<p>Can people who have been offered at GT please list their college in Cornell and thier stats??</p>
<p>I actually took them all. Maybe that’s a fluke but it was rather easy. I just kept sending Ian classes that could fulfill them and he finally approved every one. Maybe it was also because I liked the subjects that it was sort of easy (besides for science lol). But ya use Ian as ur guide and send him lots of course descriptions so you can get as many done as possible. Another thing that helped me was that the core classes for freshman at my school satisfied multiple cornell reqs.</p>
<p>(not knowing we didnt have to take them all gave me motivation haha)</p>
<p>Just an update! Someone a post or two back asked for stats and whatnot of the Fall 2008 GTs? Well, I applied to CALS as a Development Sociology major and will be taking English comp, Bio, Statistics, and Econ this coming semester at a local community college.</p>
<p>Question: for those of you in the class of 2010 who are just going to Cornell for the first time this fall as sophomores–how does the dorm situation work for you? Are you put with other sophomores because they’re your age, or freshmen since you’re both new to the school? I assume they go through the same process as they would with regular transfer students, but I’m just curious to know if I’ll be around other GT kids come fall 2008, just so I feel a little more comfortable being the new kid. 
Thanks in advance for any responses!</p>
<p>"Are you put with other sophomores because they’re your age, or freshmen since you’re both new to the school? "</p>
<p>you’ll be either placed in the transfer center (Hasbrouck) with all the other transfers, or on west campus on a transfer floor! so you’ll be around other Gts!
Congrats btw :)</p>
<p>Isn’t Hasbrouck graduate housing?</p>
<p><a href=“http://campuslife.cornell.edu/graduate_housing/hasbrouck.asp[/url]”>http://campuslife.cornell.edu/graduate_housing/hasbrouck.asp</a></p>
<p>Nope…the transfer dorm got torn down for now so they r putting transfers there. Pro: Obviously nice because it was grads living there
Con: Far away</p>
<p>I am living near lots of gts on West Campus (as far as I know I think there are a lot)</p>
<p>^^ congrats figgy</p>
<p>ah i am having a dilemma whether or not i should try to finish the required courses for cornell (i’m a HE GT… which is kinda a lot… esp since my cornell won’t give me a credit for my APs vs i’ll get all the credits for my school) or just stay at my school (which haven’t started yet… ) for four yrs…
i mean… the gt is very tempting…
but even after i finish all the courses, i have to write an essay (ah another one?!?!)</p>
<p>Depends on what school you are going to. But I wouldn’t give back my gt for the world. If you can see yourself twenty years from now going “I didn’t go to Cornell because I had to write an extra essay and take a few extra freshman classes” imagine if that a positive comment or a negative comment? If it were me it would be me sobbing while saying it hahaha. This is especially true if Cornell is great for your major or if u love Cornell. A little extra work in order to go to Cornell? That’s a definite for me. You just have to ask yourself if you want to be at Cornell or not.</p>
<p>i know that cornell is amazing T.T
but i also want my parents to save some money… rather than spending them</p>
<p>my school costs 10,000/yr vs. cornell 50,000/ yr…</p>
<p>can u apply for financial aid even though u didn’t the first time? cornell is need blind right?</p>
<p>this “extra” essay is just for HE GTs, right?</p>
<p>I know one gt asked for her acceptance and aid first b4 she withdrew [like a month earlier than it was given out]. So you could do that. </p>
<p>Yes it’s need blind and gives a 100% financial need package</p>
<p>Has anyone, who is a science major, activated their guaranteed transfer and actually transferred to CALS? If so, were you able to secure all of Cornell’s classes for your major? Also, what was your major?</p>
<p>thanx!</p>
<p>although doing all the requirements is hard work… i am sure it will eventually pay off in the end… since it is CORNELL <3</p>
<p>oh i have a question…
what if my school takes the AP credit which cornell won’t… and vice versa…
do i have to take those classes (i.e. biology, calculus, etc) even though they might overlap?</p>
<p>This is a question that has sort of been bugging me lately in regards to GT, directed to anyone at Cornell. </p>
<p>What are GTs relationship to students who have already been in Cornell for a year? Are they somehow “ostracized” from the rest of the community because of their “transfer” status? In other words, do GTs (and I guess other transfers…) eventually blend in with everyone else? Anyone (maybe from ILR) have any experience with this? Thanks!</p>
<p>I will be experiencing this soon but from what I heard so far it is the decision of the GT. Many transfers choose to hang out together since they are in the same situation and live together. But no1 will look down on u (esp cuz there are so many…in such a large campus there bound to be many…so leaving out transfers will leave out a lot of people). I would say you would have to make a bit of an extra effort to get into a normal person group since they have all already been hanging out for a year…but that is to be expected. It’s just a matter of what you want to do…</p>
<p>Can someone explain to me the thinking behind GT? Obviously all GT are viewed by Cornell as qualified and desirable addition to the student body. And I don’t think there are that many people dropping out after the first year. Then all these additional places have to be created on top of the already accepted freshman in the sophomore year. If that’s the case, why not offer them admission freshman year?
It creates a number of problems as I can see. 1. the potential two tiers/second class citizens syndrome. ( Although I have never heard that it exists. But it certainly is plausible…"some GT choose to hand out and life together) 2. it creates certain unfairness, namely, the GT might not be as well prepared for the upper course work if they fulfill their pre-requisites through classes at a not as good university or junior college. On the contrary, since they do not use the freshman year GPA in the overall Cornell GPA computation. They gain a significant advantage since a lot of the freshman classes or introductory courses at Cornell are notoriously tough as they are used as weed-out courses. Recognition of such unfairness may lead to discrimination from either side.</p>
<p>I am a GT also. I agree with bioeng. Can someone please answer his question?</p>
<p>They get these spots (40-50 for ILR) because there’s a steady stream of students studying abroad or going on internship breaks that creates open spots in the college. I think the GT system is very efficient and helps fill up these holes by giving students great new opportunities to be at Cornell.</p>
<p>I think there is probably a lot of shuffling around after freshman year. Students change majors or colleges; drop out; transfer out; move around. Some majors in the different colleges are quite small and have few faculty, resulting in a requirement for a smaller class size overall. The GT program, I think, in some cases allows the university to expand the class size for a major by allowing students to enter as sophomores that they want to admit but just don’t have room for as freshmen. This is what we were told.</p>