Do I have a good shot?

Transfer Students
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<p>I will be applying for a transfer with a 3.62 from a top 5 LAC next year (hist. major). I have a 1360 on my SATs and approx. a 3.85 from highschool. I have not been involved in too many activities in college, but I am active. I want to transfer because my LAC is too small, and it does not have some of the resources that i now realize i want. I plan to apply at Cornell, Brown, Duke, Penn, Columbia, and Dartmouth-(1st choice). What do you think my chances are?</p>

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<p>those are pretty high aspirations…you’re reachin high</p>

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<p>let’s just put it this way…your best chance is probably at Duke…and my friend from seattle who has a 4.4 with a 1580 on his SATs didn’t get in</p>

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<p>From where?</p>

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<p>There are many other mitigating factors that are involved in the process of transfer admissions; to argue that the admissions calculus of Duke is confined in scope to those two factors is not wise.</p>

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<p>i’m transfering from carleton</p>

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<p>Caliboi, </p>

<p>As a current Carleton student, I totally agree with your reasons for transferring. Carleton and Northfield can be totally suffocating. I applied to some of the same schools you plan on applying and I can’t wait to get an acceptance letter. Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>Caliboi, I was asking nahrafsfa where his friend who was rejected from Duke was applying from. Anyway, my estimation is that you do indeed have a reasonable shot (I reserve to use the term “good shot” only in relation to predictable processes). I encourage you to make an effort to get more involved, and to propound your reasons for transferring more. For example, what particular resources do you find lacking at Carleton that you think are ubiquitous at these larger schools? I would also advise you to research each institution that has piqued your interest, and to confirm your suppositions about their resources and student life. Not only will this research confirm or rebut your intuition, but it should provide you with compelling reasons to transfer. I cannot earnestly believe that Columbia and Dartmouth will blithely accept you on the grounds that you want to go to a bigger and more abounding school. However, explaining that your research endeavors have revealed that Columbia’s library has XYZ journals of history, which are lacking in your current school, or that the core requirements at Carleton are too restrictive, and that Brown’s open curriculum will provide you with the access to and breadth of history courses that strike your fancy, is likely to make you a more desirable and legitimate candidate for transfer admissions. Clearly, neither reason mentioned above is a sufficient reason for transfer in itself, but if you can explain in detail a few particular motives, I think you will greatly increase your chances. Visit these schools, sit in on classes, talk with professors, obtain course catalogs – do your homework. You have decent stats, all you need now are good reasons to transfer, besides “It’s Columbia.”</p>