CALS is a lot less selective so it has a lot more available spots?
@Yankeefan20 no… it’s just that other schools at Cornell maybe more competitive.
Cals is extremely competitive because they recieve more apps
I’m also pretty sure it has a lot to do with where the college within Cornell is funded by NY state or not. For example, CAS is not while CALS is. I think that gives NY residents an advantage for CALS.
Dyson is considered a NYS school to and so is SHA
With the whole covid19 situation happening, if we took courses at our current university pass/fail, would those not count for credit at Cornell? I heard that they don’t accept pass/fail in general for transfers, but with the whole virus situation happening r they still not giving credit for those courses?
idk, my current school made it optional, but i wont be using it because im confident with my grades.
CALS is competitive, however, they do not receive the most transfer apps; that would be Arts and Sciences. Also, consider that the acceptance rate for CALS is perceivably higher or, ‘friendlier’ considering that it includes transfer options with guaranteed admission who are included as transfers.
Take a look at the fall 2011 transfer statistics: http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf
Here, the acceptance rate for CALS transfer applicants is 46% - but that is including TO’s. I’d imagine the true acceptance rate for ‘true’ transfer applicant is much closer to 20% or below.
Also that link is from 2011. I can only imagine that the number of applicants has since increased and the acceptance rate is lower now.
re#1353:
“For schools that have more than one major such as Arts & Sciences, say the division accepts 100 applicants, can the number be from any major within A&S or are specific numbers accepted for each major such as Government, Computer Science, etc?”
First of all AFAIK only ILR & hotel (at least formerly) have only one major.
For CALS, one’s major must be specified upon application, as I understand it. I imagine CAARP must do this too, probably Hum Ec but can’t say for sure. (Some of you guys must know this).
For the rest, a pre-specified major depends how far along you are when you are applying. For CAS & COE, one’s major only has to be selected at the end of first semester sophomore year IIRC. If you enter before this, whether as a new freshman or as a transfer student, you do not come in with a firm major at the outset. But the college has an idea, from what you write and what you’ve done, about what general areas are most probable for you. They use that to assign you an advisor, if nothing else.
There is no reason to think that these multi-major colleges have firm admissions quotas for each major . Considering they don’t even know what most of their students will actually choose to major in at the time they are admitted. But on the other hand no class ever winds up with 4,000 physics majors and no english majors. So IMO it is likely they have "soft’ guidelines for proportion of likely future humanities majors, likely future physical science majors , etc they are accepting. Whether that extrapolates specifically to the relatively very small # incoming transfer students: my guess is probably just at the extremes. But your guess is no better than mine. Only an actual Cornell admissions officer would really know this as a fact.
At any particular time there may be a small number of impacted majors they are aware of, and its possible admissions are much tougher for those headed in that direction. But again we don’t really know.
re #1373:
"What about CAS/A&S? Does anyone know if it is particularly hard to transfer into Cornell’s CAS History or Economics? "
AFAIK it is unlikely that these would be impacted majors so I would not suppose that these would be harder to transfer into than CAS generally. Although many CAS transfer students would not be having to specify a major at the outset anyway.
However CAS as a whole is hard to transfer into. I don’t see why these particular majors would be any easier to transfer into than CAS generally.
Assuming one’s major needed to be specified at point of transfer.
WOW, thanks!
With CAS then, you’re saying admissions decisions then have nothing to do with whether the admissions team would want to accept a certain number of Government, Math, Sociology, etc, majors?
It’s possible then that there could be 10 admits who are Computer Science majors and 0 who are Physics majors?
@Yankeefan20 I would call admissions if you want to know every detail of the process
@Yankeefan20 please private message them because you are asking an abundance of questions. Also, no one on this thread is an admissions officer. Either contact CAS admissions or wait until we find out results these next two weeks.
No one knows. Anything anyone says here is speculation, and I would not bother admissions either. If you applied for transfer it is what it is at this point - not worth trying to pick apart and speculate how the admission committee operates in hopes of reinforced reassurance.
@Yankeefan20 just call admission with all of these questions
guys relax this is what this thread is for, everyone’s just a little anxious.
It’s not what this thread is for lol. We can’t answer admission questions simply because we AREN’T admissions. We are all just speculating. Also, it’s just very annoying to have 20 messages from the same person asking questions no one knows.
If the questions are that important, they can be privately messaged
I understand some of the questions being asked are very specific and that we may not know the answers to them, but I think there’s no point gatekeeping a public forum. How do you expect the user to know who to private message if they don’t first ask their questions on the thread? This is a stressful time for all of us, what with waiting for decisions and also bc of the virus. If the questions bother you that much, I suggest you visit their profile and press “Ignore.” Please let’s all be patient with each other.
Hi guys. I have a question to those who got the decision. Did the checklist disappear for everyone who got the notification or was there an exception? I am just curious because my checklist is still there as always and if that is an indication that I won’t be hearing the decision next Tuesday.
@anxierin my checklist disappeared only 2 hours before I received my admission