Where do you live and where do you want to work one day?
Has anyone who received the email today gotten the one for Chatter?
I got the transfer option too! For those who haven’t heard anything, you should check the spam mails. Your Cornell decisions might end up there.
There is a thread on here that was started by students who received the transfer option in March. A lot of your questions can be answered by reading through that thread.
I got guaranteed transfer for CALS AEM.
Got the TO offer for CALS earth systems. Will two Bs in second semester of senior year hurt me? What about a C?
@fruitfly2020 I think most majors have to get 3.0 gpa freshmen year and you can’t get a C. Has to be a B or A in every class. However I don’t think high school grades count???
Thats great @Dilan412 . Do you think you will do it? good luck!
No email or update yet. I’m on the ILR waitlist.
@Iyannastark I called ILR today and heard they were still talking to a few people. Sounds like WL will hear soon.
You can go to a CC. My S took the transfer option and has happily completed his transfer.
He went to a 4 year public school, but has a friend who went to a local CC and is super bright, doing really well at Cornell. They really don’t care where you go, so long as you take the right classes and get the A/Bs.
Is there anyone on the CALS waitlist that hasn’t heard anything yet? At this point I don’t even care about the result, I just want closure.
@nomnomsj I’m on ILR waitlist and haven’t heard anything. I just want closure too.
@blevine That’s wonderful! Would you mind telling me a little about what the process was like? Was it easy to get the transfer option? How was the transition once there? Do they help you to integrate yourself? I am planning on doing it, and would appreciate any advice from someone who has been through it before!!
Both of my kids knew many transfer students (some from their high school) at Cornell, and they all integrated well. By graduation time no one really remembered who were transfers. They offer GT transfers because they believe those students could be valuable members of Cornell if they had more space now.
My younger one got in through ED, but my older one fought hard to get off the WL. Initially she felt a bit less because she got admitted through WL, but she said she had the best 4 years of her life at Cornell. She graduated with high GPA and got her dream job upon graduation.
Try to make an unemotional decision about whether to take the GT transfer. If you are happy with your choice now then go with it, but don’t turn down the GT transfer just because you weren’t their “top choice.” Another way to look at is what is the harm in accepting the offer. It is a “free option” to you now. You can decide what to do with it later.
@sisirox It is not easy or hard the offer, you are accepted that way or not. Not much you can do to lobby for it. But it is just as good as an acceptance. The process was fairly simple for ILR, could vary for other colleges.
They send you a detailed guide, listing the types of classes you must take elsewhere. You must get B’s or better. Send in the info to prove it, and some trivial forms (not applying again, no more essays or recommendations). And the following fall you go to transfer orientation, meet new friends, etc.
Cornell is not the only school to do this, I know people who got similar offers from Harvard. But not many schools do it, and very get the offer.
It is an offer of admission, not waitlist. Contingency in grades is no different. You can’t flunk out sr year of HS if accepted as a freshman, and you must be serious about your freshman year in this case as well. But otherwise, you are accepted and just need to be patient.
Socially, it is as good as you are active and personable. They have transfer orientation activities so you meet other kids your own age/class. Joins clubs and you make friends if you are social.
Academically, they do have the option to take some freshman level intro 1 credit survey class, but do not require if you feel not needed, at least in ILR they did.
Best thing my son did, going this route. He loves the campus, met nice people. If you loved Cornell, better to have 3 years of what you love than 4 years of a compromise !
Anyone from SHA hear? I called today and yesterday and was on hold for 20
Minutes
@blevine Thank you so much!! That helps a lot!!! I really appreciate your answer!
Did anyone else get a letter today?
Is the transfer option (TO) the same thing as a guaranteed transfer