<p>Hello. I currently attend Pomona College as a freshman. It’s been fun, but I’m dissatisfied. It truly isn’t a match for me. Despite the 5C system, I’d like to transfer to a larger, more diverse school. </p>
<p>I was accepted to Rice, Vanderbilt, and Bowdoin last May; if I were to apply as a fall '09 transfer to any of these schools, will this aid or hurt my application?</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend some larger schools that might be academically comparable to Pomona? </p>
<p>I was considering: </p>
<p>Rice
Cornell
U Chicago
U Texas Austin
U North Carolina</p>
<p>My GPA might not be great this semester because of my apathy in Japanese class…, but I had a solid high school record, and a 2200 SAT.</p>
<p>It won’t hurt or help your ability to transfer to these schools, however, it does show that you were a competitive applicant as a freshman and likely are as a transfer too. As a soph transfer, you will be assess more on your HS record and test scores than your college record, see the sticky thread, Transfer Admissions 101 for more info.</p>
<p>You might be jumping from the pan into the fire with a school the size of UT-Austin. How about NU, Tufts, WUSTL, or Emory, as mid-sized schools? You might also think about throwing in Brown or Dartmouth</p>
<p>Hey, I’m also a Pomona freshman who is having second thoughts about my fit here. Any chance you’d be interested in getting together and chatting about it?</p>