Advice please - Tranferring

taxguy
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:27:11 +0000

LAC= Liberal Arts College.

There are many with good reputations such as Harvey Mudd, Rice etc. Frankly, if you are geting a 4.0, I wouldn’t recommend transferring. Why?


First your GPA from your freshmen year will dissappear and not be counted in the overall GPA by your college
If you are doing that much better than everyone around you, you will probably keep doing that well at RPI. If you go to a different school, you take your chances with the competition.
A high GPA will get you a great job and great chance at grad school.


With that noted, if you still want to transfer, you might consider schools like Cornell, Brown, Harvey Mudd and Rice, as noted above, Williams, Pomona and other Claremont schools, Tufts, Penn, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Northwestern and University of Chicago. This list should get you started.