I am a accepted transfer into Cornell’s ILR School.I was wondering is it possible to control the amount of time you spend at Cornell? I’m interested in potentially going into IB or consulting and I will be entering Cornell as a “junior” (although I don’t know how my credits will transfer from my current school which is on the quarter system). What I’m worried about is that IB and consulting usually require a junior year internship, but I’d have literally no GPA to show to them this fall. So I was thinking that I use the next year to create a GPA and then apply in the fall of 2018?
Your question is really unclear. Just use your first semester at Cornell as your GPA and list your cother college’s gpa too. But btw, not having a junior year internship is going to hurt a LOT and just having a good GPA is not enough either. You’re going to need to go through a lot of networking and prep if you want to enter IB and consulting, considering how competitive it is. But back to your previous question, if you mean taking longer to graduate, I guess it’s possible but as said before, it may be slightly frowned upon by BB Banks if you don’t have a good reason.
In the end, consulting and ibanking is a very competitive field that recruits only the top of the top. What about your extra curriculars? Do you have anything extraordinary? Not having a junior year internship already puts you behind the pack of 98% of the rest of the students looking to pursue these fields a Cornell.
@llegeAcceptanc I’m fully aware of the competitiveness of both fields, I’m been researching them since my high school days, so I’m no stranger to what makes an application competitive. Yes I have plenty of extracurriculars at my current university (otherwise I’d have not been able to get into Cornell). I don’t know about “extraordinary” but I have a couple leadership positions.
Of course, I want a junior internship, I wasn’t gonna try to land an IB or consulting job without one (I know that’s near impossible). What’s setting me back is how strict the firms are gonna take the word “junior”. In fact, why do they even care what year the student is? I understand why they don’t accept freshman or seniors because one is just in their first year and the other is in the last, but I would have thought that as long as you get an internship in the summer before your final year, you would be good to go? I’d rather set up more of a resume at Cornell with GPA and extracurriculars to show them after a year there so that they would have more to look at. I want them focusing more on Cornell than my current university.
@Mastodon97 I would recommend going on WSO and ask what others think about. But personally, you’ll be spending an extra year of tuitition. If you try to "extend’ your years at Cornell, unless you take a gap year doing an internship or something, it’ll definitely raise eyebrows. What would you be doing during the year you are trying to make your years at Cornell longer? Taking BS credits or having less credits as a part time student? They’ll definitely ask about that and I’m not sure how they’ll think.
Also, the reason why they are strict with the word “junior” is important is because they want to hire interns before the summer to see how they work and then hire them for a fulltime offer. This is why they don’t give as many opportunities to sophomores and freshman. Do you not have an internship coming up for this summer before transferring?
@llegeAcceptanc Yeah I’m using WSO right now for that. The thing is that I’m actually kind of sure that I’m going to HAVE to spend more than 2 years because of how my credits will transfer (but in my case thats a good thing). And no I don’t have an internship set up, don’t you apply for summer internships in the fall/winter of your junior year?
@mastodon97 You can apply anytime for internshis. I know people who had internships before they were freshman in college. The high Ibank and consulting internships that are really competitive sort of expeect that you had some sort of work experience, be it even in a an unrelated field at least during your sophomore year. It is possible but it’ll be very difficult trying to make yourself stand out without enough work experience
@llegeAcceptanc Oh, I thought you were talking about ib/consulting internships, yes I have some general internships, and I’m trying to get one for this summer.