<p>I am a Pakistani student currently attending Onondaga Community College in Central New York.</p>
<p>Looking at previous posts and threads associated with the transfer admission into universities like Cornell & NYU, based on information I have received, I think most of you are just embroidering the arduousness of transfer admission to the afore-mentioned universities.</p>
<p>Two of my freinds (Indian & Pakistani), both applied with average stats from Onondaga Community College.</p>
<p>My Indian freind had a 3.5 GPA (not so competitive classes), B+ & B in Calculus I & II respectively… her effort of putting in an application into Cornell didn’t render unabortive… SHE GOT IN! She applied to College of Arts & Sciences with Chemisty & Biology Major. (Her SAT score was 850 out of 1600 when she took it back in High School!)</p>
<p>Secondly, my Pakistani freind applied with a GPA of 3.4, again not so competitive classes (she wasn’t even part of Phi Theta Kappa or any honours!)… She applied to most of the universities including NYU College of Arts & Sciences (Major: Biology) … she got in AS WELL!</p>
<p>some of u have excellent stats… i wonder why u guyz can’t get in!
*Onondaga Community College holds no kind of transfer or articulation agreement with New York University. However, their is a limited transfer agreement between Cornell and Onondaga… but it’s only with the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences!</p>
<p>None of them had great EC’s… I would say… no EC’s at all!</p>
<p>Uhh, you think it has anything to do with the fact that they are extreme minorities? </p>
<p>There are plenty of reasons why they may have been admitted, and your post is extremely ambiguous. </p>
<p>This would be like me saying that I knew a kid who was admitted into Harvard, and that I didn’t consider him to be particularly intelligent. Thus, we should all be able to get into Harvard if we are intelligent. It’s an obvious logical fallacy.</p>
<p>Offcourse that’s my point! … i didn’t apply to those schools yet! I saw each and every credential… of theirs… offcourse …they are my best freinds!</p>
<p>NYU & Cornell… has both a big Pakistani & Indian community… i don’t think that it has anything to do with that… My transfer counselor told me… that it’s not that hard to get into universities like NYU or Cornell!</p>
<p>My whole point is … that u guyz… blow the issue of transfer admissions specially to NYU…way out of proportions! No offense!</p>
<p>Sorry to repeat the phrase again, but surely you jest. To suggest transfer admissions are easy at any reasonably competitive school is just dumb.</p>
<p>Haha, fair enough… But I didn’t mean ethnically, I meant nationally (figured he was talking about Indian and Pakistani nationals, i.e. international students)</p>
<p>Also, Cornell puts a rather large emphasis on the Sciences, so those who have excelled in that field have a slightly better shot than say, an english student.</p>
<p>i came to Syracuse … 1 year and abt 6 months ago…
honestly…found it very boring… the city has no life… and specially for some one coming from KARACHI…which is 4 times the Size of New York City and abt twice it’s population… it’s a BIG NO! for me…</p>
<p>coming from a prestigious catholic private high school in Pakistan to a community college was for me… psychologically very degrading… I missed my admission into SU & Lemoyne for that spring… and didn’t want to waste anytime…</p>
<p>My cousins in U.S. told me to join a community college and then transfer. They said it won’t make a difference… the closest by… was OCC!</p>
<p>Well…OCC is o.k… the standard of education is very low for most classes… but at the same time… if u take classes with permanent faculty members… they are a bit challenging… The campus is dull and boring… but I think they are trying to renovate it to the best of their abilities… Whitney complex is nicely built!</p>
<p>I accumulated 62 credits in just 1 year! lol! & none of them are non-credits or PEH! or recitations!
Campus Life… for most students is just coming to school…and leaving for work! However, I recently joined Student Government… PTK & Honours.</p>
<p>I am pursuing a dual degree in Business Administration and Maths/Science… and as some of my counselors say… quite a diverse combination!
I am planning to transfer to Stern…Cornell…Berkley…UPenn(some say it’s impossible).
