<p>Everything that I have seen says that AEM’s averrage ACT score is 28-29, is that true. And, I’m a resident of Washington state, does that help or hurt me in applying to a land grant school like CALS?</p>
<p>where did u see that? Show me a link please lol…pretty sure average ACT score is more like 32-33</p>
<p>The average SAT/ACT score for AEM is right around the average for CALS (which is probably a 30). That average is deceptive though because there are quite a few recruited athletes in AEM and recruited athletes tend to have substantially lower SAT scores. Since AEM is so small, even 10 athletes can drag down the SAT average quite a bit. If I had to guess, I’d say that the average ACT score for a non-athlete is probably around CAS level (around 31-32) to get into AEM. The 11% acceptance rate should tell u that AEM has plenty of qualified applicants.</p>
<p>Here is the link for the information I recieved:
[Cornell</a> University: Undergraduate Profile – BusinessWeek](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>They say the mean in 29 and the median is 30</p>
<p>why is aem so hard to transfer in to? is it b/c there’s a lot of applicant and/or they’re looking for specific qualities?</p>
<p>I believe AEM takes guaranteed transfer, therefore there are not as many openings for other students to transfer into.</p>
<p>Being from Washington won’t help/hurt you, if you’re an unhooked candidate get as high an ACT as possible.</p>
<p>being in washington will most definitely hurt u. I can assure u those ppl who are applying to Wharton (about 4000) and Stern are also applying to Cornell. If u look at the number of NYS students and number of out-of-state students in AEM’s required first yr class, AEM 1101, most of them are from NY. That leaves about 20~ out of state students. so 20 out of thousands of out of state applicants. yes, u have a great chance of getting in</p>
<p>i know plenty of athletes in AEM who are smart… stop ripping on athletes. Also it is ridiculously easy to switch into AEM from arts and sciences or any other college so if you think you have a better shot of simply being accepted to CAS do it b/c you can just transfer in… i think it has a 90% acceptance transfer rate</p>
<p>sorry for reviving this but the above is my exact question…how true is this? i just got a likely from cornell CAS, but I want to work on wall street/do business or consulting…</p>
<p>You can still be an Economics major, but if you’re really worried you could try to transfer into AEM.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be in AEM to go into IB or consulting later. You will just need high GPA (3.5+), relevant courses and work experience to be a creditable candidate.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be in AEM to go into IB or consulting later. You will just need high GPA (3.5+), relevant courses and work experience to be a creditable candidate.</p>
<p>This is the one thing I don’t like. I’m choosing to take a language and can’t keep my GPA above 3.5 because of it and I’m getting penalized. Now granted it’s only my first year, but still. Some GPA’s in AEM (and some other majors) can be really inflated because of the courses folks take.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s true. But according to D1, firms expect AEMers to have higher GPAs. Language is a killer at Cornell. D1 wanted to take Chinese at Cornell, but decided not to because of amount of work involved (and there were too many natives 
). When she was interviewing, she had minimum required GPA, but they recognized difficulty of her major(s) and did cut her some slack. </p>
<p>Try to balance out your course load.</p>
<p>So can anyone speak about how difficult it is to transfer from CAS to the AEM major?</p>