<p>Hi, I am probably applying RD to Cornell next year (I am a junior) to CALS. I am interested in studying economics at Cornell, but all my ECs and even my subject choices point towards a food chemistry major (lol) so I think it would be easier if I got accepted into CALS first then be worried about changing to the College of Arts and Sciences.<br>
So I just wanted to know if internal transfers are hard and complicated, or whether it's really just like one application of transfer form that I need to hand in.</p>
<p>How about you do the honest/moral thing and apply to the major/college that you truly want to be in instead of playing games and trying to backdoor in. Just think, if you do that, you might be taking the place of someone who truly wants (and deserves) to be in Food Science/CALS and you will have to spend at least a year in a major/college that you are not happy in. CALS looks really closely at fit to the major, so if you apply somewhere that you are not passionate about you run the risk of not getting in at all - especially if it is a very specific field like food science.</p>
<p>@nell08hd Sorry. It’s not that I don’t want to learn about food science - otherwise I wouldn’t have ECs involving them. It’s just that there is no economics department in CALS besides AEM, which I am not very interested in. I am in no way trying to find the back door in. I would be very happy in CALS; its just that I would also very much like to learn Economics, and double majoring across schools in unavailable at Cornell.
Besides, the Cornell Admissions department will send your application to another school within Cornell if they think you are a better fit for a different school. This means that if I send my application to CAS with all those ECs, they will probably reject me there and transfer my application to CALS. </p>
<p>Did you ever think of looking into AEM’s concentration in Food Industry Management? That combines economics and food science. From what I hear, it is quite rare for applications to be sent between schools, it only happy in a very unique situations. I would still choose to apply to the major/college that you are truly interested in. You can always explain why you have so many ECs in food science and why you still chose to apply to CAS. Each college is looking for students with diverse interests.</p>