I was accepted early decision to NYU LSP and was given a scholarship that will leave roughly 20,000$ in debt per each year. Should I go to NYU for this one year with plans of getting a good GPA and transferring to Cornell ILR. If I do this within the next couple of days I must withdraw all my other applications to Colleges such as Middlebury and Cornell ILR for regular decision, thus losing out on a chance to either get accepted to Cornell ILR (My dream school) or at least get a likely letter from them. OR should I…
2.) Reject the NYU offer and wait for Regular admissions schools like UConn. Go to UConn, graduate only 5,000 in debt and try to transfer to Cornell ILR.
Which is the better option?
Does Cornell place weight on the fact that NYU is probably significantly more difficult than UConn?
Please give me some advice.
Yes, schools put weight on how difficult your current school is when transferring. If you think the $15K difference is worth the extra boost to get accepted into Cornell, and are willing to put in the effort to get amazing grades, go for it. $15K is a heavy price for a school that you don’t even seem too interested in. Also, why did you waste your ED on NYU when you’re set on Cornell?
@adreamer22 I’m assuming OP isn’t confident he will get into Cornell. Even though it is his dream school, that doesn’t mean that he thinks that he has a good chance of getting in. Columbia is my dream school, but I have no chance of getting in so I didn’t even apply.
I’m guessing you didn’t put LSP as your first choice. Do you have to withdraw all your applications in the next few days even if you got accepted by your second choice? My CAS acceptance message(first choice) says that I have until March 11 to finalize my decision and withdraw all of my other applications.
You should look at how Cornell weighs LSP too. They’ll probably see which school in NYU you go to if you decide to transfer. I’ll definitely offend a lot of people if I say what I want to say, but I’ll use this as an example: They would definitely look more favorably at your transfer application if it said Stern rather than CAS.
@barcodeIlIl You never know what a specific school is looking for. My friend, the valedictorian of my school got deferred from Northeastern EA but got accepted MIT EA. If you really want to go somewhere, as long as $75 isn’t an extravagant amount of money for you, there’s no hurt in trying.
Also, NYU is overall better than UConn in almost every, if not every, aspect academically, so it doesn’t really matter what program you’re in.
Also it’s worth mentioning that you’ll likely be stuck at NYU if to don’t get accepted to Cornell transfer. NYU is notorious for playing cruel FA tricks, drastically lowering need-base aid after freshman year. So even if you calculate that $15K won’t be too big of a deal, you may run into some trouble later on, especially if you try a Junior transfer instead of sophomore, which in most cases is easier. Just some food for thought.
@adreamer22 Well that explains why your valedictorian got deferred by Northeastern EA. He was overqualified(enough for MIT apparently) and Northeastern probably deferred and maybe would have went on to reject him since they knew that he wouldn’t go. This is a big decision to gamble on though. I was thinking of not ED II’ing to NYU, but I decided that I didn’t want to risk it even though I had another school slightly above NYU in terms of dream school list. Took a risk on Northwestern ED and it didn’t work out. I was wrong in playing it safe on the NYU ED II, but its like they say, hindsight is 20/20. Would suck A LOT if he gave up the NYU offer like this(although I don’t know why NYU is giving him a deadline for making a decision if LSP was his second choice) and got rejected by Cornell.
That is unbelievably shady of NYU to do that too if they did it without proper justification.
@barcodeIlIl The kid who’s rank 2 got a near full ride from NEU EA, so that refutes that theory. It’s truly impossible to know what each college is looking for in students, so there’s no harm in trying, especially if you weigh your non-dream schools semi-evenly.