chances of transferring?

majoreco
Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:24:32 +0000

@ Colene

Cornell has stated again and again and again that GTs are meant fill the void that is the loss of students during the sophomore year.

Exhibit A: Cornell predicted that the 2009 transfer rate would be ~4%
(the link below shows that prediction being fairly accurate)
http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000179.pdf
Exhibit B: Cornell gave out 1500 GTs (out of 34,000, coming out to ~4%. Convenient, eh).
http://cornellsun.com/node/47240

Not to mention that Cornell has said before that GTs are students who would have gotten in regularly as a freshman anyway. Cornell has an over enrollment problem so it makes sense that they would defer their admission (ala, a GT). The amount of out of state CCs and 4 years (non-GT) admitted is negligible.

Even if you take out all GTs (which don’t even affect the selectivity) the regular transfer rate would simply increase with non-GTs. Cornell is the largest top 20 school after all.

Hell, the last Rhodes Scholar Cornell has produced was an ILR GT.
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