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Seems to be very hostile to transfers, are there any advantages to transferring there?

How are they hostile to transfers?

Brut wrote:How are they hostile to transfers?

Can't participate in OCI.

scottidsntknow wrote:

Brut wrote:How are they hostile to transfers?

Can't participate in OCI.

Yikes.

Also no transfer write-on competition.

If you are going to be paying sticker and you're shut out of OCI, what is the benefit of transferring into Cornell?

Lovely winter?

Chrstgtr wrote:If you are going to be paying sticker and you're shut out of OCI, what is the benefit of transferring into Cornell?

I guess there would be a benefit if you're paying sticker at a TTT. You'd be mass mailing with Cornell on your resume, and presumably Cornell has a better LRAP (I don't know if schools beyond the T30 even really have LRAP).

scottidsntknow wrote:

Brut wrote:How are they hostile to transfers?

Can't participate in OCI.

So I recently read a thread where a Cornell transfer claimed they did allow transfers to participate in AJF as long as they were admitted before the registration date (which although rare, does occur for some applicants). So it's not that they don't "allow" them to participate, but rather the acceptances typically occur after AJF registration. Regardless I think it's something you want to ask their adcomm personally since policies are always changing.

rahulg91 wrote:

scottidsntknow wrote:

Brut wrote:How are they hostile to transfers?

Can't participate in OCI.

So I recently read a thread where a Cornell transfer claimed they did allow transfers to participate in AJF as long as they were admitted before the registration date (which although rare, does occur for some applicants). So it's not that they don't "allow" them to participate, but rather the acceptances typically occur after AJF registration. Regardless I think it's something you want to ask their adcomm personally since policies are always changing.

FWIW, at my school there were some transfers admitted after the deadline for OCI who then mass-mailed the firms participating. There were a surprising number of interviews that came out of doing that.

Honestly, there's absolutely no reason why Cornell should have this policy, even if bidding has already happened for 1Ls. At some schools, let's just say equal to or better than Cornell, transfer students have a separate write-on competition, and a number of OCI slots are actually reserved for transfer students because they bid after the other 1Ls, just a couple days before OCI. I've heard that because of this it's easier to get some firms as a transfer student!

If you're going to be paying sticker as a transfer student, you should go to a school that actually treats its transfer students well. If Cornell doesn't let transfers join journals and participate in OCI, I can imagine many other ways in which the transfer experience is bad as well.

You could, in theory, participate in AJF. There would be two ways. Either 1) you get admitted before registration deadline (as noted, rare). 2) you can mass mail and show up at our OCI. This is encouraged, from what I hear - and employers are willing to do it (I hear). We also have secondary OCI's and regional stuff (DC, Boston) that transfers definitely participate in. '


Also, you can join a journal as a transfer. The Journal of Law and Public Policy allows "work-on" during the year. Basically, you do work for them (i have no idea what it entails) and you can join after x amount of time.

But I still echo cornell does not make it 'easy' compared to other t14s