Congratulations on a good first semester of college.
Why? You can mention this, but the focus should be on why you are transferring…major, other opportunities, etc and why the new school is a good fit and how you will engage if there.
I can’t remember if you applied to any of these schools last year. If so, what were those decisions?
I also remember from your other thread Chance me ED 2 Boston College, US[+Canada] citizen from small Canadian town weak ECs[4.0 UW, Test optional] that some meet full need schools didn’t get close to being affordable but I am not sure what the issue was. Have you run the NPCs for these schools and they look affordable?
Are you ok spending two years at Abingdon and then going to UBC? If you would rather not do that and want to be somewhere else next fall you will need to add some schools with higher acceptance rates.