I think as long as they meet the requirements, but they don’t call it “guaranteed.”
I’m sorry to ask, but can anyone explain the TO? It seems like a great opportunity, but has me concerned if there is a low retention rate for freshman? My admitted had a strong reaction from someone he reached out to from his high school that left after a year. Taking it a with a grain of salt as one opinion, but the TO chatter had me curious.
I think the transfer option at Cornell is more a product of freshman housing limits than a retention problem. Offering the transfer option gets more kids on campus for three years without having to build more dorms.
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Right. I graduated 25 years ago and even back then it was a thing.
Cornell has a very high retention and graduation rate. They rank in the top group among all universities.
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I heard it’s relatively easy to transfer from contracted colleges to endowed colleges like CAS. This creates spaces for TO into these contracted colleges.
I have heard the opposite.
We just met someone who transferred out of Cornell because of seasonal affective disorder. Statistically the retention rate is very high but I’m also a little concerned because my kid will likely be transferring from LA to Ithaca. I’m also curious if its harder to get research opportunities as a TO because you’ve had less time to make connections…
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Nope. As mentioned, Cornell ‘s freshman retention rate is one of the highest at 97%:
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Has anyone heard if Cornell might adjust the acceptance deadline of May 1st as other schools are doing?
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How do uou pursue the waitlist vigorously besides sending a LOCI and possibly another recommendation? Some schools explicitly state they do not accept additional LORs.
Thanks for any advice!
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When my daughter was waitlisted at Columbia three years back, she made her counsellor get in touch with the admission officer. Then she sent three LOCIs each in the interval of 15 days. Of course another recommendation will help. She was advised to put her name in the subject line so they remember her name.
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Cornell discourages additional letters of recommendation. From their website:
“Updated materials can include information about new awards or honors and/or a letter of continued interest. We encourage you to have your school submit an updated official grade report. Additional letters of recommendation are discouraged.”
Did your kid get off the waitlist and into Columbia?
She got off the waitlist and she is a junior at Columbia now.
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For those on Cornell’s waitlist, did you get an email from Cornell today? It asked me to sign up on the waitlist, but I had already done that several days ago. I just wanted to know if others received this email, too.
Anyone on the waitlist know if it is ok to send multiple updates? I know they discourage extra letters of recommendation but unsure if that’s the case for other academic/non-academic accomplishments, etc.
For those admitted recently, was your estimated financial aid package what was expected? More specifically, did the Total Family Contribution amount jive with anything close to the FAFSA SAI or Net Price Calculator estimates?
I have been running these calculators in good faith since last fall, and there have been some minor fluctuations in expected contribution, but nothing significant. We were comfortable that this would be an affordable option for our daughter if she was fortunate to get an offer of admittance. We are crushed that our contribution estimate from Cornell FA is $20K higher than what was expected. We are not sure what to think since everything is so fluid right now.
So … I’m wondering if I should just let the FA departments do their thing and assume this gap will be closed when we receive our final aid offer, or be proactive and push for someone in FA to look into our situation.
The Cornell FA website says mid-May for offers to be extended, but we have a May 1st Cornell commitment deadline looming. We can’t commit to a nearly $100k/4-years gap between expectations and possibilities. I’d love for someone to tell us that these Cornell estimated aid numbers were just preliminary and could change significantly, but I know our CSS and FAFSA numbers are correct and not sure how all this could be so out of whack.
Anyone else in the same situation?
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My daughter is still on the waitlist here, so we don’t know about Cornell fa estimate yet. But her CMU fa estimate turned out to be better than the NPC estimate, which is a surprise to us.
NPCs for both schools yielded similar results for us.
mine was abt $7k/yr more than expected and my dad just lost his job, so he sent in an appeal detailing our situation and called the fin aid office. i think you should def send in an appeal as well; it doesn’t hurt to try and they may revise your package sooner! not sure what i’ll do if i don’t hear back by may 1st abt the appeal result tho.