Cornell Fall 2019 Transfer Thread

Just so everyone knows, when I went to Cornell for my college visit, I was told that there are some majors for CAS that may not even have room to accept a single transfer student. I don’t think anyone should immediately rush to criticize their own intellect or accomplishments because of this fact. I applied as a non-TO for Physics, but there is a very solid chance that there simply won’t be room for another Physics student. Especially with TOs getting priority.

This post isn’t meant to worry anyone, so I apologize if it does, but it’s what I was told from a CAS counselor. So if you get rejected or have been rejected, realize that it very well could have been out of your control, so it isn’t logical to blame yourself.

@ParZival12 I am also applying as a non-TO physics student. Do you happen to know the average amount of physics transfers accepted?

does anyone know how cornell is on financial aid? I have been surviving these waves thus far (didn’t think I’d make it this far) and the worst case scenario would be getting in and not being able to afford it. Talk about a heart-breaker lol

Are we looking at acceptances for the next waves?? I’m still waiting on a decision

@oceansquare me too. I am not sure how it is going to be, but I start to loose hope with what-so-called prestigious universities. I think Cornell has waves with mix decisions

@Dreambbig I feel the same way. Got into Northwestern and Michigan but the latter not really ‘prestigious’. I think all the Ivies def qualify tho!

@ParZival12 Was CS one of them? I was told that CS from CAS is less competitive to get in as a transfer than CS from COE. Anyway, I’m a trash anyway given that I got rejected from 6 schools.

Do you guys know how long it takes to receive your financial aid package after the acceptance?

non-TO ILR still waiting to hear. Maybe it’s a good sign we haven’t heard yet? They’re mostly mixed decisions and I submitted my app pretty early. Maybe they haven’t chose to reject us just yet lol. Might break my heart next week.

random thought… but I dread the day I’m still here waiting for a decision while the thread just keeps getting leaner and leaner with people getting accepted/rejected… plz next week cornell

I heard that some have contacted admissions after getting rejected and asked what their application weaknesses were. Is that worth doing?

@Faexpopuli - Tbh I have no idea. I was just putting something out there lol.

@mikeobrien21 - No I don’t. I believe less than a handful though. It’s either going to be me or you. We must fight to the death.

Idk if any of you other non-TO CAS people are getting these feeling too, but I’m thinking that most of us will end up getting our decisions next week seeing as how many CAS people got their decisions this week.

Just a thought.

@IndirectProofs Have you thought about schools in England? My friend who only has a GED and very good SAT scores (1550 + 3 SAT II with a score of at least 780) applied to King’s College, LSE, Cambridge, UCL, and Imperial. He only got rejected by Imperial… so he is now a freshman at Cambridge! You should look into that if you decide to not go to school for this following year. It’s very easy and cheap to apply to those schools and they give financial help to international students as well.

Here we go again, another day of mixed emotion.i just want to stop by to wish luck to all of you. Please remember that you can accomplish things much bigger than being accepted to these universities. Good luck.

@ParZival12 lol we are mortal enemies now

@mikeobrien21 - Hahaha this is great.

do you guys think the next wave will be mostly rejections or acceptances for non-TOs…especially for CALS?

@kingpinadrian I think we will see both, but hopefully there are more acceptances than previous waves.

Applying to engineering school. Still on initiated. Not a good feeling about it.