Transfer?

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<p>I attend Cornell University, I was accepted as a freshman to NU, and I sadly turned it down. As a tranfer applicant, I am applying to NU, Columbia, and Penn and Duke.</p>

<p>It is actually a long story...i really wanted to attend....something happened, it had NOTHING to do with financial reasons, my parents are funding the entire thing and NU didn't seem to care about my situation.</p>

<p>the lady i spoke with said you can apply as a transfer, and my question was "does it help I was accepted already" her answer: we take a lot of effort in selecting students here and the fact you were accepted already means we wanted you hear, so it will help definetely. she said forget about NU for now and enjoy Cornell for now and think about NU.</p>

<p>so, what are my chances here as a transfer assuming all of this
hs: 1450 sat, 97 gpa, all honors/aps
varsity tennis captain, research, etc...clubs...</p>

<p>Research Scholar and Dean Scholar at Cornell, only 50 research scholars out of 3000 per grade</p>

<p>last year's NU transfer statistics
Transfer Students</p>

<pre><code>* Total number of transfer students who applied: 615
* Total number of transfer students who were admitted: 210
</code></pre>

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<p>I thought someone posted the admit stats for this year on CC and it's like 100 something out of 600+ applicants this year. Transfer rate can change a lot from one year to the next and I think it may depend largely on how full the freshmen class was the year before.</p>

<p>I think you are ahead of many others because you are trying to transfer from a peer institution instead of some lower-tier school. I'd say you are in pretty good shape unless you do poorly in your classes at Cornell.</p>

<p>You have been in Cornell for only a month or so. How did you come to the conclusion that Cornell isn't the right place for you? I am just curious.</p>