What are my chances for transferring to Cornell?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello, i was wondering if some of you can help me rate my chances of transferring to Cornell University.</p>

<p>Currently, i am a 19 year old student at a Community College! It is my second year and i am about to get my Associates in Arts degree in May of 2015. I decided to go to Community College because i had a rough time in High school (due to some very personal issues dealing with my mental status) so i did not really try my hardest until junior year. I ended up getting a 3.2 as my overall GPA (this was with taking 3 AP courses and two Honors courses)! After getting that GPA i decided to go to Community College to not only redeem myself but to gear me up for going to a university. (sorry for the story)</p>

<p>So far i am doing good at my College. I have a 3.5 GPA (thanks to two C's, all the rest of my grades are A's), i am currently taking 19 credits (4 A's, 3 B's), which I'm hoping to bring my GPA up to a 3.7-3.8 range! I have been schooling constantly since i first started back in 2014, i did not have a summer break (which kinda sucked ha). In the spring semester i will be taking 16 credits and I'm also retaking the ACT in January so i can have my scores back in time for the due date! Also, my school goes by the 7-point scale.</p>

<p>My classes include: Quantitative Literacy, Developmental Psychology, General Psychology, Spanish 1&2, Abnormal Psychology. Statistics 1, Intro to Sociology, Philosophical Issues, Biology 1 + Lab, American Literature, Western Civilization, Computers ect ect (this list includes classes i already registered for in the Spring, but have not taken)</p>

<p>I am part of three clubs in the college, although not top positions, i try to be active within the community. I am in the Student Government, Spanish club and the Phi Theta Kappa (not a club but national organization), and not sure if this counts, but i was in the national technical honor society in high school. I also would like to do the volunteer program at my school spring semester also!</p>

<p>I don't have much EC's because I'm not really a social person. I do a lot of drawing on my free time and i also have written a few screenplays but, that is about it!
This might not be a big thing, but i have successfully constructed an ethnomethodology project (complete with a video) about breaking social norms!</p>

<p>I'm hoping to get a Masters in Psychology so i can become a Psychotherapist. Cornell is my dream school, and i would love to go there because they have an amazing psychology program.</p>

<p>Other colleges i have looked into are Columbia, NYU, and Chapel Hill. Yale is also one of my dream schools, but that is far fetched! And i do have my safe schools not listed!</p>

<p>Also i am a first generation college student!</p>

<p>Please help me out,
Thank you</p>

<p>(Please excuse my grammar)</p>

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<p>advice would be amazing. thanks</p>

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<p>For Cornell, you’d need to apply to the CALS (COllege of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which also includes business).
<a href=“http://cals.cornell.edu/”>http://cals.cornell.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
Something like 90% transfers admitted are admitted to this college. And yes, you’d have a shot, but it’d be a reach. Only a handful get into CAS and these tend to have superlative records and be “lateral” transfers (ie., from another top school).
With a 3.5, you can try and apply to Barnard.
<a href=“http://barnard.edu/”>http://barnard.edu/&lt;/a&gt;
Your odds at Chapel Hill and Columbia are almost nonexistent.
Start researching SUNYs and other universities.
What’s your parents’ budget?
Is NYS your parents’ resident state?</p>

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<p>Im not applying with a 3.5 (heavens no), i intend to apply after this semester i am currently taking! I have researched SUNYs and other universities.
My parents don’t really have a budget, i am paying for most of my college education with the Post 9/11 GI bill (which only covers up to 45k of tuition and fees), when my GI bill runs out, ill have to pay either out of pocket or via FAFSA
Cornell is actually the only school i have really wanted to go to (i have tried to schedule my classes around their undergrad requirements to the best of my abilities). I have already done my research on all my schools i want to apply to. I currently have 6 (including Cornell and Chapel Hill)
NYS is not the residency of my parents. We reside in NC as of right now. Although, my mother used to be a resident of NYS (useless info but yeah)
And thank you for your feedback, i really appreciate it!!!</p>

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<p>It’s really hard to handicap admissions chances with transfers because there is no published matriculating transfers stats data to draw on.
IMO your best combination of admission chance and subject match would be with the human development major in The College of Human Ecology. Check it out.</p>

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<p>Like previously mentioned, it’s difficult to chance a transfer into a top school. I will say this: the vast, vast majority of transfers into the Ivy League are from other top tier schools. Very rarely are students accepted from a junior college. To be competitive to a top school from a community college, your GPA would have to be nearly flawless. (We’re talking one B). I’m sorry for being blunt, but your chances at Cornell, Colombia and Yale are zill in my opinion. UNC is very, very unlikely as well. </p>

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<p>"Very rarely are students accepted from a junior college. "</p>

<p>That’s not correct at Cornell, particularly for the"statutory’ colleges there. From what I’ve read I think that CC’s must be well represented at Columbia’s College of General Studies too. Though I may be mistaken about that.</p>

<p>“To be competitive to a top school from a community college, your GPA would have to be nearly flawless. (We’re talking one B)”</p>

<p>That seems reasonable to me too. But again. there is no data to back it up… So I have no real basis to tell somebody with a 3.7-3.8 not to apply.</p>

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<p>Based on discussions with college professors, I can tell you the general consensus is that the average junior college inflates grades by about a 1.0 (meaning a B at a junior college is likely a C at a 4 year university). Obviously, there is a wide variety of grading practices, and many colleges are harder or easier then the average. My point is that a 3.0 at a CC is more then likely a 2.0 at the Ivy league. This being said, I don’t think it’s worth the application charge and effort to apply to the Ivy League without excellent extra curriculurs, excellent grades and a well rounded application from a junior college. </p>