Guaranteed Transfer option?

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<p>I have a friend who got rejected, but his message from online says the following:</p>

<p>"This electronic message is not your official notification. You should be receiving an official letter from the undergraduate college to which you applied. In this letter, you will learn that the college is offering you a guaranteed transfer option. Please read the letter carefully and contact the college directly if you have any questions. "</p>

<p>What the heck is this "guaranteed transfer" stuff? I got waitlisted and didn't get anything of the sort! It almost sounds like he got an indirect acceptance?! What's the deal here?</p>

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<p>mind scrolling down ur page?
u'll find 2 more threads devoted to the same</p>

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<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164186%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164186&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>it means you're guranteed to go to Cornell in one year as a transfer student. you go to another school for a year and then after that year transfer to cornell for school. i received this option and i'm not sure whether or not to pursue it but thats basically what it is. they give you a form to fill out and send to them that says you'll go in one year.</p>

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<p>Sorry for the duplicate thread : < But what the heck does this say about me? I was waitlisted and didn't get this. I read the other thread and someone said something about the possibility of getting a guaranteed transfer later on. Does this happen to a lot of waitlisted people?</p>

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<p>So what's the word? Do all waitlisted applicants get this guaranteed transfer option?</p>

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<p>no (10 characters)</p>

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<p>I wish. (+Char)</p>

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<p>So why would they offer this option to a rejected applicant and not a waitlisted applicant? That just doesn't make sense, lol!</p>

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<p>One last bump. Does anybody have any numbers/experience/insight into my last question about waitlist and GT?</p>

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<p>GT's are considered to be 'above' waitlisted applicants. Cornell wants GT's to attend the university while waitlisted applicants are sometimes seen as "let them in if there are spaces to be filled."</p>

<p>Cornell offers the GT as a way of increasing enrollment (not a good idea, IMO). Cornell does not have the space on north campus to house an increased number of freshmen, but transfers are not required to live on north campus so administration will alow for an increase in transfers but not for freshmen. </p>

<p>the GT is not considered a rejected applicant, fyi. I'd say they're semi-accepted ... as long as they meet the requirements of the GT, they'll have a spot open for them in one year. </p>

<p>IMO, the GT is much more secure than the waitlist.</p>

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<p>Thanks, that answers most of my questions :> Do waitlisted applicants often get GT later, or is it quite uncommon?</p>

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<p>i'm not sure about that last question, i've never seen any statistics about that stuff</p>

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<p>lol, alright thanks for humoring my rantings :D Know I just have to wait for that letter from Emory...</p>

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<p>do guaranteed transfers still get housing?</p>

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<p>More info on GT/Waitlisted can be found at:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=46821%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=46821&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Wharf Rat said in post #9:
"Waitlist and Guaranteed Transfer are two different things...
I beleive the GT is only offered at CALS, ILR, and CHE
At CAS and ENG there is no GT"</p>

<p>Also, another poster said you do not get guaranteed transfer if you don't get off the waitlist.</p>

<p>Copied and pasted from richs73cas's #5 post,</p>

<p>"2004
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............2411
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................1988
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted..........................171</p>

<p>2003
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............1983
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................1632
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.............................4</p>

<p>2002
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............2370
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................1942
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted..........................124</p>

<p>2001
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............2131
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................2116
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted...........................55</p>

<p>2000
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............2131
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................2116
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted...........................55</p>

<p>1999
Number of qualified Applicants Placed on Wait List.............2730
Number Accepting a Place on the Wait List.....................1481
Number of wait-listed Students Admitted.............................3"</p>

<p>From the new report in <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/cds.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/cds.htm&lt;/a> , </p>

<p>2005
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list <strong>2,643</strong>_
Number accepting a place on the waiting list <em>1,544</em>___
Number of wait-listed students admitted <em>209</em>___</p>

<p>Overall, it looks like the number of people admitted off the waitlist has been rising. Best of luck to this year's waitlisted applicants.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the Stats! Btw, CAS does offer GT (my friend in question applied to CAS and got GT, which is the entire origin of this question)</p>

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<p>My mistake, then. Thanks for clearing that up. =)</p>

<p>In the following link, there's a Waitlist FAQ for the College of Engineering. Umm, CAS FAQ doesn't offer a waitlist section.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/prospective/undergraduate/admissions-faqs.cfm#wait%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/prospective/undergraduate/admissions-faqs.cfm#wait&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Oh, and posted on <a href="http://ms7.dpbwin2k.cornell.edu/documents/1000020.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ms7.dpbwin2k.cornell.edu/documents/1000020.pdf&lt;/a> page 2</p>

<p>"Students admitted from the waitlist are just as strong as students admitted through regular and early decision based on standard, quantifiable measures. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is no dramatic drop-off in academic quality when colleges admit from the waitlist. For an institution like Cornell, this is especially significant because we have such a large and strong applicant pool."</p>

<p>W00t two posts in one day! I'm getting back into the CC-groove. =)</p>

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<p>My son was offered the guaranteed transfer last year, but after going to Tufts University for the first semester, he said he had no interest in transferring to Cornell, (you have to let them know by early March Freshman year). He loves Tufts and the Boston area. Once you get established in a school, it's more difficult, but not impossible to transfer.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the insight! I've pretty much written off Cornell and am starting to look forward to going to another school!</p>