Do you know that every year… O.C.C. students transfer to Columbia!</p>
<p>I am taking 26 credits this fall… wish me best of luck!</p>
<p>Yeah… also abt the Cornell/NYU transfer thing with my freinds… IT’S REAL!!! however… both of them are quite stupid!.. the one who got admission into NYU is going to SU… and while the other who got in at Cornell went to SUNY Binghamton…</p>
<p>Do u know anyone else who was successful in transferring to NYU specially Stern from O.C.C.</p>
<p>While I can’t speak of OCC first hand, I agree with you 100% on Syracuse (that’s why I live in New York now). But OCC is generally known as one of the best CCs in New York so kids DO go to really great schools if they transfer out. Cornell would be a REALLY good bet as they tend to recongnize and have connections to Central NY schools (OCC, TCCC, Syr, LeMoyne, Ithaca, etc.) SO you should think about that. NYU, on the whole, is NOT hard to transfer into (Tisch being the exception). However, if I were to reccomend a school out of those two, I would reccomend Cornell all the way (and this is coming from a kid who lives in NYC now). Most people I know who go there, which is a lot, are NOT happy. But yes, you shouldn’t have TOO hard of a time getting into either.</p>
<p>Although, admissions is so crazy now (especially Transfer admissions) that it’s really a crap shoot.</p>
<p>jwm… so where are ur OCC freinds are planning to transfer to? (don’t tell me it’s a SUNY school)
… well it might sound absurd…but in each class I ever took at OCC…there was at least one CORNELL student! during Summer… 75% are either Lemoyne or SU students… In my Statistics II class of 25 students… I was one of the two students from OCC taking that class! lol! the rest were a mixture from Lemoyne, Cornell, SU & other SUNY’s.</p>
<p>OCC…is far better than many community colleges in NY. It is offcourse the second largest undergraduate institution in central New York excluding universities… (that’s what the college says???)</p>
<p>The problem with Cornell is it’s weak Accounting Major… they just added Accounting as a new major in Applied Economics & Management. To prepare for a CPA exam in Cornell… u have to take a majority of accounting courses at Ithaca College… ***!</p>
<p>i’ve known OCC kids to go to Cornell, Syracuse, GW, Boston U., etc. </p>
<p>That’s a weird fact, the thing about i being nthe second largest undergraduate institution in central new york. I mean, sure it is, but I don’t know. Just weird.</p>
<p>I would still try for NYU. A friend of mine with weaker stats. than your friend (although she went to a private school) transfered in (but not to Steinhart). I think you have a decent shot. You should try looking at schools in a similar vein. Washington U. in St. Louis, U of Chicago, BC. But again, when transfering, it is often just a lot of luck that gets people in. Trust me, after being rejected from the schools I wanted to transfer into even with a what I would consider “very strong” application, I know.</p>
<p>coz…NYU explicitly states…in their slogan… “Diversity Matters”
alot of friends of mine have told me… that with even average stats u can get in… coz…u are a Pakistani national…</p>
<p>one of my cousins at NYU have told me that…Pakistani community at NYU have been declining. In fact, he told me that he doesn’t know any Pakistani guy or gal who goes to Stern…</p>
<p>Bait & Switch… this is an effort to prove to my future-transfer institutions that I am “not a normal” community college student…
…i want to do Accounting… i am majoring in Math/Science & Business Administration…I am professional web designer…and my hobbies are…playing cricket… quite a weird combination…</p>
<p>well from January onwards next year… (just before applying)… i will do 3 internships… just to fill up that internship column…</p>
<p>please pray for me! thanks</p>
<p>Those 26 credits are:
Calculus II (Honours) 3.00
The Art of Inquiry (Honours) 1.00
General Biology I (with lab) 4.00
Financial Accounting (Honours) 3.00
Introduction to Sociology (Honours) 3.00
Freshman English Composition & Literature II (Honours) 3.00
Physical Geology (with lab) 4.00
Calculus III 4.00</p>
<p>Yes…my department allowed me to take Calc II & III in the same term…
What do u think abt the schedule?</p>