chances of transferring?

wavedasher
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:45:00 +0000

^You both have some points. Cornell doesn’t want to do GTs. However, NY state mandates it, which is why only the contract colleges have it. It really doesn’t help Cornell at all. It keeps out qualified transfer applicants and lets in unqualified ones. I much rather have ppl like UVbaby who deserve the chance than hordes of kids from community college.

http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000472.pdf#zoom=100

It is also a big reason why Cornell’s contract college gets snubbed on - I mean come on, ILR is about 40% transfer (pg 12). That is pretty ridiculous.



OMG HAHAHA. I always joked that half of ILR were transfers but it’s actually true LOL. Thanks for that link; I’ll use it well.

Lazykid, the way I see it is that the state schools get tons of funding for research and other things from NYS every year, and so they’re “obligated” to thank the state by accepting subpar candidates from the state universities/community colleges in NYS that they have agreements with. That would explain why half the students seem to be from Long Island - diversity my a**. It’s sad how the more qualified transfers are getting the shaft cause of this. What’s sadder is that MIT is also a land grant institution and yet its admissions policies are so much different [better].