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<p>Bad news for me. I’m planning on maybe reapplying to UChicago and/or MIT 
and they compare to Ivies in selectivity. Well, at least I have to second half of senior year to work for me.</p>
<p>iabass, I only applied to Cornell of the schools I plan to apply to. The reason being, I didn’t believe I would get in considering my rank from junior year was 25 out of 202, and we don’t re-rank mid year. I have made a marked jump in academics this year while taking a much harder course load (4 AP’s out of 6 classes). </p>
<p>As for reasons to transfer, I would want to attend Grad School likely for poly sci, and Delaware isn’t exactly known for the field. Also I went to Delaware mainly due to the fact that I got the GT to Cornell and thought it would be better to save money and transfer to somewhere I want to be than to go to Boston College which was my other option but was much more expensive.</p>
<p>going to a UChicago
had a 3.8 HS GPA
2070 SAT</p>
<p>Hoping to transfer into Harvard or Columbia</p>
<p>What makes you want to leave?</p>
<p>As I read through the thread, I see more and more people who are sore about getting rejected to their dream school during freshman admissions and want to cling onto a second chance. The reality is admissions becomes much more difficult the second time around. Most top 15 colleges have transfer acceptance rates of less than 10%, and most of the applicants to those schools still have very high statistics, with at least over a 3.7 grade point average in college. The main role transfer students have is to fill up a school’s quota so they can receive a larger endowment from their financial sources. But since the most prestigious schools have very competitive freshman admissions to begin with, they often over-enroll too many freshmen anyway, leading to very few spots for transfers.</p>
<p>You guys need to take what your high school grades give you and move on with your lives. Maybe after final grades first semester, you might start considering a transfer into a more prestigious school. But until then, your chances remain the same as they were in senior year of high school. You should aspire to get high grades in college, transfer or no transfer. The way I see things, applying for transfer is a privilege of strong academic performance. And college courses are supposed to be harder or equal in difficulty to ones in high school. There is no reason to assume you will do better in more challenging academics, unless you have unique circumstances to justify your high school grades. Just wait until you meet your first bad or unfair professor in college. One B will drop your chances like a stone in water.</p>
<p>I applied for sophomore transfer because I felt my school was a terrible fit for me. But I only considered the move after receiving my first semester final grades, which were perfect. And when I applied, I considered both safety, match, and reach schools to ensure I would be leaving. Coming from a top 50 liberal arts college, I managed to secure an offer all my safety and match schools, and a lone reach school in Vanderbilt. However, I am a minority at Vanderbilt, and not at the other 6 top 20 schools I applied to, which all rejected me. And Vanderbilt is the most transfer-friendly of all the top 20 schools, boasting a transfer acceptance rate twice as large as their freshman acceptance rate. Most of the other top 20 schools have admissions in reverse, with transfer acceptance rates being much lower.</p>
<p>This post is meant to sound disheartening and depressing, but I do believe what I am saying is true. The odds are very against transfer students, and they get worse with time as colleges over-enroll too many freshmen. My concluding advice is to be realistic about transferring. A lot of you guys seem to be living in a fantasy, believing you can turn around your fate after just one semester in college. You can either wise up to the truth now, or have your dreams crushed a second time. Of course, I know some transfers do succeed at landing a spot at their prestigious dream school, but they are far fewer in number than the many students who are forced to remain at their current college. Just read the story of this poster. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1348949-rejected-depleted-now-what.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1348949-rejected-depleted-now-what.html</a></p>
<p>I always tell myself that I can be happy wherever I go. I don’t think that my happiness or success is dependent on where I go. However, I still want to give myself a chance at more selective schools and I’m not just thinking of reapplying to schools I was rejected. Yeah, I know it’s really difficult, which is why I’ve pretty much not given a thought when it comes to applying to transfer into an Ivy. Well, I still somewhat cling to MIT and in no way did I think I deserved to get in as a freshman applicant. However, I know I’m doing the right things and I believe that regardless of where I go, if I just work hard on and enjoy what I do, everything will fall into place eventually.</p>
