| There are so few spots -- it's really competitive. All the external transfers I know had near-perfect GPA's coming in (a lot of the external transfers I've met had like 3.9 and 4.0 GPA's), and were pretty active in some way over at their other college. It's certainly possible to transfer externally but it's just extremely difficult -- it's like going through freshman admissions and then cutting those "pre-admitted" down to an even smaller group. I can only think of maybe one external transfer that seemed to be an exception, in the sense that he/she didn't do any activities or have a relatively competitive GPA (maybe like 3.4 or 3.5).
I mean, as an internal transfer, I go to a MGMT course that is made specifically for all internal/external transfer students, and most of these guys are the same people I've noticed from freshman year (I can only think of maybe... 4 externals off the top of my head from my class that I've met personally. One from UMich, one from NYU, one from Georgetown, and one from Arkansas). There just aren't that many spots for externals but it doesn't hurt to try. |