How are transfers into Brown?

Ranka
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:41:20 +0000

I have a couple of questions about transferring into Brown from UCSB. Anyone is free to answer them, though I would appreciate if some transfer admits could input their opinions and experiences.

Why Transfer?
There are multiple reasons as to why I want to do this, but the main ones being my hate for GEs, an actual campus life after freshman year since Id be moving back home and communting after this year, and I also feel that by not leaving my hometown to go to college like the rest of my friends I am missing out on some key aspects of college life. In the future I plan to apply to medical school and feel that graduating from Brown would give me a better chance at getting into medical school than graduating from UCSB would.

->What do I information do I need to give Brown about my high school?

I ask this because I hope to be able to put my botched high school GPA (only a 3.7 unweighted cumulative though I got a 4.0 unweighted last year and 3.86 UW the year before but my older years suck), crappy SAT (only 770M/600W/630R, though my subject tests are fine 770Chem/740 M2/ 780 BioM) and lack of ECs behind me this year in college in order to shoot again for Brown.

This year I will be enrolled at UCSB and will be taking Honors Chem, Microeconomy, Japanese, and Calculus 3B and 3C maybe Physics too. I plan to get As in most if not all of these classes and I plan to join a couple of clubs to show that I have changed quite a bit from my high school years.

->How will my college professors react to my choice of applying for a transfer? Will they be helpful and write positive rec letters or will they flunk me and write horrible letters of rec in order to sabotage me? Is it worth the gamble to apply for transfer?

-> I have read that Brown luckily is the most lenient of all high tier schools with transfers. What were their actual rates of transfer this year?

-> If you were in my place would you transfer? If not why not? I know that the friendships I build during freshman year would fall apart but from my view right now the benefits out weigh the costs.

Thank you beforehand!