<p>yep! you can withdraw your app. at any time!</p>
<p>I called them and they told me there were about 200 ILR GTs last year…only about 45-50 actually go through with it.</p>
<p>bearing in mind the size of ILR, that sounds about right</p>
<p>not all will use the GT…so that sounds logical! and yeah you must consider the size of ILR!</p>
<p>how did you guys check to make sure the college youre going to now lets you take the required classes?</p>
<p>U just look at the course guide. I would find classes and then email them to Ian to make sure they were alright. Do this for science especially! gl</p>
<p>Wow, so how many colleges in Cornell have GT actually?</p>
<p>Figgy–Before you went to your current college, did you make sure they would allow you to take the courses you needed freshman year? Also, did you coordinate the courses from the course guide with Cornell before you even enrolled at your current college? Our fear is that either the 1-year college won’t allow our son to take what he needs, or there will be some other kind of mess up.</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>Also, Figgy (or anyone else going through Cornell’s GT process as well)–Our son is currently trying to decide where to go for freshman year from his other accepted colleges. That’s where we’re coming from with our questions. </p>
<p>Also, again–what has Cornell told you about meshing into your major once you get to Ithaca? In other words, aren’t the freshman at Cornell taking an intro. course in your major, at least freshman year? How has ILR told you you’ll be able to catch up?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I explained the situation to my counselor at my current college, and they managed to work out the situation…right now my major is undecided and so I was able to easily choose the courses for ILR! I would definitely talk with a college counselor! </p>
<p>Your son should receive a guideline with all the requirements for ILR. He can then choose from the lists, courses that are similar to the ones offered at his first year college in order to fulfill the two requirements in each of the three areas: Science & Technology, Cultural Perspective, and Western Intellectual Tradition!<br>
ILR GT’s don’t have to complete all the requirements from the three areas, but they have to take two courses in Freshmen English, and two courses in Introductory Economics. This way your son won’t be behind other students once he gets to Cornell his Soph. yr! </p>
<p>Also, once you find courses that are pretty similar to the ones on the lists, it’s really important to email them to Ian (the ILR transfer counselor) to make sure they’ll fulfill the requirements! Fining the English and Econ are easy, it’s finding courses in the other three areas that I found to be particularly difficult…I must have emailed Ian like a million times with potential courses lol but it worked out!</p>
<p>Thanks so much, Acerbic, for replying. Our son isn’t a GT to ILR but to another college at Cornell. He does have the list of courses, like you mention, but they are more gen. ed. courses and nothing in his major. I’m glad to hear your college counselor at your current college helped–are you at a 4-year school, or a 2-year? I’m wondering if a 4-year school will want him to stay and therefore not help him–do you see what I mean? He’s already hearing this vibe from a professor in his major at the 4-year school he could attend for freshman year. </p>
<p>Thanks again!</p>
<p>I’m currently at a two yr institution…I was planning on going to a 4 yr tho and it turned out that they weren’t going to let me take the requirements, as they had there own and it would have become a really complicated situation… I got some good financial offers too, but I had to, unfortunately, turn them down! I’m pretty happy at the 2 yr institution right now and they’re not strict at all with the course selection…ect.</p>
<p>My son received a GT from AEM last year. As TrilliumCB said, “it is not a sure thing”. Check out my thread from last June. He was in a dispute with the transfer Director over equivalent credits at his second choice college for the Biology requirement. Cornell rejected a 9 credit option, meaning he probably had to go to 12. After becoming comfortable with his college, joining a fraternity, a girlfriend, and starting on the lacrosse team, he decided against the GT. </p>
<p>He was treated poorly by admissions and probably would have been happier with an outright rejection. As an alum, I won’t be sending any more checks to Cornell.</p>
<p>Do you think Cornell would have/find “less problems” say if I go to a prestigious, well-known college like USC (University of Southern California)?</p>
<p>Probably not! I don’t see why they would find any problems if you follow the instructions and maintain the req. GPA…!</p>
<p>Tamiami–</p>
<p>Thank you very much for posting and referring us to your GT dilemma thread from last year. I was looking for the “doomsday scenario” just to see what kinds of things could go wrong with this plan (I’m sorry you and your son had such a bad experience). I think the GT <em>could</em> be a real mess if not handled extremely carefully. I’m cautiously optimistic that my son can work out the GT option if he chooses to go through with it, but I want him to have both eyes wide open and plan very very early and plan very very carefully if he chooses to do this. Cornell has advised us to send them course descriptions, as everyone’s saying, in order to get transfer approval. We are attempting to do this even <em>before</em> he chooses which college to attend this fall to get the courses on record for transfer approval–we’re being that careful. He would choose his freshman school likely on the courses Cornell tells him will work (if he decides to go through all this trouble). My biggest concern is that he would be giving up his 2nd choice school that has a very good reputation in his major to do the GT at Cornell. So far, he wants to go there enough that the extra fuss and bother is worth it to him…</p>
<p>Cornell will find plenty of problems matching their prerequisites to any “prestigious” University, esp. Biology, where Cornell feels they have no peer. Everyone of your submitted courses is referred to the corresponding Cornell department for a judgement as to whether it matches up. If it takes 9 credits of Biology (or more) to meet the CALS requirement of 6, don’t expect them to actually give you credit for all 9. </p>
<p>The problem my son had was trying to meet Cornell’s GT requirement as well as requirements for his enrolled College. It was impossible to do. And there was zero tolerance for exceptions.</p>
<p>Acerbic–Thanks for your reply. I was wondering if a 2-year school might be more flexible to offer the courses Cornell would require in time. Have you run into any of the problems with your 2-year school, especially in Biology, that Tamiami talks about with her son? Oh, but you are in ILR, right? You might not have that sticky Bio. requirement…?</p>
<p>no i don’t have to take Bio…which I’m happy about! lol and yes i’m in ILR…so there might be some differences in the GT process…
so far i haven’t encountered any problems with my college :)</p>
<p>Thanks so much, Acerbic–It sounds like ILR has a smooth process for the GT and have their act together with the good representative contact, etc… I’m glad you’re having such a good experience. I’m wondering now if GT is such a good fit in the other colleges…hmm. My son is in a college that requires Bio…eek.</p>