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Cornell Fall 2017 Transfer
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I recently changed my major, and I'm currently a freshman. I will talk about my major shift in my supplementary essay. About me:
Caucasian Female from New York
Currently attending Stevens Institute of Technology
Major: Biomedical Engineering/ Computer Science
GPA: 3.92 Dean's List
College EC: Several clubs including Habitat for Humanity, Biomedical Engineering Society, Korean Student Association, and Women in Computer Science. Also was invited and attended a three day launchpad program aiding students in creating startup companies. I also created a calculator app! (I self taught myself several programming languages including C, Java, and Swift. College Programming taught me C++)
High School GPA: ~4.0 (weighted)
High School EC: Varsity Volleyball all four years (captain senior year), heavily involved in NHS, in school ensemble all four years, volunteered every week for Autism Awareness club, head writer for school musical for 2 years, audio board operator for school events for 2 years, secretary of a medical club and co-president for an international relations club one year. (and varsity basketball freshman year but I quit) Also played volleyball for a club team outside of school.
Work Experience: In high school I worked for the Career Development Center and advertised and published articles about opportunities given to students from the school (unpaid). This summer I also worked at a charter school and tutored children in 7th and 8th grade level math
Volunteer Experience: (mentioned Habitat for Humanity), A LOT with NHS and Autism Awareness Club, many events in my high school, also was as an assistant teacher for special education children for a summer (taught them about technology), volunteered at local library
Awards: Two all-star awards for volleyball, a scholar athlete award (I was on TV!), AP Honor Awards, Burger King Scholar, high school awards for good performance in gym and AP Calc AB.
SAT: 2120 composite (M 720, R 670, W 730)
AP Tests: World History 4, US History 4, Language and Comp 4, Macro 4, Psychology 5, Calc AB 5
College Rec: asked my english professor and I'm hoping it's good because I think she liked me and I participated often!
I really do love Cornell and I hope to show that in my essays! It's an absolute dream to make this university. Best of luck to everyone else applying!
I'm still setting things in stone with my 2nd semester at my own CC, but so far I have a 4.0 under an intense fully stacked course-load, with a 31C on the ACT. Once I have my "midterm" grades for the courses I'm currently taking, I'll be able to better gauge if I have a shot at Cornell or not.
Best of luck to all of us!
Highschool GPA: 2.3
Highschool Ec's: Model UN & Peer Counseling
Current GPA: 3.9 (Honors student)
EC's: Yale SMDEP 6-week intensive medical school prep program (Summer Medical and Dental Education Program), Have been an Undergraduate Research Assistant in a research lab at Yale for a school year, Yale Bio-MedSurf (summer undergraduate research fellowship) , Math Club Secretary, Env club treasurer, and student government. Have attended many academic conferences and seminars. Tutoring/mentoring/peer counseling.
Awards: "WHO's who among American students in colleges and universities" or whatever
Diversity: Gay, first generation, and economically disadvantaged. I have a youtube video on hacking Pokemon I made when I was 11 and it has 30,501 views. I accidentally hybridized a cucumber once, creating a GINORMOUS cucumber-pumpkin hybrid with pics to prove!
Future plans - Medical school to pursue a career as a physician-scientist, researching microbial pathogenesis and treating patients.
SAT's: 1190 total, 590 reading/writing, 600 math
Reasons for transferring: I have some strong reasons to transfer specifically to Cornell.
Best of luck to all!
@trynamakecollege , @mjr2013, I think you guys both are competitive af.
I have never gone through the whole transfer admissions process, but having done some pretty competitive summer programs/mentored a ton, I have some general advice.
Quality, and not quantity. Extra curricular's should reflect your future goals, and you should indicate a very deep passion for what you are doing. Be able to articulate why you're doing what you're doing, how you plan to do it and the institution's role in making that happen. What you bring to the table in sense of things you've learned from either life experiences (challenges->resilience->motivation), or skills and be able to exemplify preferably with anecdotes. Remember that the essay in itself is a piece of writing and should show off how damn good of a writer you are. Paint a pretty, and positive picture about who you are, why you are, and what you are made of - think back to those really defining moments in your life. Everything you write about should intertwine with each other to tell a story and relate to those amazing and revolutionary goals you have in life.
Good post though
Personally, Cornell is my top, and then Yale.
Expecting acceptances from: Yale, Amherst, Wesleyan, Boston College. My professors at Yale want me to apply to Duke and Vanderbilt, but i'm already drained cuz i've been writing essays for months now.
I do plan on continuing to grad school. Med school mayyyybe.
Thanks haha, reality can be a bitch sometimes
Cornell human ecology has the highest acceptance rate.
I'm seeing a lot of people here wanting to go to med school, this is the perfect fit.
Currently a freshman at De anza community College.
CC gpa: 4.00, (23 quarter units completed)
Recc letter from english prof.
HS gpa: 2.6
SAT:1780
EC: Event coordinator for environmental club
Worked as a host at the counter restaraunt
Lead lessons in web design at my schools coding club.
I was wondering what my chances were, any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Male - lower middle class
looking to transfer as CS in either Engineering or Arts and Sciences (I don't know which, advice?)
Currently Computer Science freshman at RPI (top 30 tech school)
GPA: 3.33*
HS GPA: 4.20/4 (probably 3.6-3.8 unweighted)
SAT: 800 reading, 760 math, 700 writing
APs:
5
Calc BC, Chem, CS, Stat, Bio, Psych, Econ (both), Spanish
4
US gov't, Language and Composition, Physics I
3
US History
First semester classes: Multivar, DiffEq, CS 2, Cell Biology, Elective
ECs:
College: Chamber music ensemble, Fraternity, CS club, Big Brothers Big Sisters (joining soon), Alpha Phi Omega (Service fraternity), tutor for CS (officially) and lots of other stuff (unofficially), maybe one other soon (Ballroom)
HS: Model UN (delegation coleader), Board game club (president and founder), FIRST Robotics (Programming team lead), TA for AP Computer Science, tutoring
Explanation for GPA: I got a C+ in Differential equations. All my other classes are B+ or better, with an A in my only Computer Science class (considered one of the hardest classes in the school).
I decided to apply just a couple days ago and I'm still not sure who I'm going to ask for a letter of recommendation. I know I can get a good one from a high school teacher, but I don't know if any professors are close enough to me to write a good letter of rec.
I'm also looking at UT Austin. They have a really high average transfer GPA (3.66) but they get a lot of transfers from other UT schools, so I'm not sure how competitive I am.