<p>Hi everyone! I’m a 15 year old student currently enrolled as a sophomore in Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted; if you haven’t heard of it, it’s a school where teenage girls can skip anywhere from 1-4 years of secondary school education. Most girls in the program earn their B.A. or B.S. by the time their peers are graduating high-school. Mary Baldwin is an women’s college located in a small town, making it ideal to keep teenage girls safe and mostly out of trouble. However, its science department is not as good as other, similar liberal arts colleges; we only have one physics professor (who is actually a chemist)! For this reason, I’m looking to transfer out. I’m planning to apply to Dickinson College, UVA, UPenn, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore, MIT, Brown, Carnegie Mellon, and maybe Wellesley.<br>
Rather than post my ECs, standardized test scores, and grades (which are all in the mid 50% of these colleges according to CollegeBoard), I would like to know if anyone here has successfully transferred out of a small college like Mary Baldwin to a more academically rigorous schools. What do you think made you stand out as a transfer student and what did you find difficult about transferring in?
Thank you so much!</p>