<p>How do you think I fare with a 3.5 or higher to possibly around 3.7 by the end of the spring semester at CMU to transfer into Cornell for fall '05? Extracurricularly I will have done student EMS and some intramural sports (ping pong). My SATs were 1410 (740M 670V) when I applied as a high school senior. </p>
<p>I would transfer into Cornell's engineering school from CIT.</p>
<p>From what the people that have came to my high school have told me about cmu, a 3.5 is amazing, and extremely hard to get, if that really is the case, you probably have an extremely great chance of making it as a transfer student, btw why do you want to transfer?</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that a 3.5 from this school is necessarily amazing, but it is a rather good GPA. I do realize that CMU is very well respected, and your reply does reflect that fact very well. I just wonder whether the admins at Cornell have such a high opinion. To answer your question, Cornell had been my first choice school last year, and I made some serious mistakes in applying to it. I would like to, at the very least, prove to myself that I can gain admission into it. I suppose I cannot claim that Cornell is necessarily better than CMU, but I feel a personal attachment to the former. I do not have any negative reason to leave CMU - so do not let my intensions spoil your view of this school. I just suppose that I would feel more at home at Cornell, as it had been a long-time dream of mine to go there. </p>
<p>Does anyone happen to have any statistics showing the caliber of the transfer student that is accepted?</p>
<p>Hey ten20jj, you should come to transfer section. I'm a prospective transferee this year as well. I'm having a little trouble finding the link for transfer stats, but ill post later</p>
<p>Here it is
<a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/Transfers/transbycoll.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://dpb.cornell.edu/irp/pdf/FactBook/Admissions/Undergraduate/Transfers/transbycoll.pdf</a></p>
<p>Thanks for the info CNCL. 37.8% external transfer acceptances for male engineering students. Not too bad, I'd have to say. What do you think, after GPA, is the most important aspect of the application? I may have some trouble obtaining good recommendations, because the only professor I really know is my english one. Also, they don't happen to give the details of these transfer students (ex their GPA, university, etc), do they?</p>
<p>In my opinion and from what I've been told, I'd probably have to say ecs(researches), but I guess it really varies from person to person, say if you have a almost perfect gpa, than i guess maybe ecs won't matter as much as say when you have a 3.5. Also recommendations and essays are just as vital.</p>