Don't Sweat Rejection: TRANSFER!!!

CayugaRed2005
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:52:19 +0000

And now for my final, and assuredly most polemical, point. I don’t care how low the percentages are for transfer admissions. The truth is most of the best people were already accepted during their senior year. They probably chose to attend or have absolutely no interest in transferring. So your competition is all the other rejects and community college applicants. If you were at the top of the rejection pile this year (and if you have good scores, it’s probable b/c you’d be surprised how horrible some of the applicants are. I think two years ago 1000 applicants were automatically rejected b/c they didn’t fill out their name or something.), then it shouldn’t be too hard. I met a ton of transfer dummies (out of my 8 fellow transfers in my department, I was one of only 3 to graduate. And one of them struggled mightily. The transfer center was apparently a non-stop party.), so it doesn’t seem that hard to get in.



Agreed. If you are a hard working and intelligent student and still interested in Cornell, you will most likely do well. But don’t expect it to be a cake walk. You will work harder than you did at your previous school.

(Except for one girl I knew who transferred from Caltech for a better social life – she thought that Cornell was the perfect balance.)