Transfer chances and advise

gibby
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:59:34 +0000

I thought for sophomore transfer, HS achievements/transcripts pay a significant weight still.

Please revisit the transfer admissions pages of Harvard and Yale and reread what Admissions is looking for from a transfer applicant. Both schools ask for a copy of your HS transcript and SAT/ACT scores. However, neither Harvard or Yale is interested in having your HS guidance counselor submit a secondary school report (SSR), or having your HS teachers write recommendations on your behalf, or about your participation in EC’s in high school. You could have been a stellar student in high school, but that doesn’t tell a college what kind of student you are now at CMU.

Harvard:
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/transferring-harvard-college
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/transferring-harvard-college/transfer-eligibility
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/transferring-harvard-college/transfer-credits

Yale:
http://admissions.yale.edu/transfer
http://admissions.yale.edu/transfer-application-instructions
http://admissions.yale.edu/faq/transfer-program

do you know how I should show my interest in humanities in the absence of classes?

I haven’t a clue besides passion, dedication, and commitment – and that would mean humanities courses and extracurricular activities related to humanities. After all a college isn’t going to take a student’s interest in humanities seriously if they just have taken math and science courses at their current college and haven’t explored, or exhausted, the options in humanities.

After all, I only have 1 semester at CMU

That’s the difficulty of sophomore transfers at every college. So, you’ve got to hit the ground running.