<p>I will try to make this thread brief since I tend to ramble in these things.</p>
<p>Planning on transferring to Cornell ILR for Spring 2012. Stats below.</p>
<p>-3.5x GPA (will be a 3.6x after the summer, realistically)
-Selective Summer internship (in politics)
-Writer for campus publication
-Executive board member of a political club
-Will be doing another internship immediately after the one above ends, also in politics, unsure of its selectivity. I will be working closely with a local politician for what its worth.
-Involved in a few other things that aren't as strong, but they all point to the ILR curriculum.
-Member of University's Honors program.
-Hispanic, in case it would give me a boost. I'm more familiar with this in law school admission than I am with undergrad.</p>
<p>Also worth noting that I wouldn't have been able to get in from high school. Not even a transfer option. I won't be submitting scores either, so you can guess what that transcript looks like (not all bad, but still).</p>
<p>So what can I do to maximize my chances? Would it be worth the effort to apply? Do I have a reasonable chance? I can't think of any other program I'd want to be a part of, but if there is no real chance of it happening I might as well focus my efforts elsewhere (mainly rushing through college, working, law school, etc.).</p>
<p>I might also visit and have my interview in person if possible. My reasons for transferring, if nothing else in my application, speak to ILR and ILR only. My essays/interview will articulate those reasons, which is the only absolutely solid part of my package I see right now.</p>
<p>And I've rambled. Opinions?</p>
<p>EDIT: I do not go to NYU. My school is a relatively unknown, regional public.</p>
<p>Just bumping back to the first page.</p>
<p>And again, to the first page. 100+ views and no thoughts, not even negative ones?</p>
<p>Cornell is highly competitive. I doubt a 3.5 or even a 3.6 is good enough. I believe the average gpa for transfers is a 3.8. Correct me if I’m wrong. Maybe for your major its lower. Your extra curriculars are decent, but nothing amazing. Boost your GPA, start a club, get great rec letters and essays and just maybe, you may have a tiny shot.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. I am not sure what the average GPA for ILR transfers is, according to the literature they provided it is a 3.33 but that must be for GTs. According to another thread on CC for accepted ILR transfers GPAs ranged from 3.4-3.8 ish if I remember right, so it looks like fit is more important than GPA. I could be wrong about though.</p>
<p>Also, I think I’m spread pretty thin already. I’ll be VP of a club, an intern, a writer, and member of a couple of other clubs in the fall. Is starting a club an unwritten rule for transferring to ILR? I go to a large public university (about twice as many students as Cornell), so it would be hard to start something that isn’t there already.</p>
<p>I plan on getting three recs and writing the best essays possible. Guess I’ll see what happens, thanks again for the reply!</p>
<p>CALS is a fit school. If you can write a really good essay on why you belong there, I think you have a good chance. I know because I don’t have a 4.0 and it was the essay/extracurriculars that got me in.</p>
<p>Majoring in what? Also I won’t have the bio pre-reqs done in time, since I didn’t really consider CALS an option. I’m not going after Cornell because its an ivy/prestige, law schools could care less. I want to go to ILR.</p>
<p>Animal Science. I didn’t have o-chem done, so they just accepted me as a sophomore. If you want ILR so badly, then just apply. It doesn’t hurt to try.</p>
<p>Sorry to bring this thread back, but I wanted to ask something else without making another one. What other schools should I be looking at, realistically? I like UVA for its PPL program (I’m OOS), and I’m also considering Emory (though not as much). Any other schools with decent financial aid for transfers (so not NYU) that I would have a decent shot at?</p>