<p>paki- if that is for one semester, be careful not to overload yourself. You would not want to be successful thus far and then have everything come crashing down because you were careless and threw on too many classes. This could go the other way entirely. The committee could think you are recklessly attempting to impress.</p>
<p>yeah i would think being overly excessive would hurt</p>
<p>yeah I would think about dropping a class or two. It will help you FOCUS on what you are doing- a trait most schools really find desirable.</p>
<p>bumpp… bump…</p>
<p>Everyone i talk to keeps saying NYU is so hard to transfer into, but I don’t think it should be that difficult if you are a minority like pakiboy says. I mean I still think you need to have somewhat average stats and they wont give you a free pass but it helps. At least i hope in my case lol</p>
<p>Pakiboy you’ve neglected to adress the fact that it seems like these schools favor in-state transfers.</p>
<p>Really i don’t think NYU really considers in state vs. out of state because they all pay the same tuition.</p>
<p>I went to Cornell and experienced what the OP is getting at. I think the standards for getting into Cornell in-state are different from out of state because Cornell has a formal commitment to foster the regional economy and help educate the regional population for regional industries. I knew a few people in that situation where you look at them and it’s just mindnumbing to conceive how they got through admissions when I personally knew far, far, FAR smarter people who got rejected.</p>
<p>I also was shocked - a lot of central New York students who never planned to leave central / upstate New York would talk about how it was a big decision for them whether they were going to go to Alfred State or Cornell. To them, Cornell isn’t this prestigious global university that people across the country and around the world try to get into. It’s that school a few towns over that might or might not provide better connections in their regional field.</p>
<p>That said - this very issue is what drags Cornell’s reputation down amongst the Harvard / Yale crowd, but makes it an incredible institution doing something completely original in its own right. You rub elbows with children of the captains of major global industries and children of janitors who beg for more financial aid every year. There are programs on the forefront of nanotechnology and ones immersed in the local dairy farming industry. For better or worse, it’s truly an institution that lives up to its motto of “any person, any study”. I, for one, am a better person because of it.</p>
<p>for cornell it depends if its one of the contract colleges (which are funded by new york state and thus public - and have agreements with cc’s) or the private parts of the school. The only one I know for sure that is private in CAS. Cornell CAS and the one or two other schools that are private are the very well known part of the schools and for anyone to get into them is not something to brush off - granted its not as competative as some of the other ivy’s.</p>
<p>by competative, i mean based on the percentage of applicants accepted only.</p>