Transferring from UMich to Cornell Human Ecology

I am a high school student and I am committing to attend UMich LSA for Fall 2015. However, I received a letter from Cornell HumEc that guarantees that if I maintain a 3.3 GPA in first year of college, I will be to transfer into Cornell. This option is only offered to 97 students this year who have applied to HumEc…should I do it?

If ,at the time that you must apply for GT transfer, you decide that Hum Ec has the perfect program of studies for you, including the perfect major and the perfect other in-college course requirements that you would relish fulfilling more than the curriculum anyplace else, and LSA doesn’t, then this is an option that is available to you. At that time.

Till then, your first “job” is to dive in to LSA with all your enthusiasm.
Going into someplace half-heartedly, unenthusiastically, with one foot already out the door is not a healthy way to start college IMO.

If I were you I would presume that, after a year, I will likely not be interested in exercising the GT option. Then see how it goes your first year. The option is there if you want it. but you probably won’t.

The exception to above is if the Hum Ec curriculum/major was specifically selected by you as top choice, you know already it is perfect for you, and it is not readily replicable at LSA. Under those circumstances one might choose to “go through the motions” first year, with the GT at the forefront of one’s mind. But only then. Some people do do that.

Okay yeah. I am not sure about Human Ecology. LSA is more like the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell, so there’s definitely more options at UMich.

Also, my mother is coming with me, not to the campus but near it. Ann Arbor is a more realistic place to live and find a job, especially for the Chinese, right?

I’ve no idea.

:confused: Okay.