@SonnyX I’d say you have a decent shot. You never know with Cornell though.
@SonnyX Your stats are looking great and i think that once you believed in yourself and pursuits enough to express that through your essays, you’ll be fine.
So I have Fed Tax Schedule 1 and 3 and a Transfer Transcript in financial aid portal all listed as initiated. Will they not be able to do my application if I don’t turn those in on time? Kinda odd they never emailed me about them.
Hey guys, I applied to CALS as an Info Science major. After this semester, I will have completed every pre-req for junior transfer, except an Intro to Python course.
I was a CS major at my current school, and I completed Intro to Programming (in C) as well as Programming II, Web Development, and a research course where I mainly worked in Python. I also have paid internship/work experience in Python.
I have searched everywhere for a Python class I could take this summer but my school nor the CC at home offer Python classes. I am going to reach out to admissions but I was wondering if anyone else has been in a situation like this?
are u international student (sophomore)? @FarmerBoi
@FarmerBoi message me
@Cornellian2025 No, I go to a 4 yr private school in the USA and I’m a US citizen
Could you message me? Since I have just made an account I cannot send a PM.
@FarmerBoi
Hey. I use coursera to do python/r(what i use in school as well). If you want to do it for free, you can press on “audit” on bottom left corner when the popup comes up. There are so many courses regarding data science and web development!
@FarmerBoi I also applied info science in CALS, and i am from Wuhan city.
Glad to see you, can i ask what year ur in? (currently study in US state flag university)
how do you check your financial aid status?
@FarmerBoi FYI JetBrains is also offering a Python class. It doesn’t count for credit but their curriculum looks pretty good. Plus it also gets you up to speed on their PyCharm IDE, which is pretty cool by itself.
Is anyone else having an issue with their college transcript? Mine was delivered a while ago but it still says “awaiting” on my checklist and I have not gotten a response back from the admissions office yet
@evansren when you log in into the application checklist there is a long message above it. Somewhere in the message says “Some items submitted through the Common Application were not previously received and these items are being sent to Cornell” if you applied through the common app maybe that is why.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I actually feel pretty confident with Python, as it was the primary language I used at my internship.
I am just worried about being rejected due to missing the Intro to Python course that’s in the transfer requirements. Even though I’ve taken more CS courses, I know Cornell likes to see a direct equivalent to the required class.
Also realized it might be helpful to post my stats here in order to help future applicants
Major: Applied as Info Science but want to double major in Biological Sciences, I am a non transfer option
School attended before transferring: University of Miami
College GPA (out of 4.0): 3.61 cummulative
Any grades below a B?: One C in calc 2
High school GPA/Rank: 3.8 weighted, don’t remember my unweighted but I think it was around 3.2/3.3, I was in the top 25% of my class
SAT/ACT: 32, submitted
Additional Tests: I took 5 AP tests, only submitting 4. A 4 in Lit and Lang, 5 in APUSH, 3 in stats (lol)
Extracurriculars/Awards (HS and College):
High school: 2 different part time jobs, Leadership team, president of Gay-straight alliance, Independent Bio research, school and regional science fair winner for research abstract, Scholastic gold key for LGBT piece, lots of volunteering with NHS and Science club, AP Scholar with Honor
College, some at old school some at new school: Violin lessons and performance for a short time, Full time retail job during gap sem, part time IT job, Student council diversity committee, Machine learning research with IBM technology, multiple hackathons including one at Harvard, went to an international philanthropy conference, Machine learning research internship at a national lab where I presented a poster and paper, Competitive mock trial and MUN Teams, Won awards in mock trial and have leadership in MUN, Volunteer research in a neuroscience lab studying genetics
Essays, if any (rate them 1-10, details): I would say maybe a 7 or 8, I talked a lot about growing up on a farm in a rural region of America, and how this experience and some hardships I faced in my life motivated me to be a scientist. Talked in detail about why I wanted to do info science as my school doesn’t have the major, and how Cornell offers some unique concentrations that would allow me to hone in on Machine Learning while allowing me to double major.
Hooks (URM, first gen, etc.): being from very rural/disadvantaged area I guess? I am a white female though so I consider myself pretty unhooked. I have some extenuating life circumstances that lowered my GPA, and a disability but didn’t mention this due to the additional info section being removed.
I have transferred before, was rejected from Cornell CAS before, and am not from NY so I do not have a lot of hope, but fingers crossed.
On the applicant portal it says “You will hear from our office in mid-April on a rolling basis about your admission decision.” Does anyone know if this is still happening or if it has changed cuz of covid?
Decisions start releasing Tuesday! But it’s on a rolling basis, so TOs hear first
I’ll post my stats alongside my decision for future transfers