:: The Transfer Applicant Mistakes Thread ::

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<p>I applied to NYU, originally, and left that school’s name all in the essay, I repeated it about five or six times, and completely forgot to change it to Brown, the school I sent the essay to.</p>

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<p>I was going to, but I didn’t think it would help. I think I should just give up on brown, lol</p>

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<p>My mistakes - so far…

  1. Only bothering to investigate and apply to one school.
  2. Deciding to apply less than a month before the early deadline, then making myself crazy getting everything done in the time crunch.
  3. Trying to keep the secret from all my friends here at my current school - I just didn’t want to hurt any of them or complicate things!</p>
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<p>I’m only applying to one place, so I’m not telling my friends at my current school until (if) I get in.</p>

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<p>Not applying to Northeastern :|</p>

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<p>Yeah I haven’t told anyone either. It’ll ruin the element of surprise…if I get in that is. lol</p>

<p>If I don’t get in, no one would know I got rejected…well except for all my profs and everyone in the Dean’s Office…and everyone in the Registrar’s Office. Great…</p>

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<p>Yeah same here juicyfruit. I tried to make it clear that I wasn’t transferring to get better academics, and that I love my current school, but it just didn’t “fit”. Now once I get rejected it’ll be awkward with my advisor and people.</p>

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<p>Yeah…get this: I had a professor from last year write me a recommendation to a number of schools – and now I’m back in another one of his classes this spring. Eek.</p>

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<p>My mistakes applying to schools:</p>

<p>Forgetting to use my mom’s check card instead of mine.</p>

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<p>hahaha janel, that must be awkward.</p>

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<p>not applying to any safeties, for me, my safest schools are chicago, rice, northwestern (i got into all 3 last year as a freshman). However, if these are my safe schools, I am in trouble I realize now. I could easily wipe the board blanc. Looks like I may be back at Cornell next year.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone else.</p>

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<p>cornell can’t be that bad bball?</p>

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<p>Distracting myself from coursework by transfer process and frequenting CC.</p>

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<p>no, its not bad at all, i like it a lot more now</p>

<p>i was saying, in terms of admissions, i have no safeties…i guess cornell is my safety…but for transfer admission–i could be royally screwed</p>

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<p>i would love to go to cornell, but hotel school is too competitive (i have no experience) and aem required bio (which i never took). oh well.</p>

<p>bball, if you got admitted last year to those 3 schools, you shouldn’t have a problem now. i’d think that they’d want you even more.</p>

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<p>“i would love to go to cornell, but hotel school is too competitive”</p>

<p>this is just a pointless note…but University of Central Florida has the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Orlando…if i remember correctly…it’s tied (somehow) to Cornell. Anyway, its a superb hospitality school…my sister goes there.</p>

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<p>they also say purdue is #1 in hotel management. right.
well, i’m pretty sure purdue and central florida have great hospitality programs, but cornell’s hotel school is top-notch (plus an ivy league).</p>

<p>other hospitality programs i was considering were nyu’s scps and BU’s sha, but i would pick cornell over any of those in a heart beat.</p>

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<p>i find that very odd, too. Cornell is in the middle of nowhere, NY…who do they have to cater towards?..i understand UCF because it’s in Orlando and the entire city thrives on tourism and hospitality.</p>

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<p>they have a statler hotel, which the hotel students operate</p>

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<p>that would explain it haha. ;)</p>