How are transfers into Brown?

tsakashvili
Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:59:01 +0000

One error I noted is that I accidentally called the agricultural school at Cornell the “College of Arts and Letters.” I meant to use its actual name the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (you can see the use of the correct acronym for that in the list of universities I recommended looking at). I can only say that it was pretty late at night, and I must have misremembered what the words beyond the CALS acronym were. My bad.

As to why I reccomended the CALS over The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), The College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell is a perfectly good school, but the CALS’ focus on life sciences really seems to fit your skills and interests as a pre-medical student well. They also care more about quantitative skills, and less about literary skills, than the CAS, so your high SAT II’s in math and science would probably have a bigger impact there than at the CAS (your SAT I writing and reading scores would conversely mattter less at CALS than at CAS). I’m not telling you what to do, but it seemed like the school’s focus on life sciences and emphasis on quantitative skills would match your talents and interests. Anyway, sorry about the mistake, I hope my advice has been helpful, and I also hope that you get into Brown.