ILR International transfer : Do I stand a fighting chance?

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<p>Hello. I am a Korean freshman student who spent just one semester in my college. I have several questions about the transfer process of ILR school. I have a plan to apply for ILR as a transfer student for fall semester next year. ( Any information would be appreciated!)</p>

<p>My particulars:</p>

<p>College
GPA - 4.5 out of 4.5 (Rank : 1/127) : Straight A+s in 18 credits.
Extracurriculars : Vouluteer tutoring for 2 months in my first semester.
Summer English programme for 40 days in summer vacation
(Graduated with top 10%)
Classes taken : Management, Calculus, Statistics, Logistics (All introductory courses)</p>

<p>High School
GPA - Valedictorian (1/512 or 2/512 I think so...)
Extracurricualrs : About 100 hours volunteer works in a hospital
Founder of School English newspaper
Interships on Kids English newspaper</p>

<p>*I have a gap year between college and HS, because it is not surprise for Korean students to have a gap year to have a better score in Korean SAT in order to enter more prestigious school. I am a bit worried how Cornell Admission Officers would think of this...</p>

<p>Questions:</p>

<p>(1)Which extracurricular activities should I do? I was thinking of a volunteering tutor, but I realized that this EC was not related to ILR field.... What would you recommend me to do?</p>

<p>(2) DO the classes I have taken in my current college affect a lot when admission officers make decisions? I have taken introduction courses of statistics, management,calculus, and logistics. In order to impress admission officers, which course should I take for the next semester?</p>

<p>(3)Do international students who wish to transfer to the ILR school have as much chance to be accepted as the american students do? or Any information about international transfer to Cornell University would be appreciated.
According to the post I found here in College Confidential(<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/161001-ilr-transfer-rate.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/161001-ilr-transfer-rate.html&lt;/a&gt;)
the real transfer acceptance rate for ILR was about 30%, which sounded hopeful to me not until I realized that IVY League schools are relatively closed to international students. And I think it is safe to assume that in transfer admission, the chances of accptance would decrease for international students because the schools do not believe that foreign instituions do good jobs on educating their students.</p>

<p>(4)I have no SAT scores at all, since my high school was not an international school which is for students who wished to apply for American colleges. Do I have to bother to take it?</p>

<p>Sorry for a long post. I wish you the readers the best luck for your future. Thank you!!</p>

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<p>Couple things to note. </p>

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<li><p>ILR’s acceptance rate is inflated by Guaranteed Transfers. Expect the acceptance rate to be far, far lower than 30% for pure external transfers (same with any of Cornell’s other colleges). Furthermore, expect the international transfer acceptance rate to be even lower than that.</p></li>
<li><p>On that note, international transfers do not receive need-blind consideration. Your ability to pay the COA very much affects your chance of getting admitted, and as a consequence, international transfers have the lowest acceptance rate of any category of Cornell applicant. </p></li>
<li><p>Take the SAT or ACT.</p></li>
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