<p>I am so excited right now . . went to check the mail after school, and there was a thin envelope from Cornell :P Opened it up . GUARANTEED TRANSFER! HELL YES! I'll probably attend the University of Michigan this year.
CONGRATS everyone who got a gt too! See you in Fall '07!</p>
<p>Congrats to you!
I still don't understand how you get one of these though. Is it off the waitlist, or what?</p>
<p>w0000000t!!!! CONGRATULATIONS</p>
<p>Yah, does anyone know the answer to SineWave's question? Are the GT's taken from the waitlist?</p>
<p>I'm still on the ILR waitlist, no word at all yet...</p>
<p>guaranteed transfer has nothing to do with waitlist. It's a whole list of its own.</p>
<p>Seems like IRL is the only college to give it out too.</p>
<p>No various colleges give GT options. Some people get GT from regular decision and some people get it from the waitlist. Since only 40-50 people do use gt each year for ILR the number can't be too too high. </p>
<p>But anyways you reminded me of myself when I found out. I seriously cried of happiness. I love life hahaha (Luckily I found out online the night before. If I had come home to that big envelope thinking it was an acceptance I would have gone insane hah).</p>
<p>LOL When I opened my mailbox . .. there was a big fat acceptance package . .. from the University of Toronto</p>
<p>Anyways, I got GT from CAS, which usually never offers it I think. All the colleges offer it</p>
<p>Nope, just a few do...</p>
<p>Can somebody explain this to me? I've never heard of such a thing at any college.</p>
<p>Obviously with a school like Cornell not all qualified students who apply can enter as freshmen. Also, because Cornell is bigger than most private colleges, it has many students who transfer in and out.
So, Cornell gives some students who got waitlisted off the frenshmen applicant pool the guaranteed transfer option, meaning that as long as they keep a decent GPA at whatever university they spend their freshmen year in, they can transfer to Cornell automatically the next year if they wish to do so. Thus, those students for whom Cornell was their first-choice school but missed out can enter Cornell without having to go through the transfer application process, and Cornell locates students early on to fill the spaces left by those who transfer out.</p>
<p>Thank you for the explanation.</p>
<p>an example is me</p>
<p>transfering out for various reasons, someone in CAS can gave a GT to fill my vacancy as an example</p>
<p>I wonder if I could get a GT to engineering if I was accepted. Cornell is just too expensive to finance on my own for four years. But saving $30,000 and attending Michigan for a year would have a huge appeal to me. Hell, I guess if I had guaranteed to Cornell, I would probably end up attending one of the local state universities where I could probably go for free.</p>
<p>I'm 99% sure Engineering doesn't have GT :( sorry. But anyways you never know what Cornell could give u! 100% need met! You could always defer them for a year if worst comes to worst. </p>
<p>I am doing the cheap thing for my 1st year. I am attending Stonehill College (not a bad school, but it wouldn't exactly be where I went if I wasn't going to Cornell). The tuition is originally $27,000 but I will only be paying $955 :). But then room and board and such are 10k added on after tuition which puts a damper on this hahaha.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I wasn't really clear in my last post. I was accepted for the College of Engineering Class of 2010.</p>
<p>I didn't qualify for any aid. My parents decided to only help me to a certain point. That point ended up fully funding four years at the University of Michigan (or about two years at Cornell).</p>
<p>I figure this year maybe I will be able to save up some money and make it possible to transfer in a year or two. I wanted to matriculate very badly, but I couldn't justify possibly $100,000 in loans to do it. I figure if I work hard at Michigan, I already got in once, so I can do it again. My only obstacle is that I will be in LSA (liberal arts) at Michigan after applying to Cornell for Engineering. But I suppose it can't be that big a deal as freshman year will have a lot of basic intro classes.</p>
<p>dsmo, from my experience, if ur accepted somewhere, they generally take you back, i got in everywhere as a transfer, as i did as a freshman....i think it def helps..when they look at ur file, and see, o, freshman admit..</p>
<p>Yes I remember getting mailed something that said that if I ever decide to transfer they save your file. </p>
<p>GL with the whole situation! Just take some elective courses in engineering stuff.</p>
<p>I think they save your application for 3 years. Everything is electronic now so it's not like they have to keep stacks and stacks of boxes of paperwork.</p>