ACCEPTED TO MY #1 SCHOOL, THE UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND!! Deposit is submitted 
Congrats to everyone else!
Finally able to do this now that I’ve made a decision . . .
College: CC
Transferring as: Junior (non-trad)
GPA: 3.87 current institution, 3.0ish cumulative
Major(s): Interior Arch/Design with Anthro/Journo minors
First generation college student: Yes
Ethnicity/Gender: White female
Letters of Rec: 2, from advisor and professor
Essay: Yes, quite good
ECs: PTK
Applied: Washington State, Idaho, RIT, PhilaU, Chatham, Suffolk, VCU, College of the Atlantic
Accepted: All but COA
Attending: WSU for almost-free. So glad this process is over.
has anybody applied to transfer to davidson college? if so, does anybody have a more exact date of when decisions will be released??
I’m a freshman Political Science Major at UCSD (Marshall College)
Applied to: Vassar, Bryn Mawr (my top choice), Williams, Middlebury, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke and Smith
Accepted to: Mount Holyoke
Waitlisted: TBA
Rejected: TBA
College Stats
My GPA is currently 3.733 (1st quarter 3.688, 2nd. 3.8)
I’m Currently in Student Council and an Associated Students Fellow
I took part in World Scholar’s Cup where my team came in 6th in the global tournament of champions and 2nd in the global round
I worked in in retail as a seasonal worker and currently work in the food industry
HS Stats
HS GPA W: 4.122, UW 3.7 (my senior GPA dropped my overall GPA quite low, but I already explained that this was because I was diagnosed with depression and have since fixed the problem)
ACT: 30
I took 6 AP Classes and 6-7 Honors Classes
I had tons of extracurriculars in High School, so I won’t list them all, but I did Student council all 4 years and was a varsity XC and Track runner for all four years (MVP for 2). I really want to compete in college as well.
Sup everyone, now that all of the decisions are heard back from the schools I applied. Here are my stats:
College: CC
Transferring as: Junior
GPA: 3.71
Major: Mathematics
ECs: Little bit of volunteering and amateur boxing
Essay: Not sure if it was good because I didn’t get it proofread by anyone. But the essay itself was very genuine.
Accepted: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCSB, UCI
Rejected/Waitlisted: Cal Poly Slo
Feels good to get accepted to such awesome schools. I never would of thought of getting into these schools when I was in high school. I wish you all good luck and… PRAISE THE SUN （╯°□°）╯︵☼ ☼
Current college: George Mason
Entering as (soph/jr): sophomore
Major: econ
High School GPA:w 3.3ish, unweighted idk probsbly at or slightly below 3.0
SAT/ACT Scores:1960
SAT II Scores:
College GPA:3.8 first semester, I sent in a 3.66 mid-term report
Transferable GPA (if applicable):
Major GPA: I took all the usual first year econ classes in hs so I only had one econ classes to send in my mid term report I sent in a B+
ECs: In hs I did journalism, coached a youth basketball team had a job and that’s about it. In college I didn’t put down any.
Applied to:UVA, William and Mary, Virginia tech, JMU
Accepted: UVA, tech, jmu
Rejected:none
Waitlisted: william and mary
Attending: UVA
Comments:I actually thought my essay was pretty damn good, especially my UVA and william and mary ones for “why I want to transfer.” I wrote about the nature of that kind of question and done if the basic implications it has, kind of a risky response, but it was pretty well written. I took a bunch of honors and aps in hs just fyi. In college first semester I basically only took typical core curriculum classes, very easy, probably a big reason I got a 3.8. Second semester I took all the more challenging first year classes, econ310, calc, bio, stat and a music class.
Honestly idek how I got into uva, I was expecting tech at best, and w&m if I got lucky.
College: LAC ranked around 100
Transferring as: Sophomore
HS UW GPA: 4.0
College GPA: 4.0
ACT: 35 (retook during freshmen year; 5 point increase)
Major: Computer Science
EC’s:
- varsity sport
- independent study research
- volunteer tutor for middle schoolers
- CS club
- a couple of meaningless HS jobs and EC’s
Accepted to:
-Brown, Wesleyan, Rice, Vanderbilt
Waitlisted:
Johns Hopkins
College: Top 40 Private
Transferring as: Junior
HS UW GPA: 3.7
College GPA: 3.96
SAT: 2350
Major: Economics
EC’s: Mainly financial internships (wealth management, credit risk, investment management), along with fraternity leadership
Recs: Not sure
Essays: To be honest, somewhat weak in the sense that I was lazy in researching specific traits of schools
Accepted to: Cornell, Duke, UCB
Wait-listed: Brown, Columbia
Rejected: Yale, UPenn
Will probably end up at either Duke or Brown (If I get lucky and get off waitlist) for various reasons
College: Top 40 private
Transferring as: Sophomore
Major: Political Science and Economics (varies slightly by school)
First generation: No
Ethnicity/Race: White
Gender: Female
Letters of Rec: Just one, from a TA who graded all of my work and led discussion sections.
