<p>stoneimmaculate, i know what you are trying to say and i agree with you, but i’m just hoping for that little chance to hopefully come in my favor. How hard is it to transfer to JHU? (thats probably my top realistic choice).</p>
<p>I’m not trying to crush your hopes or anything, in fact my top choice is just a dream that I will even get accepted(Uchicago)</p>
<p>I can’t speak from experience but I think that JHU is probably up there with Wustl and Northwestern as in they aren’t like the elite schools who want you to have a flawless record and 99.999% percentile test scores. I’d say with hard work and solid essays you have a pretty respectable shot.</p>
<p>well, I am currently waiting on 3 other schools to give me my verdict but I’m not feeling very confident. I am not giving up though. Instead I have started my college search once again, this time looking at more “outside the box” sorts of schools. any help with that subject would be much appreciated. (PM me if possible)</p>
<p>still wish good luck to all who are trying to change their educational careers around.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John’s_College%2C_U.S[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John’s_College%2C_U.S</a>.</p>
<p>St. John’s college is a little known LAC which emphasizes greatly the liberal arts education. I’ve heard from Uchicago student’s that their “core” system is like a watered down version of this school’s curriculum; the “core” on steroids if you will. It’s got an 80% acceptance rate or something near that but the only thing is that transfers have to start as freshmen. </p>
<p>I wish I had heard about this school a long time ago, as I would probably be there now.</p>
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Wow, they put Chicago’s core to shame. I wish they had a more flexible transfer policy or I’d be there.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. I really wish I had known about the school a year ago as I wouldn’t mind being a second year freshman, a 21 year old freshman with 2 years of college already is pushing it for me lol. It’s really a shame that the school is so obscure(at least to me and on these boards, maybe not in academic circles) because it really does seem to be quite a unique and interesting school.</p>
<p>the funny thing is that I only heard about this school during my interview at UChicago while discussing the core. My interviewer said, jokingly, that the UChicago core is for kids that couldn’t hack it at St. John’s.</p>
<p>Why would you want to go somewhere with such a strict curriculum?</p>
<p>My idea of an undergraduate “education” is much different than most. I don’t think that specialization in a particular major matters much. It is much more important to me to have a very broad, liberal arts education which emphasizes the western canon. This is one of the biggest things that drew me to UChicago–the core.</p>
<p>I think that the St. John’s curriculum is much closer to that of Oxford and Cambridge’s many years ago, where you didn’t have a major and everyone studied the same things. I think UChicago had this(no specific majors) somewhere around the early 50’s but they dropped it because it was unpopular with donating alumni.</p>
<p>My rationale is similar to stoneimmaculate’s and probably many other UChicago applicants. Higher education, in general, is becoming too provincial and vocational/professional. People are becoming doctors and lawyers more frequently, yet have no intellectual curiosity or scope outside their narrow specialty. What a horrible way to live.</p>
<p>can anyone tell me what to do to sucessfully transfer to a very competitive school like stanford ,upenn, or cornell with a bad high school record? ( I could really use ajp87’s and Jokwon’s and frrrhp’s advice). I’m still a senior in hs and haven’t even gotten into a college yet but i have to start planning now.</p>
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But consider people who have specific academic interests. For instance, I want to double major in English and Art History. I don’t want to have to take four years of math. I’ve already taken it in high school. I don’t like it. It doesn’t interest me. I know what already. So why should I have to take more than three hours of it? I would be wasting my time with something that bores me to tears while I could be fulfilling my “intellectual curiosity” with things I am actually interested in.</p>
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I’m not advocating breadth as a substitute for specialty. Nor am I advocating an abolishment to majors (I’m considering double majoring myself); you can specialize in whatever you wish, however, my philosophy is: breadth in addition to specialty. Yes, St. Johns is an extreme example, but Chicago isn’t. I think, ideally, you should be required to take one year of advanced math with the intent of becoming liberally educated–that’s not asking too much.</p>
<p>totally agree Caillebotte, unfortunately our idea of education isn’t very mainstream :D</p>
<p>Haha no, it’s not. I hope we both get into Chicago :)</p>
<p>Well in that case, I don’t know any school that doesn’t have such basic requirements, except for Brown.</p>
<p>Yes, but these basic requirements are often way too diluted.</p>
<p>Wow, this thread has my name written all over it. In high school I took some difficult classes, but I was a major slacker. I graduated with GPA of around 2.0, but I did score 1430 on my SATs (when it was out of 1600). After high school I decided to go the military route. </p>
<p>After a couple of years serving on active duty I was given the option to get out of active duty and serve out the rest of my contract in the reserves, so I would be able to go to school or work full time in the civilian world. </p>
<p>I decided to go to a community college, where I got straight A’s in my first 2 semesters. After a year and a half I figured I was ready to transfer. I applied as a history major to USC, Cornell, Tulane, Wake Forest, and Pepperdine. </p>
<p>I was accepted to all of the schools I applied to accept Cornell. As of now, I am about to finish my first year at USC, where I have now changed my major to linguistics. As far as my grades here at SC, they have dropped a little bit, but that was to be expected.</p>
<p>I had a pretty mediocre GPA and high school (3.2), and although I scored well on the ACT, it wasn’t enough to compensate for it. I was just enjoying myself, not partying or drinking or anything, but spending a lot of time with my friends and ex girl friend, and doing my own personal reading instead of homework. I didn’t really think about college because high school and childhood was something I didn’t want to end, and I certainly wasn’t going to taint the last months of it by worrying about college. </p>
<p>Anyway, I applied to three schools: U of Minnesota, U of Wisc-Madison, and UPenn. I was denied at all but the U of M. Once I was in college I kind of picked up the attitude that it was now time to buckle down and get good grades if I wanted opportunities in the future and to be able to take care of my family. I had a 3.95 after my first year.<br>
I applied as a transfer student after one semester to NYU, and after two semesters to Madison, and was accepted at both. I ended up saying no to NYU so I could study in Ecuador, and eventually transferred to Madison. Unfortunately, I’ve ran into some personal problems here and have applied to UPenn again. I’m hoping for some more luck.</p>
<p>My hopeful transfer story:
Great Highschool GPA and Rank/Less-stellar SAT + AMAZING College GPA at Top 20/25 school= Transfer Admission into Amherst or Williams</p>
<p>???Ehh??? It could happen, right? Please?</p>
<p>so i just got into cornell and tufts, but my ultimate goal is columbia engineering school (cuz its easier to get in). is it easier for me to transfer from cornell or tufts after my freshman year?
so i can decide thank you!</p>