Brown Transfer

Reddune
Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:21:09 +0000

I concur with Jmbarr, with a 2.8 it’s impossible. Since you’re a freshman, Brown scrutinizes your high school credentials quite a bit. Your high school credentials weren’t enough to get in you in Brown a year earlier, they won’t help you now. If CM is that brutal to your psychological health, I say (A) you take next semester off for your health, (B) transfer to a less prestigious school (WPI, RPI, RIT, VT) there are ton of less prestigious, but good schools that might fit your need. Go there for a year or so, recover your GPA and then apply to Brown as a Junior transfer. If you’re going for the prestige, right now is not the time to go for it.

If I was an Brown admission officer looking at your application, I would ask myself:
(A) Did this student exhuasted his/her option at his/her previous institution such as utilizing psychological services offer by the school
(B) Is this student transfer for the prestige? If He/She hates CM that much, they have could easily transfer to another school and earn a good degree, why do they choose Brown and not other?
(C) It’s only 4 months into the college year, how much does this person really know his/her campus, should they have given themselves more time to adjust?
(D) Why else would this person want to transfer? If his/her passion is computer programming, and CM is already top notch, why abandon it? Does this person value social atmosphere over academic? If his/her sole reason is social life, then it’s not good enough.
(E) With a 2.8 GPA, what reason do I have that assures me that this person will succeed at Brown academically?

If you can’t answer all those above questions to the satisfaction of Brown, then you won’t get in.