<p>Can you switch your college from CALS to CAS after you get your admission as CALS?</p>
<p>lol so you wanted to get into cas all along eh? </p>
<p>Why didn't you just apply to cas to begin with?</p>
<p>C'mon, you know what I mean -> CALS has 50% admission rate where as CAS has like 17%.</p>
<p>yeah i see exactly what you mean. ;)</p>
<p>sneeky but hey.... do that if you don't feel confident enough to apply to cas.</p>
<p>From what i've read internal transfers are relatively easy. </p>
<p>I was originally afraid that i would get in and was thinking about applying to human ecology at first; but then i thought 'hey what the heck' and i decided to apply to CAS. I got into cas so i was happy with my decision.</p>
<p>if you need help or advice for the process just aim or pm me.</p>
<p>I had a friend swith from CALS to CAS. According to her, in order to transfer out of CALS into CAS you have to request an intraschool transfer form, and then have a minimal GPA of a 3.3. After that, its all up to the board to decide whether or not they're willing to consider your application.</p>
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Congratulations! It is my pleasure to inform you that your application for transfer admission to Applied & Engineering Physics in the College of Engineering has been approved. This offer of admission applies only to this particular engineering field, and you must remain in that field for one full academic year. Your field has determined that you would begin your engineering program at the first semester sophomore level.
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That's directly from my acceptance email. I don't know how other schools are with internal transfers after an external transfer but be prepared to stick it out in CALS for a while. Also, many schools (read Penn) get a lot of backdoor applicants and they've become pretty good at sniffing them out.</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>What does CALS mean? I'm guessing CAS means College of Arts and Sciences..</p>
<p>CALS = College of Agriculture and Life Sciences</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>thx EPorrell</p>
<p>unless you plan on taking a lot of endowed college (ho, cas, eng, aap) classes (you are allowed a max of 21 cr.) and CAS has the major you want - bio and econ is really the only two major I can see being anywhere similar, maybe you should stay in CALS. as a transfer, switching into CAS even after a year of being at cornell may put you at a disadvantage if some of your credits don't transfer. CAS has gotten a lot stricter in their distribution requirements, and even many classes that used to count for distribution (Group IV mainly) don't count for any of the 5 distribution (CA, LA, HA, etc) and I hope you took foreign language elsewhere -- 200 level -- because at cornell, it will be hard. All foreign languages taught here are extremely hard. </p>
<p>anyhoo, i think you should just see how much you get along with CALS, if you do have a change of major that CAS has, then by all means transfer. Some people might think that's sketchy, but a cornell degree is a cornell degree no matter what college you get it from. For me, the opposite happened, going from CAS to HE, it might sound like i'm taking it easier, but i'm not. i'm taking nearly identical classes if not cross-listed with CAS, and it makes no difference. I chose to transfer because I got annoyed with CAS's graduation requirements, but most importantly I just fell in love with Human Development.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think you should gather the necessary information by going to info sessions, talking to advisors and other students, and make a decision then rather than now. you just might find that you like CALS better. but if you are set on CAS, but are daunted by the admitted stats, and are trying to circumvent that through CALS, i don't know, but i just hope you have very good reasons on that internal transfer application for why you transferred into cornell cals and a year later transfer to cas.</p>
<p>Even if you get a min GPA of 3.3, are you not actually guaranteed to transfer from CALS to CAS?(b/c it's all up to the board?)
About how long do you have to stay in CALS to switch to CAS?</p>
<p>hey. i know you posted a little over 3 years ago now and i have no idea if you even look at this site anymore, but i'm in the same shoes are you were before. i was wondering if you were able to transfer from CALS to CAS, how the process was, and if you didnt or were not able to, why? haha if you do get this message and are able to help me out, id really appreciate it thanks.</p>