<p>Currently, i am attending Syracuse University.
Current college GPA : 3.54
Credit / Unit : about 40 credits completed
Highschool GPA : 4.5 / 5.0
SAT1 : 1810
Clubs (college) : 2 clubs.
Clubs ( hs ) : Winter Track, Spring Track, Cross Country, Basketball, Math Team. (4 varsity letters)</p>
<p>Do I have a shot?</p>
<p>Depends on which major.</p>
<p>college of engineering</p>
<p>Since you're applying to the best school inside Cornell, ur stats might be a lil tough, admissionwise, relative to many others (that may come from higher-ranked colleges, say UW-madison?) who are also looking foward to transfer into engineering. According to Cornell Eng. admission office, usually only transfer appl. w/ GPA>=3.7, and SAT >=2100, are accepted nowadays. And because u're trying for sophomore standing (right?), SATs are still pretty important for the selection process.
But again, college admission is a crapshot. U never know till u give it a shot.</p>
<p>I would say you should try but don't get too much expectation. The information given by nanacy0223 is not quite correct because Cornell does not ask you to decide which standing you wish. Standing is their decision based on your completed courses those are match their curriculum. Transferring to Cornell is bit more strict than other schools since they expect you to complete some courses before you apply to Cornell. When I called them to ask whether the rigor of current school affect their decision, they didn't told me yes or no but I think they will definitely see current school since, for example, a certain gpa out of big 10 state university and the same gpa out of ordinary cc should be considered to be different. Syracuse is good but there are many competitive applicants who from better schools with higher gpa. Also, not only you should take SAT2 subject tests as many as you can but also the scores must be higher than 700 to be competitive. Finally, raise your gpa to the highest point that you can obtain.</p>
<p>Madlee,</p>
<p>I assumed orbitman is a rising sophomore who's applying for the 2nd standing to Cornell Eng., not that he has the option to choose which standing he wants to apply for. If you have done some careful research on the Cornell website, you'd probably come cross a set of rough stats. (somewhere) that the eng. school provided for those who have sucessfully transferred (externally) from the previous yrs. And the majority of the transfers had ~3.7 GPA. As for the SATs, most of the ppl I know at Cornell Eng. have at least 2100. But again, like I said before, transfer admission is really a crapshot, so what we're predicting now is highly probablistic.
So just to clarify the confusions from before, I'm not making anything up here. And because I know Cornell Eng. is TOUGH, I seriously recommend those of you who will be potentially accepted to build up a SOLID preparation before matriculation.</p>
<p>What are the certain course Cornell expects the students to take...if i were applying to CAS as an econ major... i cant seem to find it</p>
<p>thanks in advance</p>
<p>Why is the SAT still taken into consideration after high school is over? I thought the purpose of the SAT was to predict how well one will do in college. Now that one is in college and is doing well, wouldn't that render the SAT meaningless. I don't understand. </p>
<p>The only thing I can understand about colleges taking the SAT into consideration for transfers is to filter the people out. I find that stupid and taking away a lot of really good students. I can understand taking it into consideration after one semester, but after 1 or 2 years is sort of petty.</p>
<p>SAT scores are still a relevant datum, especially in light of only one year's college work. If someone clearly was not admissible originally, obtaining even a strong gpa at a weaker school is not going to overcome statistics that would have surely led to rejection. A 3.54 at Syracuse is not particularly strong. Coupled with SAT scores that are below those of anyone admitted to his or her class at Cornell Engineering, there is no chance. It is only fair to the OP to tell him or her the truth.</p>
<p>From what I've seen, average SAT scores are not detrimental for transfers to top universities, but low SAT scores are just a red flag that seems to make an admissions officer think twice about your capacity to do top-rated work. </p>
<p>What is your math subscore from that 1800? For engineering you would want it to be 700+ to avoid a big negative.</p>
<p>I don't really think you have a good shot. However my sister goes to Cornell (CAS) and she says that Cornell Eng is insanely difficult resulting in many people trying to transfer out. If you don't have the quant skills then you wouldn't want to put yourself through that hell anyways.</p>
<p>Totally agreeing w/ foxdie; ppl in that school, especially those in my major, are SO competitive. There's definitely a considerable portion of the student population who are highly obsessed over grades.
However, there's a grad TA in my major that comes from Columbia (my target school) who happens to be just the same, attitudewise, as those who attend this school (he once actually expressed greater interest in Cornell than his undergrad school), which actually made me think twice about Columbia.</p>
<p>i've received a 740 on math ..
what do u guys think about NYU's engineering??
will i have a shot for NYU??</p>
<p>NYU should be a good match for you, though I don't see the pt of going to NYU engineering since it's comparable to Syracuse.</p>
<p>I didn't know NYU had engineering. Do you mean Stevens?</p>
<p>NYU has an engineering program linked with Stevens Institute of Technology. To take anything besides like, intro to engineering, you have to travel to the stevens campus in jersey to take your classes. I don't know anyone that is doing it, but I don't know how I would personally feel about it, being you are taking classes with stevens kids, but living at nyu. Its kinda a weird situation.</p>
<p>I gotta question what's the school in Cornell that accepts the highest amount of transfers?</p>
<p>i see...
then could you guys recommend me some other good engineering programmed colleges that are located near NY, NJ, Penn?
I am also going raise my GPA up just a little more.. I will try..
So Please recommend me some.. reach/match/safe schools that i can actually apply to as a transfer applicant.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>obviously u need to spend some time researching which school(s) is a fit before actually filling out appl.. I don't mean to offend, but why would you even consider transferring in the 1st place if you don't even have a solid reason for going to one of the prestigious bunch that u've applied to? Looks like you only applied for the names.</p>
<p>no not really..
I just don't like the people/school itself..
So that's one of the main reasons why I want to trasnfer out..
but then I obviously want to trasnfer to some better school for engineering..</p>
<p>then you should be perfectly happy at either SUNY stonybrook or CUNY city college since both have fairly competent engineering divisions, as far as I know. The reason that almost all the schools u've applied to are only the ones w/ big names, but are actually relatively weak in engineering (excluding Cornell), directed me into drawing the conclusion that you're transferring mostly for the names.</p>