Don't Sweat Rejection: TRANSFER!!!

dontno
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:43:22 +0000

I think star paints a very bleak picture of the transfer process.

If you apply for sophomore transfer, they actually have 1.5 semesters. 1 full semester of official grades and over half a semester on your unofficial report (which is signed by your profs). Your grades probably won’t change much from the mid-semester report, so that’s a good amount of data and better than all your AP classes in “predictive” value.

I’m not sure if it matters about EC’s. High school EC’s DO NOT matter for transfers, but you should probably join a couple of clubs just to show you’ll bring something to the campus.

And now for my final, and assuredly most polemical, point. I don’t care how low the percentages are for transfer admissions. The truth is most of the best people were already accepted during their senior year. They probably chose to attend or have absolutely no interest in transferring. So your competition is all the other rejects and community college applicants. If you were at the top of the rejection pile this year (and if you have good scores, it’s probable b/c you’d be surprised how horrible some of the applicants are. I think two years ago 1000 applicants were automatically rejected b/c they didn’t fill out their name or something.), then it shouldn’t be too hard. I met a ton of transfer dummies (out of my 8 fellow transfers in my department, I was one of only 3 to graduate. And one of them struggled mightily. The transfer center was apparently a non-stop party.), so it doesn’t seem that hard to get in.