<p>Okay my question...HOW do internal transfers at Cornell work? The difficulty in achieving, process taken, etc....</p>
<p>For an example: A College of Engineering freshman decides he wants to transfer to CAS or the Hotel School. Or even vice versa. How can it be done? </p>
<p>If comparisons can be given to other schools, notably UPenn or Duke, all would be lovely... ;)</p>
<p>I think a little more background on your particular concerns would make it easier to answer your question. </p>
<p>From what I understand, its doable if you can justify it, but a hassle as you have to be taking the classes in the first college as your trying to transfer to the second.</p>
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<p>Well if you’re a freshman and you’re only taking basic core classes, shouldn’t they all be the same? I’m not talking about switching colleges as a mid-year junior engineer or something.</p>
<p>And I almost forgot…How is changing MAJORS in a particular college, particularly CAS at Cornell. Is it difficult or does it need to be justified in any way? Is it similar at other schools?</p>
<p>You don’t decide on a major until the end of your sophomore year. If you need to change then, well. Good luck with more schooling.</p>
<p>Oh thanks Lollerpants! That sounds nice. But don’t you have to choose a major as an incoming freshman on your application? And doesn’t choosing a competitive major like Political Science for instance decrease your chances of getting into the college as opposed to picking something like Botany or Horticulture?</p>
<p>It’s like tentative major, you can always change before junior year basically. I thought so at least.</p>
<p>it sounds like the op is still in high school …Cornell has 7 separate undergrad schools - you apply and are accepted to one…changing majors between schools is more difficult than changing majors within one school - such as changing from PoliSci to Math in A&S - but changing into a separate school would be more difficult (tho many people, including me!) do it every year…</p>
<p>but first research the undergrad schools at Cornell.</p>
<p>In CAS and Engineering it is a tentative major and thus you don’t have to specify one and can apply undecided.
CALS, HumEc, AAP you must choose your major.
ILR and Hotel don’t have majors within them.</p>
<p>And no, choosing a “competitive major like Political Science” does not increase your chances of getting in, per se</p>
<p>Ehh, for CALS and HumEc though you can still switch around. I know plenty of people who have switched their majors within those colleges, so it’s still not like set in stone at least in freshman year.</p>
<p>Thanks guys. And yeah still in high school… :/</p>
<p>I basically was aware of most of that, but I heard that applying “Undecided” hurt your chances of acceptance? After all, the adcoms want to see demonstrated interest of government if I’m applying as Political Science or maybe demonstrated interest of Economics if I am applying as an econ major. Thats what I’ve read a lot at least?</p>
<p>No I said choosing a competitive major like Political Science would DECREASE chances of getting in, right? After all, they need spots to fill up other less attractive majors…</p>
<p>Does anyone ever pull off the dirty game of applying as a Horticulture major or something obscure and then changing to something more practical like Political Science or Chemistry?</p>
<p>I doubt that Cornell admissions cares a lot about what major you put down on your application, i.e. I don’t think they give that much more preference to someone who puts down a rare major like Asian Studies over a common major like Biology (I’m just talking about Arts and Sciences here, the other colleges operate a bit differently). Why? Because it’s so easy to change! The major you put down on your application is far from set in stone–you can even change it before you start your freshman year. I myself applied to Cornell as a physics major (with some demonstrated interest, and I’m female) so assuming admissions did give me an advantage over other applicants, what a bad idea that would have been! Because I ended up changing my major to undecided before I started in the fall, and am now thinking of majoring in something within humanities/social sciences.</p>
<p>College applicants often have very little idea of what they’re doing when they declare a major on their application, so their decision should be taken with a very large grain of salt. Cornell, I’m sure, knows this.</p>
<p>As far as internal transfers go, I know of a number of people who have applied and nearly all of them have been accepted. It’s more complicated if you’re transferring to something totally different like engineering to hotel school, but most people aren’t. The only real difficulties are juggling different kinds of classes (classes your old college requires and classes your new college requires) and getting to know a new advisor.</p>
<p>i transferred internally from human ecology to hotel (not through ITD, just direct) so pm me with any questions</p>
<p>Also, it makes sense to choose a major that is at least some way backed up by work you’ve done in high school. If you’ve done poly sci stuff all the time and then apply for horticulture, it would be as silly as someone growing plants and then applying for poly sci.</p>
<p>Well what if you’ve done a good balance of things, nothing emphasized in particular, and you just want the best chance of getting in?</p>
<p>If you have the stats then I would apply to CAS, as its kinda made for people that want to try a bunch of different things.</p>