<p>I am in no way mocking or insuating anything negative about transfers at Cornell or any schoo for that matter. However, I seem to notice that Cornell has A LOT of transfers, approximately, 600 transfer students enroll anually. At other schools, this is not the case, and it is actually a lot harder to gain admission as a transfer. With Cornell, the acceptance rate at like CALS is like 50 percent as a transer. Also, what is the deal with Guaranteed Transfer, I mean for an ivy league university, and one that I am attending, I feel that this is just ridiculous to give out these guarantees to ppl that sometimes are just not qualified to be at a place like Cornell. From my own experiences, I know kids who have gotten these GTs and are attending community colleges or second tier schools not even in the top 50 and then they transfer to Cornell. No one even knows the difference when you graduate. Why should one work hard to gain admission to Cornell as a freshman when they can just be given a GT and arrive at Cornell the following year???</p>
<p>no one has an opinion, so i will BUMP</p>
<p>take a look at the transfer statistics. The highest acceptance rates are for the state funded schools. In order for Cornell to receive a good sum of money from the state, they have to accept a certain percentage of students from NY and a certain number of transfer students (and they have to admit some from community colleges). This is what one of the administrators there told me when i brought up a question similar to yours.</p>
<p>Just a quick question...are you actually in college yet, or a soon-to-be-frosh?</p>
<p>Anyway, the reason Cornell has a large transfer class is the same reason that it has a large entering freshmen class...that is, Cornell is large. Largest of the ivies, which is a phrase that's probably been beaten to death a few too many times here. But anyway, here's the deal with transferring:</p>
<p>It's a fairly well known fact that it's easier to get into a college by transferring then in freshman year, and that's because you're smarter. Yes, you are. When they base your admission on your high school career, the college is taking a gamble. As much as you're investing in them, they are investing in you. That said, the withdrawl rate during freshmen year is much higher then in any other year - it decreases and whatnot. So once you get through one or two years at another college, prove that you can get high marks and be involved and successful in a university setting, they are much more likely to place their bets on a "sure thing" - sure thing you'll stay in and do well at their college. It doesn't make transfers any less worthy or whatever, it's just a totally new playing field. I am not the same person I was when I applied as a senior. Thus the garenteed transfer - they show a lot of potential to do very well at Cornell, but there's also a decent chance that they will withdraw from the school - to transfer or whatever they choose. So they want to see you do well at another school before they admit you. It doesn't make them "not qualified". What you did in high school doesn't matter all that much when you get to college, so you really can't base how qualified a person is when they transfer on the fact that they didn't get in freshmen year. </p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much about whether or not transfers measure up to your standards, anyway. The truth of the matter is that the work is hard for everyone and you'll probably be too busy with your own show to worry about transfers, garenteed or otherwise. Sorry if this comes off snarky, I just felt I needed to get some facts straight because really....transfers are just as qualified as everyone else on campus. There's a lot of "us" because there are a lot of students, and all Cornellians will be working pretty hard together.</p>
<p>true ... Cornell may admit alot of transfers, but like the ILR admissions dead said durring my interview "we do have room for alot of transfers, but if we dont feel like you're ready for Cornell, you wont be admitted no matter how many spots we have."</p>
<p>another reason that guaranteed transfers may be coming from community colleges is that they want to save their money on their first year before going to cornell. it makes sense, why go to an expensive school for a year or two years if you know you're just going to leave? i know a few people who did that.</p>
<p>i wasn't a guaranteed transfer, but i went to a community college for one year to save money. It wasn't necessarily so i could afford cornell for the rest of my years, but so i could afford any college. Cornell just happened to be my top choice.</p>
<p>umm dude. Look up the transfer statistics for cornell. Not at all that high.</p>
<p>I mean of course the state funded schools have a higher acceptance rate, but that is only due to the fact that it's state funded. :) </p>
<p>Cornell's arts and science college, which is comparable to The college or penn or other arts and science branched at other universities, has an admission acceptance rate of roughly 14-17%. That'slower than some of the other ivies and top notch schools.</p>
<p>Another thing, which has been mentioned, is the fact that cornell is a big university.there's is just not one undergraduate college at cornell but several.</p>
<p>...seven...</p>