<p>Does Cornell frown upon transfer students who then try to transfer internally after their first semester?</p>
<p>i dont really know…i am hoping to do the same thing from ILR to engineering. Does anyone know if there is a NEW rule that you CANNOT transfer out of ILR and must remain there all four years? I thought i remembered hearing that at an info session. I really hope thats not the case, if so I am prepared to fight it!!!</p>
<p>I’m coming in to ILR as a GT next year. When I was possibly looking into switching majors after transferring in I found this on the AEM page.</p>
<p>“External transfer students who have already transferred to other Cornell colleges are rarely considered for internal transfer.”</p>
<p>This probably is AEM only (given how competitive it is) and for the other schools it’s probably easier but that said I’m probably going to be sticking with ILR and just using the electives to fulfill my other interests.</p>
<p>Also really not a good idea to transfer in thinking you can just do another internal transfer. At least give it a shot, if you hate whatever your majoring in then chances are you can probably find a program to transfer into.</p>
<p>Transferring in, then doing an internal transfer is extremely shady. It shows that you applied to a school with a more generous acceptance rate, knowing you wouldn’t get into the school you actually wanted, which has the lower acceptance rate. Cornell would recognize the game play, and would most likely not let you unless you had some amazingly exceptional reason.</p>
<p>I had a friend who transferred to Cornell (CAS) and successfully completed an internal transfer to CHE. However, he was a Bio major in CAS and decided after our first year that he wanted to study HBHS.</p>
<p>well im not trying to play Cornell like a fool. I applied to CALS as an info sci major, and its something i would really like to major in, but when in comes down to it i dont know if id want to pursue a career in that area. The thing is that im completely uncertain what I want to do, i was thinking of switching to CAS math major just cuzz its a strong degree to have and gives you a broad range of career choices</p>
<p>also i know that they have a mentor program. If you do rele well in a class for the major you want to switch to, you can ask your professor to be your mentor in the transfer and that speeds up the process and basically guarantees you to switch. Its probubly much easier to switch into CAS just cuzz its not the most competitive, but trying to do an internal into engineering or architecture is tough, and if ur already a transfer student trying to switch into one of those it kinda shows u were planning it</p>
<p>@R324u: shouldn’t you have thought of that before you applied? not trying to be rude, but cornell is really big on emphasizing fit for a major and school. i mean, you wrote all those essays on why CALS and info science is perfect for you…i just think it looks weird that now you don’t know if that’s what you want.</p>
<p>@hyperlite</p>
<p>its just a thought, i havent been planning it and im still not planning on doing it. And i was a freshman at college, it happens. One day you are really enthusiastic about one thing and then the next you find something else. I had to take calc for transfer, I wrote those essays for the app during my christmas break and they were very good because i was sincere and I truly have an interest in info sci, but 4 months of waiting for a reply and a calc class i rather enjoyed, and there you go i started swaying towards math. I know that they dont want people getting into an easier college and then changing but at the same time they weed out the people that seem to have that intention which i didnt. They cant crucify me for finding new interests. Frankly if i was trying to get into engineering as an internal that would look rele bad because it would be obvious what I would be trying to pull, but CALS and CAS are fairly close in principle just that CALS is more science oriented and less broad. I dont think it would be completely uncalled for</p>
<p>@R324u: i hear ya. i don’t think it’s uncalled for to transfer, it just seems cornell is really picky about schools/majors. good luck :)</p>
<p>it wont happen, my friend tried it after a semester and they don’t allow it. if anything, you’d have to wait a year which is a waste of money…</p>
<p>I’d say it all depends on the circumstances. For GT’s its not like they applied that year and then tried to switch the next. Going from say ILR to PAM could possibly happen depending on the courses taken I would think. On the other hand going from ILR to Engineering is just not going to happen.</p>