Is Cornell guaranteed transfer considered an acceptance?

[Anonymous]

https://youtu.be/ulMwqfjYWso

This student was rejected from several schools including Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins and a few others. However got into NYU, Full Ride to BU, and guaranteed transfer at Cornell.

So would you all consider guarantee transfer to an ivy an acceptance if it was your DC?

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

I would, but technically it is not an acceptance. Schools do this (often) precisely because they do like the kid, but do not want to consider him an acceptance, because the kid's scores would bring their averages down. Of course I cannot say for sure that is the case here.

I got a guaranteed transfer into Cornell and went to NYU freshman year. I ended up staying at NYU and chose not to transfer. I actually didn't love love love NYU, but it really just seemed like too much of a hassle. I just didn't have a transfer mentality.

But... What does it matter? What matters is where your degree is from. It's still a great accomplishment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would, but technically it is not an acceptance. Schools do this (often) precisely because they do like the kid, but do not want to consider him an acceptance, because the kid's scores would bring their averages down. Of course I cannot say for sure that is the case here.

I got a guaranteed transfer into Cornell and went to NYU freshman year. I ended up staying at NYU and chose not to transfer. I actually didn't love love love NYU, but it really just seemed like too much of a hassle. I just didn't have a transfer mentality.

But... What does it matter? What matters is where your degree is from. It's still a great accomplishment.

I thought what matters is what you learned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would, but technically it is not an acceptance. Schools do this (often) precisely because they do like the kid, but do not want to consider him an acceptance, because the kid's scores would bring their averages down. Of course I cannot say for sure that is the case here.

I got a guaranteed transfer into Cornell and went to NYU freshman year. I ended up staying at NYU and chose not to transfer. I actually didn't love love love NYU, but it really just seemed like too much of a hassle. I just didn't have a transfer mentality.

But... What does it matter? What matters is where your degree is from. It's still a great accomplishment.

I thought what matters is what you learned.

okay well everything you learn at college is available for free at your public library. Why go?

[Anonymous]

If it's full-ride BU vs. full-pay Cornell, no.

[Anonymous]

Oh for God’s sake, who cares

[Anonymous]

My daughter's best friend had this. She went to Michigan and never transferred. Kids make friends and usually get a bf/gf or at least a big crush by the end of freshman year.

Unless you have good friends at Cornell, it's not exactly fun to transfer anywhere as a second year. Generally, the only teens with a lot of friends at Cornell (or any Ivy) are boarding school alums and maybe like Stuy and TJ kids? Maybe Sidwell too, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would, but technically it is not an acceptance. Schools do this (often) precisely because they do like the kid, but do not want to consider him an acceptance, because the kid's scores would bring their averages down. Of course I cannot say for sure that is the case here.

I got a guaranteed transfer into Cornell and went to NYU freshman year. I ended up staying at NYU and chose not to transfer. I actually didn't love love love NYU, but it really just seemed like too much of a hassle. I just didn't have a transfer mentality.

But... What does it matter? What matters is where your degree is from. It's still a great accomplishment.

I thought what matters is what you learned.

okay well everything you learn at college is available for free at your public library. Why go?

Because of professors?

[Anonymous]

That's interesting. I went to Cornell, and at the time, most of the kids who came in under guaranteed transfer were at a SUNY for their first year. Many of them made a good group of friends at Cornell through clubs and activities, no issues. I was not part of Greek life, though, so perhaps it is different if that is your social interest - cannot speak to that.

[Anonymous]

Cornell does not guarantee admissions under their "guaranteed" transfer program, only that a student will be allowed to apply for transfer through a special admissions process and will **likely** be admitted if the student has a sufficient GPA and has taken appropriate classes to be working toward graduation at Cornell. What's cool about Cornell is that the high school student receiving a letter for the program does not have to accept/decline at that time and can consider whether to apply to transfer after a year at another school.

[Anonymous]

What's the min GPA they want you to maintain freshman year? 3.0 or 3.5? I assume they only look at first semester, since the application deadline is likely in Jan or Feb?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell does not guarantee admissions under their "guaranteed" transfer program, only that a student will be allowed to apply for transfer through a special admissions process and will **likely** be admitted if the student has a sufficient GPA and has taken appropriate classes to be working toward graduation at Cornell. What's cool about Cornell is that the high school student receiving a letter for the program does not have to accept/decline at that time and can consider whether to apply to transfer after a year at another school.

This. Cornell was a land-grant school. Some of its colleges are public. Like other publics, a possible admission program is offered, but you do have to jump through hoops and get a particular GPA, which being a college GPA, sounds easy because we are used to hearing of 4.47s, but may actually be difficult because it's usually a 3.5-3.7 range (average) on a 4.0 scale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cornell does not guarantee admissions under their "guaranteed" transfer program, only that a student will be allowed to apply for transfer through a special admissions process and will **likely** be admitted if the student has a sufficient GPA and has taken appropriate classes to be working toward graduation at Cornell. What's cool about Cornell is that the high school student receiving a letter for the program does not have to accept/decline at that time and can consider whether to apply to transfer after a year at another school.

This may be true but I'm really getting at what's considered ivy plus schools when Cornell gives students a form of an acceptance offer yet said student is rejected by so many other schools. I live in Ga and I've seen several students get guaranteed transfer at Cornell while being rejected from other highly selective schools like Emory for example. And I thoroughly understand how the process works as Gatech also has guaranteed transfer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cornell does not guarantee admissions under their "guaranteed" transfer program, only that a student will be allowed to apply for transfer through a special admissions process and will **likely** be admitted if the student has a sufficient GPA and has taken appropriate classes to be working toward graduation at Cornell. What's cool about Cornell is that the high school student receiving a letter for the program does not have to accept/decline at that time and can consider whether to apply to transfer after a year at another school.

This may be true but I'm really getting at what's considered ivy plus schools when Cornell gives students a form of an acceptance offer yet said student is rejected by so many other schools. I live in Ga and I've seen several students get guaranteed transfer at Cornell while being rejected from other highly selective schools like Emory for example. And I thoroughly understand how the process works as Gatech also has guaranteed transfer.

Probably because they are New York students.