<p>If I legitimately absolutely HATE Umass Amherst, I’ll definitely look for less selective schools. I shouldn’t let myself suffer. </p>
<p>The thing that bothers me is that I always somehow expected to go to Harvard since I was a little kid since my dad got his masters there and both my parents were at the top of their high school classes and very well educated in college. Except that academically, I was usually good through high school, however, I was somewhat of a late bloomer. I didn’t really get a craving to learn and read until right at the end of my junior year. I realized my high school wasn’t giving me the environment I wanted and I’m afraid of another 4 years of going to school where the majority only want to stay just so they can say they graduated and move on with their lives by getting a better paid job.</p>
<p>I am doing it for research purposes. My current school does not lab dedicated to robotics. In fact, most of the research done here are not relevant to my interests. I chose to go here for financial reasons.</p>
<p>^ Yeah, I am paying almost nothing for the school I am going to attend.</p>
<p>Looking at the actual bill and the financial aid package that they are giving me… I am in the net of about $2,400 a year. That technically means I am getting paid to go to school.</p>
<p>^ Well, that’s good. Especially since you plan on transferring and there are limited scholarships and financial aid for transfers. I am going to my state flagship so of course it will not be very expensive.</p>
<p>How bad does it look to colleges if you retake ACTs as a college student? I am not happy with a 29 at all, but since ACTs are supposed to be predictors of college success, will retaking them as a college student be frowned upon?</p>
<p>I won’t be retaking it, as you’ve said, it’s meant for a specific period in your life.</p>
<p>In my opinion, it wouldn’t hurt to retake it, but since you’re taking it as a college student, I think the colleges might expect higher scores. Make sure you can improve substantially.</p>
<p>Attending: University of Miami
GPA: 3.5 (senior gpa was 4.0)
SAT: 2160 (R:670 W:700 M:790)
Colleges I wish to transfer to: Columbia</p>
<p>Columbia has always been my dream school. My parents graduated from there, and they told me how great NYC is and the campus life. Since I got 4.0 in my senior year, I want to test my academic potential by applying to Columbia. However UMiami seems like a great school. I should try to see whether the school is a good match for me.</p>
<p>One question, should I retake my SAT? 2160 is not bad, but I think it’s gonna sit at the top end of the Columbia admission. Any advice will be helpful.</p>
<p>You’re overall academics seem very similar to mine (that’s about where I think my unweighted GPA is once you average all of high school) and your SAT is only 10 points better than mine. Personally, I’m leaning towards not retaking the SAT because SAT is designed to be taken by high school students and is meant to predict your performance in college. Once you’re in college, your actual performance speaks for itself. </p>
<p>Another thing, 2160 isn’t that bad even for the Ivy League. It’s somewhat on the lower end of the middle 50 percent for freshman accepted students, but I find that they look at GPA way more than they do at SATs even for freshman applicants. You’re obviously inclined towards math and that individual score carries a lot of weight as well.</p>
<p>Hello.
I am a current rising freshman. </p>
<p>College I’ll be attending: California Community college
High school GA 2.9
ACT: 24
Colleges I wish to transfer to: Cornell-ILR, JHU, Richmond, UCB, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSD, UNC-CH</p>
<p>College I’ll be attending: NYU
High School GPA: 3.65 (4.0 junior and senior year)
Class Rank: 18/416
SAT: 2220/2400 superscored (R - 690, M - 790, W - 740)
SAT II: Lit - 660, Math II - 740, US History - 720
Colleges I wish to transfer to: Penn CAS</p>
<p>Reasons for Transfer:
-Penn has a PPE major
-I love medium-sized cities such as Philadelphia (NYC feels like a prison)
-Penn has an amazing campus filled with ambitious students and abundant opportunities</p>
<p>What’s PPE?</p>
<p>Good luck, you have great high school stats. If you have a good college GPA and participate in activities, you will have a great chance of getting into Penn.</p>
<p>Question - do you find Penn too pre-professional?</p>
<p>@iborpastan philosophy, political science, and economics</p>
<p>Well, since I’m really passionate about going into International Law (which obviously means I need to prepare for law school) I actually find the pre-professionalism at Penn to be helpful and motivating. I noticed that many students there already know what they want to do in life, and that attracts me to the university.</p>