chances of transferring?

LazyKid
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:56:39 +0000

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].



Yeah, this really sucks and is really disappointing. I was hopeful that if the leadership in Cornell admissions changes, we might see dramatic reforms in admissions regarding transfers in future. However, if Cornell contract schools are actually required by NY State to accept tons of these community college transfers who don’t even submit SAT scores, then, man, Cornell is destined to be the ‘$hit Ivy’ in the eyes of general public for decades to come.

Also, I knew several kids who were GT transfers who didn’t come from NY State. Three kids I knew from my high school (not NY State) got GT option.

Again, this is really unfortunate… I don’t know if Cornell will ever revise its screwed up admissions policies anytime soon.

It’s quite funny… how some people can look so down at Cornell because of all this crap. Last week, I went to a mall with my Cornell hat on. Some lady that works at the mall came up to me and said “Did you go to Cornell? That’s a good school! My son was accepted there, but chose to attend Hofstra University instead, which is also a very good school. My son told me Cornell is one of those schools that is easy to get in, but hard to get out. That’s why he didn’t go.”

After this conversation, I just laughed and left that mall instantly. I was thinking how Cornell’s reputation became an absolute joke to the general public, to be compared to the ranks of Hofstra University et al. (I didn’t even know such thing as ‘Hofstra University’ existed before)