<p>Cornell offers a guaranteed tranfer to a select few students each year. I think there were about 100 students who got one from Cals last year. My daughter received one. </p>
<p>Essentially they give students who almost made the cut a way of transferring in for sophomore year w/o havng to re-apply. You have to take courses at your first year school that are equivalent to the courses you would take at Cornell and then get a 3.0 or above average with no grade below a C and you are in automatically.</p>
<p>Here is a thread from the Cornell page of CC:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-2014/897075-cornell-transfer-option.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-2014/897075-cornell-transfer-option.html</a></p>