<p>Can someone please explain this program? And how do you apply?</p>
<p>It’s not a program that you apply to specifically. It just means that when you apply to be a first year student, Cornell thinks you are a qualified applicant, but they just don’t have enough room to take you. They’ll give you either a second semester GT (transfer after one semester) or a second year GT (transfer after one year).</p>
<p>^^^ Yep. To add to this, they require that you take a certain set of courses, and you MUST get at least a B in every course. For me, that meant Bio 1 and 2 with Bio 1 and 2 Labs, Biostatistics, Sociology, and two semesters of Advanced Composition. Also, you have to make sure that you are taking 30 credits total.</p>
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<p>Never heard of this requirement.</p>
<p>The requirements are, Bio 1 and 2 with labs, Chem 1 and 2 with labs, Calculus 2 semesters, two semesters of Academic Writing, minimum of B in all courses, GPA of 3.0 or 3.5+ depending on major. (I think these are the CALS GT requirements.)</p>
<p>^^ It’s different depending on what your major is. My GT is Cals; communication. I didnt have to take Calc.</p>
<p>reqs. are different. i had bio 1 and 2, calc 1, and composition 2 semesters. B’s in all and a 3.0 gpa</p>
<p>It is not true that you have to take 30 credits total. I took 13 credits one semester, 14 the other, and transferred in with 27. :)</p>
<p>Really? When did you transfer? When I spoke with Kathleen (the transfer director) she said it had to be 30…</p>
<p>can you get one if you are a bio/biochem major?</p>
<p>yup, I did (bio major)… the only thing is, you need a 3.5.</p>
<p>I think only two schools actually give out GT’s though, with one of them being CALS and the other being I think IRL?? I can’t remember. Im only positive about CALS since I got one for them. And yeah, watch out if you do bio, they have a higher GPA requirement than any of the others do. I’m in for animal science, so my requirements were Bio 1&2 with lab, Chem 1&2 with lab, 2 english courses (or 1 comp and 1 speech), and Statistics. And as someone else said, you need B’s or higher in all your required courses, and then a 3.0 overall (unless you’re a bio major in which case its 3.5). And this year in the requirements it does say that you need to be a full time student with 15 credits per semester. I suppose you could bypass a few credits if you manage to test out of some of your courses, but other than that I doubt you can transfer in with less than 30 for a GT. It may have been less in previous years, but unless you’re a special circumstance its definitely 30 now :)</p>
<p>Anywho… I wouldn’t worry too much about a GT. Although you may have jinxed yourself because last year I put up a thread asking about what a GT was and people were like don’t worry about it not too many people end up with one, and then I actually got one haha.</p>
<p>I was a GT and, while I can’t prove this, there was a disproportionately large number of:</p>
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<li> Smart students from very financially humble backgrounds (the school probably wanted them as alumni, but didn’t want to carry them financially for four years).</li>
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<li> Average students who were offspring of wealthy tycoons of global industry (the school probably wanted them as alumni, but was worried they wouldn’t survive 4 years academically).</li>
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<p>Again - I can’t prove that. Just a surprisingly high concentration of both those groups. Supposedly admissions is need-blind, but there’s nothing to say a student couldn’t be admitted need-blind and then admissions decide their fate based on finances who gets admitted freshman year, sophomore year, or junior year.</p>
<p>So - there’s a lot of factors that go into GT. Nothing you can do about it. Just apply.</p>
<p>Yeah there really are a lot of factors that go into it. I also thought that the fact that I had applied ED and been deferred may have been part of the reason why I was GT’ed instead of waitlisted. I kept stressing how it was my dream to go there, and so perhaps part of the reason they gave it to me was because they thought I might actually go through with it? But I have no idea. Just pray for an acceptance, and if not that, then pray for a GT because I think being stuck in the waitlist limbo is much worse. Unless you get in off the waitlist, in which case its better than a GT :P</p>
<p>Just to play devil’s advocate - it’s not necessarily better to be admitted freshman year.</p>
<p>I found a lot of GT’s had accrued experience beyond the Cornell bubble and there was a worldliness about them and an ability to appreciate what Cornell offers but not have their sense of self wrapped up in a school. </p>
<p>Just something to consider.</p>
<p>^^^2nd this. At this point, I feel like experiencing two different college campuses is sort of to my advantage. Between where I am at now and Ithaca is a WORLD of difference. Also, I feel like the course work I had to fulfill for my GT reqs will actually pan out to be a lot harder than what I will be taking at Cornell (well…hopefully!) I feel like their requirements for GT really pushed us to see whether or not we could handle the academic rigor of Cornell, kwim?</p>
<p>Though, I can’t say I’m from either one of applejack’s categories above. I am a legacy though, so that could be part of it.</p>
<p>Thats true ^^ third on you two guys.</p>
<p>Personally I’m glad I got the chance to spend a year elsewhere. It might be a bit of a transition to Cornells workload, but it’s nice to get a year to get adjusted and to start getting used to College, as well as getting to start off with a probably much higher GPA cushion that I would have had if I’d started off at Cornell. Plus it will be interesting to see how Cornell compares and differs in some aspects. </p>
<p>And yeah, i forgot to mention, I don’t fit into either of those categories either :P</p>
<p>I agree with the two opinions above, but I also don’t fall into one of those categories.</p>
<p>For the record - I didn’t say ALL GT’s fit into those two categories. I just said that I noticed a larger proportion of the GT population fit into them than what I noticed in the overall population of the university. </p>
<p>There were many that did not fit either.</p>
<p>do any of you guys know, how long does it take for admissions committee to make their decision, if you actually fufilled all the ILR GT requirements?</p>
<p>ugh wish I knew. I’m a CALS gt and it feels like they should be able to grant us acceptance right away!</p>