I just came across the fact that most of the students who are accepted at Cornell as a transfer were primarily from New York. Is it really hard for an out of state community college to transfer into Cornell ?
It’s really hard for anyone to transfer to Cornell. It’s Cornell. With that said, I can’t find anything to suggest that New York students have a better chance. I think it’s likely due to the fact that most CC students start with the idea of transferring to an instate school, usually a public. I can’t envision many CC students going the route of OOS elite school, or they would have in the first place. It’s possible that it’s because they didn’t get in, but then they typically go to the CC that has the tightest matriculation agreement with the 4 year institution they want to attend. For Cornell, those would likely be in NY state. It’s conjecture on my part.
A couple of my friends have also been admitted as guaranteed transfers after 1 year. Not sure if that has anything to do with that. I live in NY.
Cornell is an Ivy but they also received funding from the State of NY for certain programs. So I found this link and that may explain how NYS students get in.
http://admissions.cals.cornell.edu/apply/transfer/transfer-agreements
Note - the link is relevant to The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) … aka “the Ag school”. We are originally from NY, where the Ag school was known to be a good way to get a Cornell degree for in-state tuition… But it has limited majors.
When I was at Cornell many years ago, Agricultural Engineering was a very popular major because they had at least some semesters of public in-state tuition compared to other Engineering majors that were entirely on the private side.