<p>I had a thread a while ago with me debating whether or not to apply transfer. I decided that I'm going to, so I'd love to hear everyone's opinion on my chances. So, let's get on with it:</p>
<p>High School</p>
<p>GPA = 4.0 (unweighted)
Coursework = as rigorous as possible, since my school offered no APs
ACT = 33
Class rank = 1 of 38</p>
<p>Lots of volunteering, etc.. but nothing overly impressive. Was waitlisted at Brown, UPenn, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Notre Dame. I ended up going to UW-Madison.</p>
<p>College</p>
<p>Semester 1
Chem 103 = A
Calc 221 = A
English 168 = A
Music 43 = A</p>
<p>Semester 2
Chem 104 = B
Calc 222 = B
Afro-American Art 242 = A
Phy. Ed 101 = AB
Music 43 = A</p>
<p>Semester 3
Chem 343 = AB
Biology 151 = A
LIS 201 = A
Health Care 105 = A
Music 43 = A</p>
<p>Held a job for my second semester, have volunteered at the UW-Hospital, am volunteering at a homeless shelter and doing some research next semester.</p>
<p>My rec letter will be pretty good from my TA for LIS201.</p>
<p>My essays will definitely be solid. I'm working on my Cornell supplement one and getting detailed on why I chose CAS over CALS and Human Ecology for Biology.</p>
<p>Do I stand a decent chance for Cornell? Anywhere that I should particularly focus on?</p>
<p>Usually, ranking #1 in a school helps a lot. Then again, your class size is really… small. I am not sure how that will affect your chances, since that is generally a major hook. Your situation is unique. Just go for it and don’t worry!</p>
<p>Not a bad GPA and UW’s a good school. You should stand a decent shot, although, especially for transfer admissions, you may have a better chance at CALS or HumEc. That’s assuming however, you don’t have a good reason to choose CAS instead, which you said you do. Good luck!</p>
<p>@Antiflamer - yeah, my high school was super small. But I feel like I did what I could with it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement from both of you. A question regarding schools - if I had to choose one or the other, what would be best for getting accepted? CALS or HumEc? I ask because I’m just starting my essay and each of the three schools fit a different part of my personality. I could make a compelling argument for any of them to be honest, and part of my essay explains/will explain how it was difficult to choose which school I wanted.</p>
<p>HumEc and CALS are close enough in selectivity with regard to transfer admissions (the complete breakdown can be found at <a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf</a> , although I’ll caution you to read too much into those numbers as both CALS and HumEC take an indeterminate number of guaranteed transfers that skew the results–you can still see, however, the clear difference between those two schools and CAS in terms of selectivity) that your best is just to look at both schools’ course requirements for a bio major, the different bio majors offered (Biology, Bio and Society, Etc), and the other departments in the school (for example, if you wanted to try, say, a business minor–go with CALS–but if you were interested in taking courses in public policy–go with HumEc).</p>
<p>Thanks, that helped a lot. I think I’ve viewed that before, but I didn’t realize the drastic difference between CAS and the other two (albeit slightly skewed). I think CALS will probably be my best bet since it was my second choice behind CAS. I’ve done some research on CALS, but I’ll do a whole lot more tomorrow.</p>
<p>Can someone help me understand the “required coursework” for transfer into CALS? I’ll have the two semesters of Bio done, but what does it mean by:</p>
<p>“Two College Writing/English Composition (not literature or writing intensive) courses or one writing/composition course and one Public Speaking course.”</p>
<p>I have taken English 168: Intro To Modern Lit and LIS201: The Information Society which both required a lot of writing (the latter fulfilled Communication B requirement). In addition, I have to write a 20+ page research paper at the end of this semester for the research I’m doing. Does anyone know if these classes fulfill Cornell’s requirement?</p>
<p>If you e-mail somebody in CALS admissions, they might let you know if a course would count toward transfer credit. ILR does this at least, CALS might be different.</p>
<p>I’m hoping emailing helps, because calling was worthless. The lady I talked to basically went out of her way to be as unhelpful as possible; it was an incredibly frustrating experience. Does anyone know how close classes have to be? My LIS class sounds kind of familiar to one of the Science and Technology classes. English 168 covered literature from the last 50 years, but every one of CALS’s English seminars are too specific so I’m really not sure where that could fit.</p>