Should I transfer to Cornell University even though I am not sure about their international transfer’s financial aid situation?
I am a rising sophomore (finished my first year and going to the second) in a non- research liberal arts public university in the deep south of the US. I am originally Egyptian (I am an international student with an F1 visa)
When I was in high school, I applied to Cornell on early decision and got accepted, but since I applied for the wrong semester I didn’t receive financial aid, so I didn’t go.
I have recently been to summer research workshop at Cornell and made connections with the supervising professor of the workshop, who is willing to write me a letter of recommendation if I apply as a transfer, and I have also met and talked with the officer responsible for transfer admissions. I am saying this because it makes me think that having a faculty recommendation and communication with people in the system other than the fact that my application did pass the filters of Cornell admissions in the past are all factors that will get me accepted.
If I don’t get enough aid when I apply, I won’t go. If I want to apply, I have to plan my sophomore year classes taking general req.s, which otherwise I would have CLEPed (Cornell doesn’t accept CLEPs while my school does) I am on scholarship so I only can finish in four years and take a certain number of credits each semester.
I am considering Cornell because getting in there for bachelor’s would pave my way into a good ph.D. program and I want to do research that my current school does not allow. I am also an international student which means that most REUs (that are NSF funded and thus only for American citizens or permenant residents) are not available for me.
Does anybody know of Cornell’s international transfer financial aid situation? - -