<p>^^^^^
absolutely. big difference.</p>
<p>Yeah, (hopefully) I’d imagine so! I think most of us here on this thread are sophomore-entering GTs.</p>
<p>delivery man–It probably depends on the college at Cornell where you are a GT. You could always call and ask.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>applejack–My S and our family don’t fit into either of the 2 categories of students who were in your GT group. Interesting how you noticed that pattern in your group, though. Also, like diehldun said, most of the GTs who post frequently on here lately are 1-year GTs, which I think makes much more of a difference, like you and the others are saying, about how much a part of Cornell you eventually feel after you get there.</p>
<p>I love the perspective you mention about transfers having a wider view of collegiate life because they’ve been somewhere else before they get to Cornell. As much as Cornell means to them, they know there’s a “bigger world out there” as well as another way to do things college-wise. My S’s current school, for example, is very small. I have liked that about it, and I think he has, too. It will be VERY different when he moves to Ithaca this fall–if all goes well. He will give up quite a lot to gain quite a lot of other things, but he will have experienced BOTH, which is a pretty cool way to think about it! (and we all know GTs need ways to feel “cool”). :)</p>
<p>^^^^
just to clarify - I did say there were others that did not fit those two groups, just a larger-than-normal proportion of those two groups given the general population of Cornell.</p>
<p>applejack, it was really nice to read about how your transfer experience went. Even though we’re all excited about this GT thing, I think a lot of us are unsure about how the assimilation process will go. Hopefully, though, coming in as a sophomore will make the process a little easier than it would be coming in as a junior.</p>
<p>Since I’m working this year more than going to school, it has definitely added a whole other dimension to my post-high school experience. Even though I wish I could’ve been at Cornell for freshman year, it’s been really interesting/cool/enjoyable to get my feet wet in the “real world” of jobs. </p>
<p>Taking classes at a community college has exposed me to such a different world because I’m surrounded by people that I never would have taken classes with in high school (I was a full IB diploma candidate). In retrospect, I think I might have needed this year as a reality check to expose me to those who aren’t in the “natural” four-year college progression .</p>
<p>This makes me so excited to meet all the other 2011 GTs. 
:)</p>
<p>just some of my own advice to all transfers…your experience at Cornell will be what you make it. Some people I lived with in the Transfer Center threw themselves into everything and adjusted very well…others chose to spend their time on school work only and didn’t do as well socially.</p>
<p>you will have plenty of opportunities to get involved in whatever you want to do. just remember to make the most of it…time flies by…it seems like just yesterday I was “starting over” at Cornell and in 3 months I will be an alum…eeek</p>
<p>"In retrospect, I think I might have needed this year as a reality check to expose me to those who aren’t in the “natural” four-year college progression .</p>
<p>This makes me so excited to meet all the other 2011 GTs." </p>
<p>Indigo - I’m sitting here getting really excited for you. Cornell is like this fairytale land with gorgeous old buildings and massive waterfalls, a quirky city, an awesome art museum, professors who’ll invite you out to their homes for weekend-long parties or downtown to throw one back. I know it’s cliche, but just engage as much as you can. It’s like another world there.</p>
<p>I can guarantee you’re going to be lightyears beyond so many of your peers already there because of your experience. It reminds of this time a classmate (not at Cornell) laughed at my resume because I had done hard manual labor to make money instead of an internship at some prestigious law firm or something like that. </p>
<p>The crew I worked with mocked, ridiculed, and shunned me all summer because I was educated. I just kept my mouth shut and one by one outworked every one of those hardass guys until I shut them all up. When the boss’ son was picked to be foreman over me, all of them said they’d follow me any day over him.</p>
<p>What’s that score on the SAT? :)</p>
<p>^^
Lovin’ applejack’s post to Indigo! :)</p>
<p>nice posts lol. Ya bein a sophomore u adjust and fit in much more easily</p>
<p>applejack and dewdrop- you both hinted that there’s a big difference between entering as a sophomore and as a junior. care to elaborate?</p>
<p>I’ll speak from my experience entering as a sophomore. I lived in the no-longer-existent Transfer Center on west. So I lived with over 100 other transfers and was able to make friends quickly. I also chose to get involved in a few organizations to speed up my acclimation. I also had to complete many large pre-med courses and other courses to fulfill grad requirements so I was able to meet a lot of people this way…so I really feel as if I’ve been here for 4 years…I sometimes forget I transferred here :-)</p>
<p>I had many friends who came in as juniors and they chose to get involved in activities/branch out and they assimilated well. I also had both sophomore and junior friends who chose to focus only on academics and they didn’t fare well socially.</p>
<p>I’m sure many who transferred in as juniors will disagree with me…but I think that as long as you’re willing to branch out and be social when you come here it doesn’t make too much of a difference in terms of acclimation and such. Obviously as a sophomore you have more time here to adjust and such and juniors are only here for 2 years so they have to fit all of their major and college requirements so it can be more stressful for them. But…I’ll let a junior transfer elaborate on their views :-)</p>
<p>“applejack and dewdrop- you both hinted that there’s a big difference between entering as a sophomore and as a junior. care to elaborate?”</p>
<p>Well, I guess simply put sophomore year you’re still more-or-less beginning college. You’re not really established in the school you’re transferring from.</p>
<p>Junior year, assuming you get out in 4, you’re going to have as much experience at another college as you do Cornell. So, one school’s culture doesn’t necessarily dominate your life like it would transferring sophomore year with just a year somewhere else. </p>
<p>On the up side, you know what you want out of Cornell and do work pretty hard to get there in 2 years (even though a lot of credits transfer). On the downside, you don’t really have time to double major or build your way up to president of some organization or captain of a team (usually, since there’s already an established culture that you’re entering and won’t have enough time to grow with that culture as it changes).</p>
<p>Plus, you’re just typically more mature, more independent junior year - you’ve got the college thing down, so there’s not a lot that’s going to surprise you. I could see how coming in sophomore year one would feel like they never transferred. It’s great both ways, though. </p>
<p>Like I said before - I found the 4 year Cornell students to be a little sheltered and myopic in their view of the world compared to a lot of the junior transfers.</p>
<p>Figgy! We haven’t heard from you in a while! How are things over at Cornell second semester?</p>
<p>applejack–</p>
<p>I’m glad that you know where I’m coming from. Your post definitely made me even more excited about next fall. :)</p>
<p>I have a guaranteed transfer to one college, but I’ve had a change of heart regarding my major… so I’m sending in a transfer application to the appropriate college as if I did not have the privilege of a guaranteed transfer. Do you guys think that my previous GT status would have any bearing on the decision?</p>
<p>^^ I am pretty confident that it does not have any bearing. Since each college at Cornell does admissions differently, your gt status at one college isn’t going to influence the decision made at another college. By the way, what college ru applying to?</p>
<p>anybody ilr gt here? just to make sure, we didn’t have to write an essay or anything like that for the application, right? (bc the supplement required essay only from human ecology gts)</p>
<p>I am applying to Arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>Hey delivery man! No, besides sending in the forms, we don’t have to write or do anything else for ILR.</p>