<p>hey, I'm an incoming freshman who just realized that his true talents lie in mathematics.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about doing an internal transfer into A&S from ILR. I would like to take 5 A&S courses for first semester and then apply for transfer second semester. Would it at all possible, depending on my achievement in first semester, to transfer into A&S second semester?</p>
<p>edit: oh, and do I have to take some ILR courses first? (i notice on their website they wanted to see "superior achievement in your current college")</p>
<p>How easy/hard is it to do it? Can I hear some of your experiences please? thanks!</p>
<p>It can be done. My dorm neighbor did exactly what you wanted to do. You will be required to take Organizational Behavior, and perhaps U.S. Labor History depending on which group you end up in. From what my friend told me, the internal transfer process isn't very difficult and he said almost all students get their internal transfer requests accepted. And as a technicality, I believe you will be in the Internal Transfer Division for the second semester and then officially in Arts and Sciences beginning the sophomore year.</p>
<p>yeah you can't transfer into A&S until you've taken 4classes in their school. You'll be taking Econ 101 and Freshman writing which are in A&S, so that's two down. Then next semester you'll be in the Internal Transfer Division and then you can take more classes in A&S and then by the beginning of your sophomore year you'll officially be in A&S.</p>
<p>Your other option would be to take 2 more classes in A&S that count for ILR distrubition credits such as science, cultural perspectives, or western intellectual tradition. This way you'll be taking 4 classes in teh A&S school along with 1 in ILR and you could transfer after one semester.</p>
<p>hey, thanks a lot for your responses! they help a lot!</p>
<p>After seeing your responses, I called up A&S and asked them to make arrangements for the transfer. They just told me that, there is also the possibility that ILR DOES NOT take me back, in the case I was rejected from A&S.</p>
<p>has that happened before? Has anyone's previous college not let them back, simply because they wanted to transfer? What happens then?</p>
<p>I've never heard of someone being kicked out of his/her college because of his desire to transfer. I have a few friends whose applications were rejected because of low GPA, but they are still in their original majors. You need a 3.0 to transfer to arts, so don't mess your GPA up first semester (should be hard to screw up in intro ILR courses).</p>
<p>yea wait..what?? that makes no sense...get to the bottom of that, that sounds very strange. i mean what would they do expell you from cornell? cmon, that doesn't really seem true. unless you were put into some sort of intercollege limbo...</p>
<p>*"So, if you plan on registering in 5 Arts courses during your first semester in ILR, you need to have a backup plan if you cannot matriculate into Arts for any reason; and you need to be aware that ILR may not take you back since you are not committed to their college and would, at that point, be out of sequence with their courses." *</p>
<p>i can imagine that this type of thing would be a problem at cornell.
in fact im thinking of doing this myself, as a transfer i would apply to ILR next year, then internal transfer to the much more competitive CAS.</p>
<p>i agree with spanks, your schedule as a transfer for about the first 2 semesters will be set in stone - you'll end up spending at least an extra year at Cornell costing $45,000 ... plus, they specifically look for these types of students in admissions and pick them out accordingly.</p>
<p>oh ok
my teacher actually told the class last year that if we were interested in cornell we should look into the agriculture department then transfer lol</p>
<p>I know someone who came into ILR as a sophomore transfer and then transfered into A&S as an English major junior year. He never planned to do this originally but fell in love with some of the English classes in A&S. And he is still going to graduate on time.</p>
<p>Make sure you take some upper level math courses before you request the transfer to make certain you are confident about your plans. I took MATH 221 and 222 as an ILR freshman, and it definitely put some hair on my chest. And then I tried to take MATH 311, and… wowzers.</p>
<p>Also note that the math courses won’t count against your ILR curriculum requirements – they can be applied as ILR electives.</p>
<p>And if you are an in-state student and money matters, I would just recommend staying in ILR . You can essentially double major in math and applied economics/statistics for half the prices of A&S tuition. Plus you get to take really nifty courses like labor history and collective bargaining.</p>