I think you can contact them over email? I’ve been in contact with some of my schools over email and they’ve been getting back to me in a timely matter 
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Did anyone get a TO to Dyson?
I was offered Freshman Year Spring Admission…let me know if anyone else received this and is going!
email me- brookienoel@aol.com if your a FYSA
Can you exercise the transfer option for the Spring?
I was also offered TO to CALS, currently thinking I will take it but since it’s not binding, back out if I don’t want to go anymore
I got a TO from Dyson
I got the TO email from CALS this morning + submitted the form they attached
Here’s what I know from our S’s experience with receiving a TO a couple years ago. Cornell used to call it a guaranteed TO, but now just a TO. They put our S in contact with a person in charge of the TO’s for his school - ILR. He received info regarding classes he should take and the GPA he needed to keep (it was 3.3 at that time I believe). If he had questions, he could contact the person they identified.
Our impression, at least with ILR, was that if he did all the things that were listed, he would be accepted the following year. Apparently, Cornell does this a lot, due to limited 1st yr housing, a desire to increase the class but not report stats, or to see if the student can cut it there. In our S’s case, he had 99% scores, great ECs, and sliding grades all of senior year.
The school has lots of transfers under this option, and even houses them together, and they generally do very well.
No, you can’t get in for the spring or off the waitlist.
Our S fell in love with the school he went to and didn’t want to transfer (this happens a lot) but also couldn’t have bc his grades were too low - he continued senior yr slide and they were right not to have accepted him in the 1st place!
If you’re really serious about using your TO, the smartest thing to do would be to go locally, where it’s cheap and you won’t get sucked into the social life.
There’s info on Cornell’s website re, requirements for your TO. If you’re not sure, there’s no harm in accepting it. You aren’t bound to anything.
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@havenoidea Thanks for all the info.
My D was put on waitlist for ILR. Does anyone know if they offer everyone the TO if they don’t get picked off waitlist eventually?
I don’t think everyone who doesn’t get off the waitlist is given the TO, but Kumquat1 said this earlier: “its really rare to get it from waitlist, but it happens!” - so there is a possibility of getting it from the WL!
I got the TO from Human Ecology…sounds like waitlist is better?
@Luckyjade2024 I think TO is better because we basically have 3 years guaranteed? (assuming we meet requirements) Cornell has spots for us while they don’t for waitlisted people? Someone correct me if I am wrong
It looks like they changed the GTO to TO, no longer guaranteed. Just special consideration. So you can get turned down again next year, depending on the applicant pool.
on the waitlist, you can still get called to enroll 2020
@Luckyjade2024 I’m reading that as long as you meet their requirements you’re basically in. i don’t think its based on the applicant pool at all, just yourself
anyone know how much weight cornell puts on second semester senior grades? my grades are not looking so hot right now
I think they consider senior grades, but consider first-year college grades more (I think grade 12 scores still have a pretty decent weight though) You can do it!!
@Luckyjade2024 If you meet all the requirements of the TO you will be accepted. That is what ILR told us. They stopped calling it a GTO because there are requirements you must meet, and so you’re not “guaranteed” the transfer. People were confused I suppose.