<p>I just read an article that recommended communicating with professors at the colleges you want to transfer to. </p>
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<p>Has anyone done this? I’m not even sure what I would say if I contacted someone.</p>
<p>Where was this article? Who wrote it? </p>
<p>At any rate, it certainly can’t hurt. I think the way too approach it (assuming you are not some published author or something and would have that to talk about, lol) would be to id profs who are teaching/researching topics of interest to you. Ask such things as (if they are not obvious from the website/course catalog), will they be teaching x course next term? do they have any students assisting them in research? could you visit them for a brief chat when you are visiting the school and/or sit in on one of their classes?</p>
<p>But I don’t think you should feel pressure to do this. I imagine it is quite rare.</p>
<p>Article: [Can</a> I transfer to an Ivy League school?](<a href=“http://www.supercollege.com/ask.cfm?loc=4&page=3&story=433&topic=17&cart=]Can”>http://www.supercollege.com/ask.cfm?loc=4&page=3&story=433&topic=17&cart=)</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. Well, other than that they graduated from Harvard in 1998, I don’t find anything on the site which gives their credentials for offering advice on admissions/transfer admissions.</p>
<p>I don’t agree with some of what they say in that “article”, such as that “you need to be the top student in your field at your current college.” I don’t think that’s realistic or necessary.</p>
<p>So… it certainly can’t hurt to do what they advise but I have no idea on what basis they advise it. I could be wrong and maybe others will come on here and say they’ve been contacting profs and it was their key to success. I’m not aware of any who have done that.</p>