<p>exactly. for now i’ll grab a beer, play some nhl09 or some dota. it’s a saturday, enjoy :D</p>
<p>Lol u play dota too!!! I do also!!! lol… We are soo Cornell material !!! :)… I hope i see u on campus!</p>
<p>haha, likewise! </p>
<p>i am a pretty big nerd.</p>
<p>Oh, by the way, I made a mistake earlier. Sort of discouraging actually. They accept about 800 transfers a year…not 1600…I guess I wished it was 1600.</p>
<p>Yeah I was like 1600 is too much, they usually accept around 800 total. But each college is different and has their own admissions. So whatever college you apply to, hope we all get in to our desire college!</p>
<p>if i remember the admission stats that I found at one point, CAS accepts about 14% of transfers. numbers go up a tiny bit for me (being hispanic and a woman). </p>
<p>CALS takes a higher percentage of about 20%. </p>
<p>again, this is if memory serves.</p>
<p>Ilivefree 20% without the GT? Are you sure about that?? Its 45-46% with the Gt I believe</p>
<p>not sure about it, let me see if i can find the data sheet.</p>
<p>okay, i used the data sheets at the bottom of this page to calculate some things… the addition of the freshman totals plus trasnfer totals balances out to total apps, so i’m not sure which number includes the GT’s. the sheets for “contract totals” are listed under freshman heading, so i assume this may be the GT’s. this would mean that the transfer numbers are not inclusive of GT stats.</p>
<p>transfer acceptance rate: 27%
CAS transfer acceptance rate: 14%
male CAS transfer acceptance rate: 11%
female CAS transfer acceptance rate: 17%</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> Factbook - Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/F_Undergraduate_Admissions.htm]Cornell”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/F_Undergraduate_Admissions.htm)</p>
<p>They took 801 out of 2918 total applicants last year. </p>
<p>CAS as ilivefree stated was approx. 14%</p>
<p>CALS was 43.77%; right around what you said dragonneedspank.</p>
<p>It’s kind of discouraging (as a CAS applicant) that the generic transfer acceptance percentage is more than twice that of the acceptance percentage for CAS. </p>
<p>I know there are some really contested/popular majors in CAS (prolly like econ and bio); i think this question has been brought up before, but does your intended major factor into the admisisons. For the last school that I transferred into, they did it by major, not by college.</p>
<p>burtonboarder, i’m wondering that as well… my major is anthropology and i don’t think anyone on CC that applied as a transfer has said that’s their major. maybe that will help me?</p>
<p>Im not sure CAS does their transfer admission by major. I know CALS does. If CAS did do their transfer admission by major, I think you may have an advantage if there are fewer people applying for CAS as an anthro major.</p>
<p>In short - yes it matters. I’ve spoken to Columbia admission people about this. Think about it - it is clearly easier to strengthen the Cornell East Asian Dance program (or any other obscure major) than their Econ program. This doesn’t apply to me, since I applied to ILR because it suits my interests perfectly. However, I applied to other schools as a music major even thought I am planning to double major music/econ, since it’ll be easier for me to stand out and more of my ECs have to do with music.</p>
<p>In Cornell CAS, I’m guessing you really have to stand out if you are applying as an Econ/Bio/Pre-med or whatever popular major major. However, applying to an obscure major only works if you actually have an interest in it and some experience. Otherwise, they’ll see right through you.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, it’s important to remember that your major is by far not the first thing they look at. Some applicants may be at a slight advantage by applying under a slightly different major, but the admissions committee recognizes that majors are easily changed. Moreover, hundreds of math, bio, econ, computer science majors are accepted every year.</p>
<p>Hope that clears it up a little.</p>
<p>i’m gonna go ahead and say it… yay for me! :)</p>
<p>Yeah when i went to Transfer day, CALS said the first thing they look at is your esssays. They dont look at ur transcript until they finish your essay. And then they look at ur standardized test (if u submitted it) last.</p>
<p>Well-put Violaghost…I hope you are right. I am a Philosophy major btw (sorry ilivefree, i think I have you beat haha) and I will have five courses completed (three of which are upper-level) by the time I would step foot on Cornell’s campus in the Fall if admitted with approximately a 3.9 as of right now in my major. So, if you are right, I feel a little more confident, though not too much about getting in. What may be kinda weird to admissions is that I come from a top-30 school and a top-15 philosophy program which is even considered one of the best in the world in certain areas of philosophy. This could hurt me for the reason that they might be saying “Why does this kid want to transfer,” or it could help me for the obvious reason that I am at a good school with a very good program in my major. We’ll find out soon I guess.</p>
<p>Don’t you love the admissions game? Take a step back for a moment from all of our little questions.</p>
<p>From Cornell’s perspective, we are all business investments. I know, I know - Cornell is a heaven for learning and I would love to be there too, but Cornell is still a business. Their job is to choose the best of us, the people who will truly go forth and achieve sucess, better the University name and donate largely =) It’s so easy to get caught up, isn’t it? We are playing a game with them now, fiddling with every aspect of the application that we can, everything aside from the scores which are set in stone.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to shame anybody - I play the same game as we all do. It’s just curious to step back and see the big picture once in a while.</p>
<p>So I believe thsi would be week number 2 since most of our application said "Your materials have been received. Your application has been forwarded to the admissions staff for review. Please refer to the requirements for your college(s) to ensure you have sent all the required materials to us. "</p>
<p>haha the 2nd week? awww</p>