Which school in Cornell is friendliest towards transfers?
CALS accept more students than other schools at Cornell. They accept around 300 students, whereas IRL accepts around 120 students and the rest accepts around 60 students. However, since it is known that CALS accept more students, I am sure more students are applying there as well. There are no recent statistics of the numbers of transfer students applying to each school so the actual acceptance rates are not known.
My suggestion is you should just apply for the school that fits you the most and not the one you think is easiest to get into. It is about your passions and future career major not just Cornell’s reputation and its ranking. Some people just apply to all the ivy schools when they are actually all different. You are not going to be a good fit in all of them, trust me. Good luck!
CAS also accepts around 100 students btw
Do you mean ‘friendliest’ as in ‘easy to get into’ or as in ‘the students are welcoming to incoming transfer students’?
Given how different the schools / subjects are, trying to figure out which one is ‘easiest’ to get into and applying to that one one (just to get the Cornell name?) could be setting yourself up for a very unhappy time (not to mention the difficulty in selling the college on your, um, genuine interest in the area).
As for being welcoming, that is hard to say- I asked a couple of current students (in Engineering, CAS and CALS) what they thought, and while they all thought that their school was welcoming, they really couldn’t say any thing about the other schools. One thing about all of the schools at Cornell: they seem to attract very committed, even intense, students, and (from an outside view) I would guess that it depends on how well that suits you.
The contract colleges get the most transfers, proportionally, and have the most “guaranteed transfer” students as well.
Integration is best accomplished with a cohort of those in similar circumstances as you are, so these would be the most welcoming situations for new ransfers. IMO.
But wherever you matriculate you will have to fulfill the major, in-college and distribution requirements of that school and program. That’s the bigger consideration. Most people are not indifferent to what they have to study and learn.
@monydad so does that mean the guaranteed transfer applicants will actually take most of the spots, lowering the acceptance rates for regular transfer students?
@Boroboro- absolutely. That’s why the transfer acceptance rates look (relatively) high.
Possibly. I have not seen any breakouts though.
@collegemom3717 @monydad that just crushed my heart T__T I am a transfer applicant haha but I will still have faith!