californiachick

im a senior in high school and i was wondering if it was better transfer rate from ucla to cornell or smc to cornell?

xleper17

For cornell? Both rates, I imagine, are pretty low as you would be an out of state student. I suggest you do research on Cornell transfer and see if they accept transfers at all (some schools don't).

If you are really, really dead set on Cornell and your parents have some money to spare, I suggest you go to a community college near Cornell (within the same state) and THEN apply to transfer.

Transferring from SMC to NYU is harder than transferring from a CC near NYU (they have transfer programs), for example.

KGZotU

Are you sure about that? Cornell is a private university, so I don't think it has allegiance to in-state students.

This question might be good for the general transfer forum. I've been spending some time in there, and can offer a little advice. The answer to the your question depends on what you do during your next two years, and what major you're in.

For example, you have an opportunity to put together a much more impressive transfer application if you go to UCLA. You can take upper division courses, get started in research, impress professors and get great recommendations based on difficult coursework among excellent students, etc. Those are all possibilities, of course, things that you can possibly achieve.

You can put together a good application from SMC, but then--even if you're the number one student at SMC--you're just demonstrating that you're great at lower division coursework. Maybe you've got some ECs in there too, but ECs don't weigh as heavy for transfers in general. Though there are opportunities that you can pursue outside of SMC, I suppose.

The only thing that could hurt you if you apply from UCLA is if UCLA has an outstanding program in your major. Then you have a harder time convincing Cornell that you've got a good reason to transfer.

Hope this helps,
Joe

poppin3000

I'm pretty sure that Foothill College has some ties with Cornell. Might be something worth looking into.

mattn

If you go to UCLA, try to transfer and get rejected, you're still at UCLA. If you go to smc, you're ina community college and you're still playing the chances game to get into someplace you'd want to be.