<p>Which of the Cornell colleges accepts the most transfer students?</p>
<p>I’m looking to transfer to Cornell after my freshman year…which classes should i take? btw I’m looking to major in Bio/Pre-med</p>
<p>i have a funny feeling you might get a lot of hate for this post but…</p>
<p>seriously, just apply to the college that best fits you& your interests, b/c that will be the place that will give you the highest chance of admission.
perhaps you should apply to arts& sci, or cals if you’re bio/pre-med.</p>
<p>Cornell accepts a lot of transfer students in general…one of the few things I dislike about Cornell. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for transfers and am friends with a few, but if half the people I meet when I walk around campus turn out to be transfers, then you know there’s a problem. I’m not the only one who thinks this. A lot of the faculty that I talked to also think that Cornell’s transfer process should get more selective.</p>
<p>For acceptance rate: <a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000156.pdf</a></p>
<p>^^looking at that amazes me…Some of the contract colleges have close to a 50% acceptance rate…that really makes no sense to me. Cornell’s transfer acceptance rate is higher than its freshman acceptance rate.</p>
<p>The process definitely needs to get more selective.</p>
<p>it IS still selective. those numbers and the reason you think that there are a ton of transfers if because of the number of GT/TOs they give out. internal transfers are also counted in there, though that wouldn’t explain the amount of transfers on campus.</p>
<p>Overall acceptance rate is 22.5% for external trandsfers…not that far off the 18% for freshman last year.</p>
<p>Overall acceptance rate is artificially lowered by Arts and Sciences: 108/1155 and Engineering: 22/336.</p>
<p>Take out those two and your rate is probably in the mid-30s, at least.</p>
<p>EDIT: I just calculated it. Removing arts and sciences, engineering, and assuming you choose a school to apply to, the acceptance rate is 37%</p>
<p>dude, I am kind of sick of the amount of transfers here too. but honestly, we don’t want you here if you want the easiest way to get into Cornell.</p>
<p>This might be useful too:<a href=“http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000438.pdf[/url]”>http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000438.pdf</a></p>
<p>external transfers include GT/TOs, which there are a buttload of</p>
<p>down with transfers!</p>
<p>ironicallyunsure</p>
<p>I highly doubt that internal transfers are included in that statistic. Otherwise, the acceptance rate for transfers for A&S and other colleges would be much higher.</p>
<p>CornellPerson and RileyJohn, are you all serious? What awful things to say. The majority of transfers are not at Cornell because they wanted “the easiest way to get into Cornell,” they are there because Cornell was their number one choice, they were rejected and offered a GT or TO, and chose to fulfill those requirements in order to end up at the school they felt they belonged at. The OP’s query about the easiest school to get into as a transfer is not at all representative of the mentality of transfer students I have encountered, and I would discourage you all (ESPECIALLY you new freshmen who have not yet even MET any transfer students) from making preconceived and misguided judgments about the motivations of those entering Cornell as transfer students. I hope I never run into any of you on campus–you seem like horrible, close-minded people.</p>
<p>^ I agree. Transfers, by definition, would have experienced life at another campus during their undergrad years. Do we non-transfer Cornellians get to say we’ve done that?</p>
<p>As some of the posts alluded to, those transfer numbers include those who are offered guaranteed transfer (GT) options and, so, must be taken with a grain of salt. For ILR alone, in fact, I believe that most of its transfer students are GT–i.e. students who would have otherwise been accepted for freshman year admission if there was available housing. That said, the transfer students I’ve met at Cornell are just as capable and smart as those Cornell students admitted as freshmen.</p>
<p>i remember asking about the published rates from representatives from CAS and CHE when i was visiting and trying to decide between HD and psych… they told me it does include internals and GTs. just my side.</p>
<p>back when I was a student and working in admissions, the GT’s were included in those numbers. they give you an accurate number of students transfering in, but they inflate the admit rate since the GT’s counted as both an applicant and an admit. </p>
<p>Most transfer students you’ll meet in a school like ILR did have a GT. If all 100-something enrolling ILR transfers mentioned on that document did NOT have a GT - you can imagine the sheer size of the incoming transfer class, it would be enormous and far greater than ILR could accomodate.</p>
<p>Ironicallyunsure</p>
<p>Not trying to say you’re wrong, cause I don’t really know either, but places like A&S get around a 100 internal transfer apps every semester and admit around 90+ of them.
According to the statistics, that means since they accepted about a 100 transfers, that would mean only 10 from other universities would’ve been accepted, which doesn’t make much sense.</p>
<p>If you’re wondering how I know this, I was thinking about internal transferring to A&S at one point and asked the advisor.</p>
<p>^ only ten from other universities probably does make sense. Out of all the transfers I’ve spoken with online, only ONE got into A&S.</p>