Planning ahead to transfer: Is there a smart strategy?

bird_rock
Fri, 06 May 2011 19:03:12 +0000

My son is a HS junior and Texas A&M is clearly his first choice. I’d say he has about a 50/50 chance of getting in based on his grades, SATs, etc. Right now he favors it enough that, if not accepted, he would even consider choosing his college based on how it might help him to transfer after freshman year.

If he still feels this way a year from now, is there a smart way to go about this? Are there any feeder colleges that are known to have a good relationship with A&M? In New York, yeah I should mention that we’re OOS, it’s very easy to transfer from one SUNY to another if you have good grades for your first semester (at least that’s what I’ve heard). Does A& M have anything like that?