High School Stats + Awards:
- 4.1 weighted GPA (school didn’t do unweighted but it’s probably like a 3.7??)
- Ranked #15/150
- SAT 2190 (750CR/680M/760W)
- SAT IIs- 780 Lit, 730 US History, 690 Bio
- ACT 33 (35 English, 35 Reading, 33 Science, 30 Math)
- AP scores 5-5-5-5-5-4-4-3
- AP Scholar with Distinction (2016), AP Scholar (2015)
- National Merit Commended Student
- National Honor Society Member
College Stats + Awards:
- Overall GPA 3.82, Major GPA 4.0 (but this is only 3 classes so…)
- Dean’s List Fall 2016 and Spring 2017
- Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society
High School EC’s:
- Varsity tennis (state champion team, individual state quarterfinalist, all-league award)
- Destination Imagination (team placed 3rd internationally, multiple state and regional level awards over the course of 11 years)
- Tri-M Music Honor Society
- Girl Scouts (bronze and silver award)
- Concert band (section leader)
- GSA
- Theatre ensemble cast/crew
- Yearbook (section editor)
- Church mission trip volunteer
- State house tour guide
- Girl Scout camp counselor
- After-school tennis camp assistant coach
- Part time job at a local restaurant
College EC’s
- Political Science Student Association
- Council for University Programs (subcommittee member)
Essays: I think they were pretty solid. I was hesitant about them when I submitted my applications but I recently re-read them and they’re better than I remembered ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Accepted: Cornell (transfer option), Colgate, Georgetown, Syracuse
Rejected: Dartmouth, Northwestern
Waitlisted: none
Attending: CORNELL!!
@aihcxx is your transfer offer after 1 year? So you’d attend your current institution for another year?
@Dontskipthemoose I got the transfer option at the end of the regular decision cycle my senior year of high school, did my freshman year at Northeastern, and I’ll be transferring to Cornell in the fall as a sophomore. So the deal was one year elsewhere, 3 years at Cornell- I just completed the “one year”. All of the schools listed above are schools I applied to during my freshman year as a sophomore transfer.
College: Top 10 LAC
Transferring as: Sophomore
GPA: 3.5
Major(s): Sociology
Units Completed: 32
First Generation: No
Race/Ethnicity: Asian
ACT: 35
College EC’s:
- Congressional Internship
- Op-Ed writer on campus politics
Awards:
- Large merit scholarship from LAC
- Service awards from HS
Applied to:
- Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, UPenn, Pomona
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, UPenn
Waitlisted: Pomona
Accepted: Columbia
Feel free to message me for more details.
College: Public state school/university
Transferring as: Junior
GPA: 3.8/ Major GPA: 4.0
Major(s): English/Creative Writing seeking to double major in Political Studies and minor in Film
Units completed: 57 credits
First generation college student: No
Ethnicity/Gender: African-American, Female
Letters of Rec: 4 letters - 2 from lit professors/employers, 1 from a poet/editor I interned for, and 1 from my history professor
EC’s: Tutor for Writing Center, volunteered/mentored for disenfranchised elementary school students, was an intern for a non-profit women’s publisher, an assistant for my English prof, was an assistant fiction editor/reader for international lit mag, interim managing editor for a lit arts collective, president/co-founder of Creative Writing Club, member of Community Service Club, selected for competitive private workshop with bestselling author, attended a selective writing program at Yale, works as an advice columnist for a US/Canadian feminist magazine, etc., among other little things I did in high school.
Awards: Honorable mention in fiction prize, longlisted for an anthology, recipient of award and scholarship for demonstrating excellence in my declared major (English)
Applied to:
Barnard, Wesleyan, Smith College
Got into: NONE!
Rejected: Barnard, Wesleyan, Smith
Waitlisted: NONE!
Other notes: I should’ve applied to way more than I did, and in hindsight, written “better” essays that made me stand-out, too. As for Smith, while it was a “match” school, my current institution failed to send out my reports on time, and thus, affected possible admittance. So, I’m stuck at the same school and pretty bitter about it even weeks after rejection because I’m very unhappy here. But I’m sure my crappy secondary record made it impossible to get in anywhere remotely competitive. Oh, well.
