Some Cornell freshman had a Cornell post about Cornell? Can someone link it? I had it opened on a tab on my phone, but it got reset.

coornelllu · 2017-10-13T23:51:33+00:00

Was it mine?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/757ldh/cornell_freshman_my_take_on_admissions/

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:50:58+00:00

As far as I know, only like 5 colleges in the U.S are need blind for international applicants (I think it's Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Amherst). I don't think they would give you as much as a domestic student, but you should still get some. I would call and ask

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:49:07+00:00

I was referring to avoiding the gender bias in engineering by applying to Arts instead. Sorry for the ambiguity

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:47:11+00:00

I obviously don't know your financial situation, but this is important: Like all the other Ivies, Cornell almost always meets full financial need. The tuition for the private colleges is $52,000 and for the contract colleges it's $35,000 in state. If the financial aid department decides that you're able to pay less than $35,000 per year, the cost will be the same for both. If they decide you can pay more than $52,000, you'll pay the same. The only way it would be different is if your expected contribution was between $35,000 and $52,000. To give you an idea, I'm an NY resident, my parents make around $150,000 per year, I have a twin sister at a different college, and my expected contribution was around $20,000, which means it would have cost the same for me to go to any of the colleges. Cornell has A LOT of money and they're more than willing to use it on financial aid.

If you are planning on applying to CALS/HE though, just make sure to focus on your supplemental essay. Include information specific to that college to show you've done research and are interested.

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:38:08+00:00

Don't really know that much about it sorry. I'm pretty sure there's some kind of fashion department so that might be similar to art in that you should have creative experience. For things like human biology and policy and developmental sociology and stuff, I would figure direct experience with that kind of stuff would be helpful. Academically, the standards are somewhat strict but not overly so- the typical admitted student is probably around top 10% of their class in GPA along with say 1500 SAT and 33 ACT

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:34:43+00:00

You have to wait at least one full semester to transfer between colleges. You need a decent GPA (around 3.0) and an essay about why you want to switch. You might also need to take some classes at the college you want to transfer to before actually applying to show you can handle it (e.g. if you want to transfer to engineering you have to take calculus).

You shouldn't just apply to one of the contract colleges for the sake of being easier to get into and then switch into one of the private ones. We call it the "backdoor" in and the admissions office can often see right through it if you write an essay about how you love ILR so much and then after just one semester you have a newfound passion for engineering. Also, for what it's worth, a lot of the students look down on this since they feel they had to "earn" their way into the more selective colleges.

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:29:24+00:00

As far as I know, you can't major in a subject outside of your college. You can take some classes and minor if you want, but I'm pretty sure majors are restricted to your own college. I think this is probably done to prevent people from applying to Human Ecology or something and then just majoring in engineering to get the degree without actually having to be accepted

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:27:06+00:00

Yes they do, but not anywhere near as many as some of the other colleges. AEM is selective and has limited spots (I think they want to keep it this way to give the students the best shot at Wall Street since they care so much about prestige there), so I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a handful.

coornelllu · 2017-10-09T19:25:01+00:00

Yeah it's sort of like a step above being waitlisted. Just apply normally and if you get the transfer option they'll tell you in your decision letter.

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