<p>I got rejected tonight..I applied to CAS as a Mathematics major.....These are my basic stats:</p>
<p>College GPA:3.8 with 90 quarter unit credits from University of California, San Diego
Midterm GPA: 3.9 sumthing
Math GPA: 4.0(8 courses)
HS GPA: Almost perfect GPA(very competitive high school)
SAT I: 1450/1600
SAT II: 780,770,670
EC's: Internship with NASA
Director, Enterpreneurial society
Work more than 30 hours a week
Research since freshman year and got published.
Top Painting award in national competition etc etc etc
Recommendations: Excellent
Essays: Pretty good</p>
<p>"Yes.. that is also why Cornell has a guaranteed transfer program.. where students who are clear admits might still be admitted at higher ranked schools and matriculate there.."</p>
<p>the dean of the ILR school said that a GT is used a way of increasing enrollment to qualified students. Cornell can't admit any more freshmen due to housing issues on north campus where freshmen have to live. They're not required to give housing to transfer students, so giving out GT's is a way of getting the same calibur of student w/o having to provide housing on north campus.</p>
<p>Yeah. Quite the motivation they provide with a GPA lower limit of 3.3. Most GT have significantly lower stats than the regular transfer pool and as I have noticed are barely motivated. It's time they build another dorm or change the requirements.</p>
<p>"Most GT have significantly lower stats than the regular transfer pool"</p>
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<li><p>I havn't noticed that. I live with 200 transfer students. The smartest ones are usually the ones who had the GT (9 of 10 students do). The same applies for the "motivated" part. </p></li>
<li><p>GT's were qualified from high school. They applied as freshmen. All they have to do is maintain a minimum GPA and they're in. Why try hard when they can be admitted while people with 4.0's are being rejected left and right.</p></li>
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1. I havn't noticed that. I live with 200 transfer students. The smartest ones are usually the ones who had the GT (9 of 10 students do). The same applies for the "motivated" part.
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Which dorm has so many transfer students other than the Transfer Living Center? (I am, of course, assuming you are not a transfer)</p>
<p>I do agree that the 3.2 Limit (this was the bottom limit for CAS GTs) was laughable, and the only reason I got a nice GPA last semester was because I wanted to try for transfers into other colleges.</p>
<p>u guys have to realize, that GTs aren't usually for CAS, in fact, barely any CAS kids get these GTs. As you have noticed, students applying to ILR and CALS have gotten in no problem, as transfers. CAS is prob the most competitive college at Cornell. It is weird b/c its easy for students to internally transfer into CAS once they are hear. It is like a 90-95 percent acceptance rate for internal transfers. I guess, its nice to know that they treat their own nicely.</p>
<p>I know that it is definitely not the problem if you applied on the last day because I applied after the deadline and cornell still keep sending me information</p>
<p>GT are mostly for ILR ( i am one of them)
also the reason why it looks like it is easy to get into cornell as a transfer is because the gt's are added to the accceptance rate and that inflates it</p>
<p>"GT are mostly for ILR ( i am one of them)
also the reason why it looks like it is easy to get into cornell as a transfer is because the gt's are added to the accceptance rate and that inflates it"</p>
<p>One would think that since CALS is a bigger college, it would issue more GTs than ILR. Would one be wrong? I'm not sure. I'm CALS GT btw.</p>
<p>Rejecting someone because they sent the app on the last day would be silly.</p>
<p>A very serious applicant might finish the app well before the deadline and decide to hold onto it until the last minute. You know, reread it 100 times.</p>
<p>Now, if it looks like you wrote the essays the night before... Then yeah, that's a perfectly good reason to get rejected. lol</p>