<p>Hello to all you GREAT people! I was wondering if someone could chance me for transferring to Cornell or any Top School. </p>
<p>I will be attending Florida International University for environmental engineering, Fall 2014, and looking forward to keeping nothing but a 4.0 GPA to build some credibility when I transfer. I am looking forward to applying for Fall 2015 transfer for many schools but mostly Cornell University due to their engineering school. I finally was able to get my SAT score up to 2210 this June and was hoping to find out if my unweighted 3.27 High School GPA will completely make me noncompetitive towards other applicants when I apply for transfer. I started taking challenging courses in 11th grade and that is when I gained my intellectual curiosity and my motivation to get better grades but unfortunately by 11th grade and until 12th grade I was only able to get my GPA up so much. I have been working retail since last summer and now I have landed an internship with a professor at my university to build wind turbines around campus and I will be modeling them on AutoCad. I have just recently been contacted back from a architectural design company that builds energy saving shutters for a part time job in the fall where I will also be using the program AutoCad to help build them. I will be taking 18 Credits in the fall, consisting of challenging courses and required credits for transfer. After Fall I will be applying for more internships and will hopefully take just as many credits and challenging courses in the spring. I believe my interests are finally starting to reflect on what I'm doing and hope I become competitive enough to get accepted to Cornell University. Please give me any advice on stuff I should do or may need to know.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
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<p>First of all, know what you’re getting into. Keeping a 4.0 GPA as an engineer will be a tough journey. There will be a lot of classes that will be hard, even in your first year. In my experience, the classes that destroyed the general population’s GPA in the first year, was Calculus II (integrals, sequences and series) Calc based physics (every class). In the second year, Laplace transforms and fourier series, linear algebra were the killers. Since you want to do environmental engineering, you’ll probably have to take ochem too. That one is time sapper. Nothing but studying mechanisms and products, all while explaining, physically and chemically why a reaction does what it does. This isn’t to say, you can’t do it, but if you can make it, congrats =D! You are a statistical improbability, and you deserve to celebrate. </p>
<p>Aside, from the high gpa, and internships, you are pretty good. The only thing that could make you more competitive is if you had time to be a president of a club or work. </p>
<p>@ninjex Thank you for the feedback! Yes, I know It is easier said than done but I can handle it :)), I’d rather aim high and miss than aim low and hit. Definitely will make time to become president of a club that I find interesting at my school, thanks for that. Should I be looking to gain volunteer hours as well?</p>
<p>I would make that a lower priority. In order, your priorities should be. 1 Maintain a high gpa, internships, work/club, volunteer hours. </p>
<p>Basically universities want to know you aren’t just twiddling your thumbs during your off time, but with ivys and other top schools want more glamorous ecs. Internships are very glamorous. Assuming you can fit studying, internships, club and volunteer hours, go for it. Although, don’t be surprised or concerned if you find you have to cut back. It’s typical. Engineering is hard. </p>
Hi All! I’m looking into an ILR transfer and was wondering if any one had any advice. I’m a freshman at a state school with decent grades in high school and first semester. Involved in multiple musical groups and charity work. Cornell ILR is my dream.Suggestions?