<p>A lot is going around about the following statement, which I just received from ILR.</p>
<p>"Within the next few days you will receive notification from the undergraduate college to which youve applied that you are being offered a transfer option. Please contact the college directly if you have any questions. "</p>
<p>If you remove "from the undergraduate college to which you've applied," the sentence reads, "Within the next few days you will receive notification that you are being offered a transfer option." That leads me to believe there is some kind of transfer option being offered. I'm not sure of what that option is, but other's are saying that not all rejections included this paragraph, so there is some difference.</p>
<p>I think they’re just changing the language. It’s not guaranteed because you have to get a certain gpa and take certain courses. My guess is that they are keeping it broad because, in reality, the transfer is by no means guaranteed. And as of now, it is just an option as the letter states.</p>
<p>If you work diligently with the college on verifying first-year courses meet the prescribed transfer coursework and receive whatever grades/gpa listed in the terms of the transfer option, the College will honor the option.</p>
<p>Hey guys, I got that message too, and today I received my Transfer Option packet from ILR in the mail. It has all the requirements (3.3 GPA and no grade less than a B and the courses that need to be fulfilled). I will be sending in the letter of intent to utilize the option promptly and am heading to University of Delaware Honors for the year I believe. I assume this is the same a GT but with the more careful wording of “Transfer Option” this year. What do you all make of it, and who else is taking the offer up?</p>
<p>What do you mean that “so many of us have received this offer?” About 35k students applied, and there’s only 8 replies in this thread and a few hundred views. I got this for CALS and although I’m sure “a handful” got the offer, I haven’t seen anyone from CALS yet who got it. I’m pretty sure the transfer option used to be called “guarenteed transfer” a few years back, the name change makes it seem so much less cool. But I’m pretty excited that I could have an Ivy League experience just from getting a 3.0 GPA freshman year from a state school, nothing else. You should be too :D.</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Administrators Dispute New York Times Transfer Article | The Cornell Daily Sun](<a href=“http://cornellsun.com/node/47240]Cornell”>http://cornellsun.com/node/47240)
~ 1500 applicants at the contract colleges are offered the “conditional acceptance” (old article, but shouldn’t change too much in numbers over last several years).</p>
<p>much fewer actually take it the second year though - many have already settled in nicely to their schools. It’s better than getting waitlisted though.</p>
<p>I was accepted to Michigan and recently came back from a visit. I love the school, but Cornell ILR was my dream school. I am still devastated that I didn’t get in, but I did get the transfer options…</p>
<p>Should I go to Michigan, settle down, not sign this contract, and just forget about going to Cornell? Or should I just leave it as an option? I really didn’t want to be put in this situation, since I wanted to go to a school and be dedicated to it for all 4 years.</p>
<p>What would you guys do? Michigan for 4 years or Cornell GT?</p>
<p>My daughter got this offer and it can be a win win for her. Cornell now has to wait for her decision. Where ever you go you work hard, make friends ,etc. If you love where you are you stay. And if you have any doubts the you get to go to Cornell. You don’t need to decide till next May 1st. My daughter is going to go to her school of her choice and she will figure it out when the time comes. It is a gift to get this offer very few do. Cornell reports between 570-610 transfer a year and all you have to do is follow the guidelines. Not a bad deal at all.</p>
<p>I got this for the CALS but haven’t received any notification through email or mail. I’m going to George Washington next year, but it’s kind of cool because I’m technically the first person in the history of my school to get an ivy league acceptance, which my school is considering this as… haha :)</p>