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Old 07-23-2008, 04:35 PM   #1
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Transfer Question

Hello,
I am very interested in attempting to transfer into Yale from my small southern liberal arts college, where I'm a presidential scholar double majoring in political science and writing.
My high school ACT was a 28
College GPA: 4.0
HS GPA: 3.84
I'm from michigan, but i had to attend college in tennessee because they offered me a better financial aid package (my family is on social security, and my father was killed several years ago in a tractor accident.) I'm a white, female that eventually wants to go to law school.
I originally also went to school down south because i was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that requires I have constant labwork and take arounf 20 pills a day, and because i had family nearby that could take care of me if i got sick, which I did a lot (being on immunosupressant drugs + living in michigan with snow is not good for my health, and the south is warmer.)
I went to a very small high school in the middle of nowhere and graduated in the fifth in my class.
I want to attempt to transfer to either:
Yale,
Cornell,
Wellesley, because of their generous financial aid packages, and the joint programs with teacher licensure along with the academic majors, as well as the challenge of going to a larger school. (My high school was tiny, my current college is tiny, I'm ready for a challenge elsewhere.)
I have tons of extracurriculars.
My high school also only had two AP classes, one of which I took and got a 4.
Would I be laughed out of the admissions office if I applied to transfer to any of these schools? I've visited most of them, and I'm going again this summer to check them out. I just want to know what kind of chances I have. I don't really feel like I could apply to any of these schools because so many other people went to fancier schools and took more AP and IB courses, not to mention they had the option (and funds) to take ACT and SAT prep courses and I didn't.
Please help!
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