Cornell Transfer Advice

monydad
Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:40:19 +0000

Only an admissions officer can tell you for sure to what degree they will actually weight the various information they ask for. And I am not an admissions officer.

But IMO they must be convinced that you can satisfactorily complete the work at the engineering college. Which is hard.
GPA in college may be given more credence than prior academic work, but if your college is very easy I would not expect them to ignore prior measures that may help them more accurately gauge where you really stand among their other applicants.

If you fall in this camp (easy college with less academically competitive cohort), suggest don’t let inflated performance at an easy school delude yourself. If you get there you will be competing with the students who got in originally, whose academic profile out of college you can find. (eg
http://profiles.asee.org/profiles/6574/screen/19?school_name=Cornell+University )

If you don’t really fit academically in with that cohort, based on what you did in HS, suggest don’t apply. If they do admit you, there is a good chance you will get your butt whipped once you get there. I’ve seen this happen.

On the other hand, if you do fit, go for it.