<p>Thanks for the link. I agree that those transfer rates are problematic, and I can understand why some may take issue. Still, I believe that the high number of GT acceptances (from the RD pool) is what greatly inflates these stats. In other words, they are not as excessive as they may appear without understanding the nature of granting GTs, and how these GTs substantially skew the figures. Still, you’ve convinced me that the convoluted manner in which the contract colleges handle transfers should be refashioned. The odds of policy revision happening in the near-term may not be that great, however, due to tacit political realities in regard to continued partial state funding to the contract colleges.</p>
<p>Which is why they should take away GTs - what I was arguing all along. There really aren’t many offered at the endowed colleges.</p>
<p>Surprising that only approx. 10% of Cornell’s transfers come from NY State CC’s </p>
<p><a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000457.pdf#zoom=100[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000457.pdf#zoom=100</a></p>
<p>That’s the “institution last attended” - it doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s an equal ratio of students: school. It’s pretty likely that there was more than 1 student getting in from every school in NY.</p>
<p>Colene, I’m not following you…57 of the 547 transfers last attended a 2 year college in NYS, which is approx. 10%… am I not reading this correctly?</p>
<p>People who go out of their way to assert their school’s superiority and bash other schools and their students are, simply put, insecure and narrow-minded. That sort of rhetoric has the antithetical effect of making them and their schools look desperate. It oft stems from a revolting, elitist mentality.</p>
<p>I will probably never step foot on Cornell, but it’s a great school for many.</p>
<p>Well I don’t know what’s going on but all I’ve said is that we could change their admissions methods and that’s what everyone has been going on about. The contract colleges are amazing as we said, so we’re not really bashing the school, we’re just saying that if they take cc students at least have a “metric” of comparison to make it fair. Right now a lot of cc transfers get in to the contracts because of the lack of that metric.
@CS - I misread the post, but those statistics are for the entire cornell university, not just for the contracts - it’s probably disproportionated by the endowed transfers (out of staters and 4 years).</p>