Transfering Questions...

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<p>I have a few questions about transfering to Cornell, any help is appreciated.</p>

<p>First:</p>

<p>I go to Hofstra and after my first semester I have a 3.84, so far I'm on my way to keep my GPA above 3.8. I'm an accounting major and have mostly taken distribution courses and this semester 2 business prereqs (american politics and a computer class), but now I'm going back to what I originally wanted to do: psychology. </p>

<p>I have yet to take any psych classes, but looking to take 3-4 of them next semester and more the spring semester, hopefully keeping up my GPA. I'd be applying next year for my junior year at Cornell, what are my chances?</p>

<p>HS I didn't do too well because I didn't do work or try, 87 unweighted average, 1180 SATs. I've matured a lot and have been determined and taking a lot of pride in my hard work. So far the only ECs in college I've done are a musical last semester, which was 24 hours a week (4 hours, 6 days). This semester I'm not doing any EC's because I needed to take a step back, last semester killed me. I'll be joining clubs next semester for sure though.</p>

<p>So do I have a chance with a 3.8+ GPA and some EC's? I don't know what else to do or if highschool will weigh me down.</p>

<p>Second:</p>

<p>I took 17 credits last semester and this semester, which is 34. I was planning on taking 34 again sophmore year, but that would be 68 credits - which passes the 60 credit limit. Should I just take 13 credits for my sophmore semesters to even out 60? Or what should I do?</p>

<p>Also, does the fact that I'm just going to be taking a lot of psych classes sophmore year to make up for taking none freshmen year matter? I really didn't know what to major in when I got here at Hofstra, was deciding between business (accounting or finance) and psychology. I decided to go with what my passion was finally, so psychology it is. </p>

<p>Any help is really appreciated, I just need a bit of guidance. I posted more about why I want to leave Hofstra on the transfer boards, but I think some of you might be knowledgable (or so I hope).</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for those kind enough to help.</p>

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<p>I can't really answer anything in your second set of questions but as far as your first, here's one thing. If you're applying to transfer in as a junior then your hs grades and performance will matter a lot less.</p>

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<p>That's good then, because my unweighted 87 isn't great and my SATs suck too. Eh, that's what I get for caring less about school, if only I had the attitude I have now back when I was in HS...</p>

<p>Anyway, what would Cornell look for?? I will keep trying my best here, but 3.8+ is the best I'll do, so hopefully I will have a decent chance with that GPA.</p>

<p>I am curious though, how much does the school I'm going to matter (Hofstra)?? How about all the classes I'm taking? I'm jamming in those psych classes next semester, so hopefully that'll help, but my other classes were general ones for different cores. Like I took History of Jazz, Two Philosophy courses, American Politics, etc... nothing to do with psychology lol. At least next semester I'll be doing those, some which seem really interesting.</p>

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<p>transfering as a junior will cover up alot of your HS.</p>

<p>also, dont count on cornell taking all of your credits. I entered with over 70 credits from my other college yet Cornell only took 58 of them.</p>

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<p>Alright, that's good to know, I'll just take more credits and hope for the best.</p>

<p>I guess even if more than 60 of my credits could transfer I could kind of just throw some of the credits away. It's not like I'd even be paying more money to take these extra credits next year anyway, since max is 17.</p>

<p>I guess we'll just have to see.</p>

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<p>You should do some community service. A friend who is involved with another college told me that they will only take a transfer if they have some community service. I don't know if this is true for Cornell but it certainly can't hurt.</p>

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<p>Yea, it probably wouldn't hurt. I did community service in highschool - I needed 25 hours to graduate. I help gymnastics to little kids for like 9 hours one day, it was all these sessions in a row. I spent all day helping my friend for his eagle scout project (was about 10 hours), we had to shovel a huge pile of gravel and put it across a parking lot (such a pain) and clean up a launch spot for kayaking. My remaining community service was being a vendor at some elementary school dances. I also helped my town get a skatepark put up and helped design it as well (talked to the guy who designed it a few times and gave him sample designs and changes, etc).</p>

<p>I guess I could try doing something over this summer, dunno what though. But, I was planning on taking a course over the summer (intro to psych) and be in a community theatre musical (did it last summer and had a great time).</p>

<p>Also can anyone take a stab at whether or not these courses would transfer:
(most are just general cores I took to different areas)</p>

<p>Intro to Philosophy
Ethics
American Politics
English 1
English 2
Astrobiology
History of Jazz
Acting (forget the name of it, it was pretty general and the only interesting choice for my creative participation requirement)
Introduction to Computers - Business (business prereq)
Some Business Math (business prereq)
(won't bother naming this university class I needed to take)</p>

<p>I'm taking Intro to Psychology over the summer and then:</p>

<p>Psych and Law
Psych of Personality
Psych Statistics (hopefully, going to try to get by this math req I need, or maybe take simultaneously)
I'll probably take a literature course and another english or philosophy course maybe</p>

<p>I'm not sure if these classes will or won't transfer over, but I checked the Cornell Courses and all the ones I checked were there. The only courses that I didn't check to find were the acting class, computer class and the math (10 credits). So if they did accept me then I'd assume if they teach the same/similar courses there that they'd hopefully accept the credits from Hofstra. Anyone know?</p>

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<p>nobody can tell you if your courses will tranfser even if they're listed under the course description book. Cornell will decide if they do or not. You will likely have to send your course description book and possibly some of your course syllabuses or text books in order for them to decide if they'll take them or not. I've had seemingly identical courses not transfer.</p>

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<p>^Ah thank you.</p>

<p>Well, guess I can only cross my fingers for transfering credits to Cornell or wherever else. I also just need to cross my fingers for just simply getting in.</p>

<p>Thanks for all the help given, it's appreciated.</p>

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<p>To which college are you applying? CAS? The acceptance rate for that particular college is very low compared to the other colleges (<10%). Not only would you have to have a high gpa, you also need a rigorous course load and good ECs. If I were you, I'd try to take more credits while trying to maintain a consistently high gpa.</p>

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<p>sorry to just put the previous post into question form, but transfer admissions into CAS is really under 10%????</p>

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<p>nvm</p>

<p>Last year's CAS acceptance rate for external transfers was 17-18%</p>

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