an extra year or two in order to fulfill all of Cornell’s graduation requirements.</p>