Does the College of Arts and Sciences do this too?
@CAMidwestMom I already have a lot of friends that are going to my freshman year college, and have already chosen to room with someone. I just told them all I was rejected so it does not hurt my social life. But, it will be a problem once Spring rush rolls around and I can’t pledge a frat because ill be leaving.
Can you transfer a Greek affiliation?
Never been so anxious to get an email
I’m curious: how many people who received a transfer option are legacies? I have heard that these options are disproportionately given to children of alums so as not to anger the alum with an outright rejection. Is this true?
@Delamom I’m a legacy- my mom graduated from Cornell and I got the TO from humec after being deferred. My friend who is also a legacy got the same offer from CALS after being deferred
Technically not a legacy. SIL did send a rec letter and she is an alum.
I am not a legacy. My dad went to a random no name college in India and my mother did not even graduate from High School. Currently live in America though.
I applied ED
and to put the thing where those who receive this have lower overall stats as well, I have a 2330 SAT, 35 ACT, top 10% of an extremely competitive high school, National merit, a bunch of state and national level awards, and spearheaded several volunteer efforts after founding my own non-profit that raised over 25K as well as affiliating it with a local food bank and several other city cleaning events.
@CAMidwestMom I’m telling people who ask that I got a conditional acceptance. I think people seem to understand that better than telling them “guaranteed transfer.” If they ask me for details I explain the contingencies to the offer.
The general reaction I got from my peers is, “it doesn’t matter what it is. It’s basically an acceptance.” We had an unholy number of students apply from our school to Cornell and the other Ivies, and I was the only person who got ANY good news on Ivy Day so that might be why people have such a positive view on this offer.
I definitely recommend not parading this offer around at your first school though. Better yet, hide it, especially if it is far less prestigious than Cornell. For one, many students may become jealous and it might become hard to make friends and connections. Also, your professors may believe that you are using their institution as a stepping stone, which we kind of are, and that might make it far harder to bond with them and receive opportunities to work in labs and whatnot.
Not a legacy at all
My dad found this link the other day about transfers at ILR that might make some of you feel better (it did me). Basically it shows how many transfers they admit which is what we will all be. They accepted 162 students as freshman then accepted 93 as transfers. Which hypothetically if no one left by graduation we will represent 40% of the graduating class. My guess is that most of us (not all) have lower statistics (GPA,sat) then they want to publish so even though they think we’re a good fit and will succeed they want to appear more selective then their graduating class really is. I’m just telling myself they think I’m worthy of a Cornell diploma but not of freshman admission. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/apply
Mine said something to close friends early on but not to most people. Everyone was super supportive.
It’s stressful, but it is great to have the option. My child was convinced it wasn’t worth starting over but has now decided it was worth dealing with the transition and is taking the transfer option.
yes
I received a letter from arts and sciences regarding my transfer option that was very vague and didn’t specify a guaranteed transfer, just a 3.5 and b’s or higher. is this normal? and does the b’s or higher refer to second semester senior year grades too? if i got one C would that ruin my chances?
Ahh I will be going to University of Michigan too! Any other Wolverines out there? I signed up as still interested in TO. But, I’m not sure if I will take it. (What do you mean by “TO is offered to most students” @blprof )
@breaker8 Yes you got a guaranteed transfer. Just another name. Congrats. I would try to get that C up just to be safe.
giddysmiley - I was just stating that the letter said that the reason Cornell offers the TO is because it doesn’t have enough space to admit them all. The “most students” is language they use to explain why they give the TO. In other words, most of the students who receive the TO are given that option due to lack of space. For some students, it is due to Cornell wanting the student to “prove” themselves at another school.
Does anyone know the acceptance rate for TO students vs. the acceptance rate for regular transfers?