Transfer Help

Transfer Students
1

Hey everybody, I’m a longtime lurker and was hoping to get some input on what I should do. I dropped out of high school and got my GED due to bad life choices. I’m about to graduate from a college in Florida and now deciding which schools I should apply to. To give you an idea of how far along I am, I’ve completed the following coursework:

Organic Chemistry 1/2 + lab
Calculus 1/2
Bio 1/2 + lab
General Chemistry 1/2 + lab
The rest being courses like English, humanities, psychology, etc.

Here are my stats/EC’s:
3.825 cGPA
4.0 sGPA
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Research in Carbon/Boron Nitride Nanotubes
Veteran Helpline Volunteer (~1,000 hours, Received a Presidential Volunteer Service Award - Gold Level)
Hospital Volunteer (~500 hours)

What kind of schools outside of Florida do you think I should be looking at? Also I’m a URM and I see everyone here says it helps but I’m not sure how much it could help for a transfer student.

2

Lots of prestigious privates require the SAT or ACT even for transfer.
Other schools such as USC or Cornell do not require test scores.

3

I’ve spoken to a lot of schools bomerr and they let me know that because of the amount of credits I have the Admissions offices tell me that they would not require me to have them (some schools I’ve spoken to include: Notre Dame, University of Miami, FIU, University of Florida, Northwestern).

I was wondering what my chances were at a Top 25 school and whether if it would pretty much be a lottery or would I be flat out wasting my time.

4

Mid-tier schools or lower-end schools generally waive the requirement for transfer. Mostly really prestigious ones such as Stanford, Yale, Columbia, etc require test scores.

Notre Dame, Miami, Northwestern, are all really different areas. my 2 cents is just apply to schools you would actually want to attend.

5

Here’s my list bomerr:

Vanderbuilt, Notre Dame, Northwestern, UM/UF/FIU (I’m a Florida resident).

Most schools I’m wondering about which I’m not sure if it’s worth it: John Hopkins, Dartmouth/Cornell (waive reqs), Brown.

I realize the stats are low for transfers but I don’t want to apply if it’s all people from other Ivy’s/Top 25 trying to transfer as well.

6

Also how skewed do you feel that ~20% is skewed by Cornell’s transfer rate?

7

I know a girl who transferred into Cornell last year. If you have a good set of ECs (e.g. are involved in student govt at your CC, in a few different clubs, got some volunteer exp, etc.) and you stress the right things in your essays then you have a shot of getting into an Ivy.