<p>wesleyan university’s transfer student application page states:
Most transfer applicants are ambivalent about leaving their current school and every college or university has its good and bad aspects (even ours). Students graduating from a two-year school may be less ambivalent, of course! In any case, do not be afraid to acknowledge positive aspects of the school you may be ready to leave, even as you explain your desire to move on.</p>
<p>does admissions factor levels of ambivalance into acceptance decisions? how much?
because i am not ambivalant at all. i could not stand to stay at my current school after this year, and after a lot of figuring out what i want and need in my education and researching many colleges out there (hoping so hard to find a different great fit besides wesleyan) it seems wesleyan is the only school that most fully meets my wants and needs.<br>
would this have any chance of beating out another transfer student who may have much better SAT scores and high school records, or even better EC’s in college, but is perhaps less determined that wesleyan is right for them?</p>
<p>Not speaking as transfer experienced person, but nevertheless, I would like to point out that being so negative would only hurt yourself. There are always positives out of every situation. I would try to include things like what you’ve learned as a person since you’ve been to your school, things you’ve encountered, things you’ve noticed. Things you’ve learned from a school you can’t stand so much shows that you’re still open minded in terms of being a mature, young adult who wants to learn at new school.</p>
<p>Of course! I didn’t mean to sound so negative, I can see how that could be read that way, though. I definitely think there are good aspects to my school, and I have learned quite a lot from the experience. Unfortunately one of the things I learned is that I don’t want to go to school here. All I was saying is that I am not at all ambivalent about transferring, that’s much different than simply being negative. I attend a school that is perfect for a lot of people, but I have found that I am not one of them, and feel Wesleyan would be one of the best fits out there. From the passage I read on the website, it just seems I might be more intent on transferring than other students, not more negative.</p>
<p>Is this one of the essays? If it is, I suggest you use your current school’s negative and turn them into a positive for Wesleyan. Like lets say, you dont have any internship opportunities at your current school. In the wesleyan essay, you should mention something like “At Wesleyan, I will be able to explore different research/internship opportunities that I am not able to do at my current school.”</p>
<p>Wow liz, I really am not qualified to give any advice at all. Even bad advice. I am in New York, though, and my wife and I will visit Wes next week, so if you like I can describe the boarded up buildings and leafless trees to you when we get back. I did think of one story when I read through your situation. There is a girl I shared a class with last spring who is a music major and who’d dropped out of a private liberal arts type school a few years previous. I wish I could remember the school’s name, but I’m thinking second tier. I guess she left despite the collective disapproval of her family and friends. She had a huge financial package, and I believe the program she was in had a good reputation, but in her experience it was awful. She came to City College for a semester or too and got accepted to Berkeley. I think that she really struggled with explaining her situation in a way that didn’t make her come off like a flake. Apparently she hit the right note. Now if only I could tell you how she did that. Oh well. Good luck.</p>