<p>o I am a first year at Berkeley, applying for second year</p>
<p>GPA at Berkeley: first semester: 3.86, second semester, who knows
GPA at TAMS: 3.7</p>
<p>first semester, english, ethnic studies, and political sciencec
second semester: organic chemistry, english, computer science, war and peace in the middle east</p>
<p>Sat I: 2020, SAT II Math: 700, SAT II Chem: 700</p>
<p>Researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</p>
<p>Very close to professors, very good recs, not many other ecs, high school did lots of science fair, and attended Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, intense research in 11th and 12th grade as well</p>
<p>I want to transfer mainly because of low undergraduate experience at Berkeley. I like Cornell's small feel and funding. I'm a researcher, so I'm gonna be doing a lot of that in biology</p>
<p>^ Agreed. You sound like a solid transfer (make sure to mention how you feel that Cornell is a better fit and how you are going to research a lot there [kind of an obvious thing but, ya know]). Best of luck!</p>
<p>I'm not the best authority to be discussing this but from my experience I don't think Cornell is considered small (at least not introductory classes, since I'm still freshman). I don't know. Someone who's been at different colleges might be able to confirm this.</p>
<p>as a freshman, cornell doesn't have that small of a feel...then again my berkeley friends say most of their classes have 100+ people, where most of my classes have 30- people. but if it's a small atmosphere you're looking for, cornell probably shouldn't be at the top of your list, there are others out there.</p>