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Transfer Students
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<p>but I’m posting it here since I’m going to be a transfer student.</p>

<p>I really didn’t open my eyes to the opportunities I had in high school until I was in college, and that’s also when I was diagnosed for ADHD which had a big underlining, negative effect on my grades up until last year. I ended my first college year with +.6 more G.P.A than what I averaged in H/S, but I’m depressed that I wasted the opportunity to attend a university like Stanford or MIT in high school by not caring about my academic performance in H/S. Going on this website and seeing how over-achieving every student is going to a prestigious school or has decked out application stats just makes me think how awesome mine would be if I had parents that pushed me to over-acheive, or at least cared about my own education and extra-curricular activities.</p>

<p>I still have this magnetic desire to prove that I could have been one of these students by transferring to the best school possible. As a CA applicant, I want to go Berkeley not because they are highly-renowned in my chosen major (which they are) but because by attending one of the best schools in the country I am validating that I am smart enough to go to a school like that and to prove everybody wrong that I’m not stupid or a clown (in H/S I gave off this impression). I still try to ignite the hope that I could still transfer to Stanford or Harvard or MIT or Carnegie Mellon but I’d have to be some kind of Incredible Hulk student in order to do that. </p>

<p>One of my favorite TV shows is King of the Hill, and there is a character called Connie who is a girl with stereotypical Asian parents who ridiculously push her to do amazing things and get amazing grades. I really wish I had parents that made these kinds of decisions for me, but instead I had parents that didn’t care about college nor my academics and it kills me every day that I could have been a student like that if only I was put in a position to succeed. </p>

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<p>Do you have a question?</p>

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<p>You’ve gotta take a lot of what you see on this site with a grain of salt. The high school students with 4.0 uw GPA, 36/2400 test scores, play 9 instruments, lead 4 student organizations, cured 4 types of cancer, eliminated hunger in Africa…etc, do NOT represent the majority of the students in the world. You do not need to attend a HYPSM school to prove that you’re “smart enough.” There is entirely too much worship of the “top” schools by many people here. Reading through a lot of threads on here, you get the impression that many people feel as though they’re a failure if they don’t get into one of the “top 10” schools in the country.</p>

<p>There are hundreds of college in the US that are excellent schools, and at which you will get a top notch education. You can’t change the past. You can regret some of your actions in high school all you want, but it won’t change it. Did you have fun in high school? In the long run, your high school GPA is going to be meaningless. Once you finish college, most employers aren’t going to care how you did in high school, and in most fields, having gone to Harvard or MIT isn’t going to give you any kind of significant advantage over anyone else. If you’re planning on going to grad school, your choice in grad school will carry much more weight than where you did your undergrad.</p>

<p>You can still apply for transfer, but transfer to those schools is very selective. It’s a long shot for basically anyone. The point is though, you should not feel like a failure because you aren’t going to Harvard or MIT.</p>