Denied as a Transfer but asked to Reapply

Aran888888
Thu, 31 May 2018 23:12:02 +0000

Hello all,

I recently applied to Cornell from Clarkson University as a transfer applicant to Civil Engineering, and was denied. The Engineering department reached out to me afterwards, stating that although faculty was interested in my application, my first-year courses did not fulfill the requirements to be admitted as a sophomore. However, the email stated that should I be able to use my next year at Clarkson to fulfill the requirements of sophomore admission to Cornell, the faculty would be interested in considering my application again.

My questions are thus:

Is this a common email? More importantly, what should I think of it? The way I’m treating it is that presuming I can meet the transfer requirements and maintain my extracurriculars/GPA, I have a pretty decent shot at being accepted next year. I’d like to hear if anyone else has received such a request and knows more about it.

Thanks for any information available!