Transfer from PURDUE EE to Cornell EE

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<p>I am new here in CC forum, hope to get some help
I am a EE junior student at Purdue University. I already finished 2 years study in Purdue with 74 credits. As for my junior year, I am currently doing the Co-Op in Technicolor SA in Indianapolis and will work till May 2011. While I am doing Co-Op, I want to try to apply for transfer to Cornell. </p>

<p>High School: graduated with 3.7/4.00(unweighted) from a high school in Asia. Ranked 2/52 within my class.
Poor SAT1:2000, CR:600, MA:800, W:600, that is why i joined Purdue.(decent scholarship)
College GPA:3.8(a little bit weak for Cornell?)</p>

<p>Research Experience:
Summer 2010: Did summer research with a professor and two papers will published by the end of 2010. Both 3rd author</p>

<p>Recommondation:
Postive: One from my research professor, two from my honor courses professors.</p>

<p>Work Experience:
1, Summer Business Analyst in Accenture (Summer 2009)
2, Co-Op SDE in Technicolor (August 2010 - May 2011)
3, Undergraduate TA for Physics in my sophomore year (Jan 2010 - May 2010)</p>

<p>Honor and Awards:
1, ECE Honors Program: There are only 15 students accepted to ECE honors program and I already took 5 honor courses and got all A or A-.
2, Karl H. Bollenbach Memorial Scholarship: $2015 per year for ECE student
3, Presidential Scholarship: $28000 for 4 years awards to outstanding freshmen
4, Tau Beta Pi: Engineering honor society
5, NSCS: The National Society of Collegiate Scholars</p>

<p>ECs:
1, Purdue PPA
Purdue Professional Practice Ambassadors is Co-Op students group. As the publicity director, I am in charge of help students prepare for the internship.
2, Purdue EPICS
As a project leader, I led two projects, Pay As You Throw for West Lafayette Government and Electrochemical Sensor Design for The Lafayette Police Department.
3, Purdue CESC
Purdue University Chinese Engineering Student Council is a student group for engineering students. As the former VP,I was in charge of the industrial research.
4, Heart & Soul, Purdue Music Org
The Heat & Soul is a small gospel choir, We performed a lot in local church and also Purdue Christmas Show. I was the tenor.
5, IEEE</p>

<p>600+ hours volunteer</p>

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Will my SAT hurt my Application even if I apply as junior transfer?
Do those Top schools will care about my intern experience and research experience?</p>

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<p>Uninformed opinion here, but I would guess they would look at everything. Including the HS tests, with far decreased weight at this point, and what you’ve done in college, with lots more weight. COE transfer % have been microscopic, so they can be quite picky, depends if they prefer those few slots for the well rounded type (eg great verbal & extracurrics), or the “uber-geek”, or the best of such people who can pay full freight, maybe those targeting less-full majors, etc. About which I’ve no idea.</p>

<p>It sounds like you’re doing great at Purdue though, and Purdue is a great engineering school. I would think that a top grad out of there would have similar opportunities within engineering that a Cornell grad would have. And there is risk in switching, eg if you came here you could wind up doing worse, maybe social situation, as a transfer, might be hard to restart, etc.</p>

<p>So you might consider staying put.</p>

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<p>@Monydad
Thanks for your advise. Purdue engineering program is decent, however, I feel that Purdue’s reputation is really just within the midwest.</p>

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<p>IMO its reputation within the engineering profession is not just local; it’s pretty much always been a highly regarded engineering school. But it’s true that engineering employment can be highly regional; the extent to which actual opportunities from there transcend region, this I don’t know for a fact.</p>

<p>You might check at your engineering career center and see if you can find out the extent to which national recruiters are coming there recruiting for out-of-region jobs.</p>

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<p>@Monydad
Since I already finished 2 years of study in Purdue. I know pretty much about Purdue’s employment trend. My concern is to go to a higher reputation undergraduate school not just about engineering. Also, my friend transfered to Conrell last year and told me about the curriculum there is quite similar. The reason I take my 3rd year to do Co-Op is that I think work experience is very important especially for international students.</p>

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<p>Evidently Purdue works quite differently than Cornell, when I attended at least. At that time, underclassmen were generally not well aquainted with what went on in the engineering career center, since these resources were utilized for graduating seniors seeking jobs and not underclassmen. The coop-ers would see a little, but not much.
I’m pretty sure most sophomores there would have been clueless about Cornell’s “employment trend”, or what might be awaiting them when they became seniors and started looking into employment.
As a sophomore, I’d barely just chosen a major, had no clue about who the firms were in a given field, or what the jobs were either.</p>

<p>But you know, so good for you.</p>

<p>If your friend transferred last year he probably knows many of the other engineering transfers in his class, and may have a better handle on who they are taking now than probably anybody here.</p>

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<p>@Monydad
Yep, thanks a lot. He actually didnt have SAT score but still got in as a junior which really surprised me and gave me some hope. Anyway, I well get to know more about Cornell.</p>