<p>Ok so i'm going to grad school at Penn State University and enrolled in their Human Resources and Employment Relations program. </p>
<p>Before accepting admission i also had acceptances from Rutgers and University of Rhode Island for their Industrial Labor Relations programs. </p>
<p>I also spoke to the people at Cornell's ILR school who said that due to my grades/scores if i took a class or two over the summer to show i could handle the material they would most likely be able to admit me. </p>
<p>So i'm into my second semester at Penn State. Last semester i had a 3.5 GPA and this semester will be that or possibly higher. </p>
<p>Is there a way to transfer from grad school to grad school? Also what would my chances be with say Cornell?</p>
<p>I would think that a transfer from one graduate school to another, especially in the same or similar major, would be highly unusual.</p>
<p>Graduate schools are very much about relationships with professors in your field of interest, as well as mastering a field of study. Courses are often a secondary part of the education.</p>
<p>But anything is possible. You’ll need references from your current professors. They may not be particularly enthusiastic about providing them. I doubt that reverting back to your undergraduate contacts would suffice.</p>
<p>And should you successfully transfer I expect you’ll find a need to “repeat” the first year – if only to establish the relationships that are critical.</p>
<p>So my advise, unless you absolutely hate it where you are, is to complete the “next” phase of the graduate program at Penn State. If your goals are a Masters degree, then the transfer won’t then be necessary. If your goals are a PhD, then applying to the PhD program as a Masters candidate makes sense.</p>
<p>Thank you for the insight. While i don’t hate the school i feel like some of the things that were advertised to me are not even close to being true. Also i thought having the name recognition would do more to help me get some decent internships. Don’t get me wrong i worked my butt off in undergrad doing 5 internships in the 4 years i was there and i’m involved with many different campus groups/ clubs now but with an Ivy league like Cornell they have an internship fair for that department alone, which is unreal. </p>
<p>Also the alumni help is not nearly what i was lead to believe. Part of this is certainly my fault for not looking into it more.</p>