College: UC Davis
Transferring as: Sophomore
Major: Biological Sciences/Biophysics
First generation: No
Ethnicity/Race: White
Gender: Female
Letters of Rec: 2 - calculus and chemistry professors (A and A+ respectively, good relationship with chem professor)
High School Stats + Awards:
- GPA: 3.8 unweighted/4.3 weighted
- Rank: school didn’t rank
- SAT: 2030 (690CR/700M/650W)
- AP: English Lang and Lit (5,5), Bio (5), Calc AB (5), Human Geo (5), Physics 1 and 2 (4,4)/AP Scholar with Distinction (2016), AP Scholar (2015)
- IB: Dutch B HL (7)
College Stats + Awards:
- Overall GPA: 3.867, Major GPA 4.0
- Dean’s List Fall 2016 and Winter 2017
- Gail E. and Ruth M. Oliver Scholarship
High School EC’s: very limited - horse owner and competitive rider, taking up 4 hours a day 6-7 days a week
College EC’s
- Student Equine Assistant, William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (paid work)
- Hunter Lab Undergraduate Student Researcher, UC Davis Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (internship)
Essays: I was really proud of my essays. Put a lot of work into them and gave a very strong case for transferring and describing how much my interests have changed in the last year.
Accepted: Cornell, Emory
Rejected: Penn
Waitlisted: Columbia (ultimately didn’t accept anybody off the waitlist)
Attending: Cornell for Biological Sciences
College: Tulane University
Transferring as: Sophomore
Major: Political Science/International Relations
First Gen: No
Ethnicity/Race: White
Gender: Female
LOR: 1 from Intro to Development professor, 1 from Symbolic Logic (Philosophy) prof, got A’s in both classes
HS Stats:
GPA: ~3.7 (91.5 out of 100), school didn’t weight
School didn’t rank
SAT: 2150 (760M/740W/650R)
5 APs (Psych, USH, World, AmGov, CompGov)
College Stats:
GPA: 3.83 first semester, 3.87 second
Dean’s List both semester
27k Merit Scholarship from Tulane
College ECs:
Phi Alpha Delta pre-law fraternity - also on their finance committee
Tulane Gymnastics (3 times a week practices)
USG Committee
Service Dog Training Club
Essays: My essays were very last minute but I put a lot of work and care into them. Dont slack!
Accepted: Cornell, GWU, NYU, Tufts
Rejected: UPenn
Waitlisted: nowhere!
Currently deciding between Tufts and Cornell
College: Virginia Commonwealth University
Transferring as: Junior
Major: Social Work
First generation: No
Ethnicity/Race: White
Gender: Female
Letters of Rec: N/A
College Stats
- Current: 3.84; Cumulative: 3.64
- Dean’s List Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
College EC’s
- Member of the GMU Vegan Society Fall 2015-present; was the student co-coordinator spring 2017
-Member of Students Helping Honduras spring semester
-Cashier for a month during spring semester (surprised they hired me so late when they knew I would be going home for summer break at the beginning of May, but they were seriously understaffed and desperate lol)
Other EC’s
-Will be volunteering for Hospice this summer
-Day Camp Counselor last summer (2016)
Accepted: N/A, as of now
Rejected: N/A
Waitlisted: N/A
Attending: if rejected, staying at George Mason; if accepted, going to VCU
Called admissions office today and found out they already made the decision and just need to upload, print out, and mail my letter. Said I should receive it within 1-2 weeks so my guess is I’ll get it late next week or early the following week. Incredibly nervous because I applied rather late so I’m worried they didn’t have any spots open…
College: Public state university in TX
Transferring as: Junior
GPA: 3.71
Major(s): Biochemistry
Units completed: 62 credits
First generation college student: No
Ethnicity/Gender: Asian, Female
Letters of Rec: 2 letters- 1 from my Chemistry professor, 1 from my Chinese professor
EC’s: Chinese Tutor, Math Tutor, Teaching Assistant, School Press Journalist, Clerk at WWF
Applied to: UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCD, USC, UT, UMich, Penn State, Columbia, Cornell, GIT, Brown, Duke, Penn, WUSTL, Wellesley, UChicago, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt, NYU
Got into: UCD(pharm chem), USC(biochem), UT(biochem), UMich(Pharm Sci), Penn State(Forensic Sci),
Rejected: UCLA, UCI, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Penn, WUSTL, Wellesley, UChicago, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt
Waitlisted: UCSD
Incomplete application: GIT, NYU
Attending: UMich with full ride
College: California Community College
Transferring as: Sophomore
GPA: 3.853
Major(s): Public Policy
Units completed: 34.5
Will you be getting an AA? No
First generation college student: No
Ethnicity/Gender: Asian American Male
Letters of Rec: 2
- Int’l Relation Professor = Performed really well in that class, top grade
- English Professor = Loved my essays on social justice
ECs: Officer in Civic Engagement Club; Honor Society; Business Club
Applied to:
-Privates: Saint Mary’s College of CA, USC, Reed, Cornell, Dartmouth
Got into: USC, Saint Mary’s
Rejected: Cornell, Dartmouth
Waitlisted: Reed College
College: US News ranked around 100
Transferring as: freshman
GPA: 4.0, 3.93 midterm
HS GPA: 3.63 UW
ACT: 34 (36, 31, 36, 32, 34)
Major: Biochemistry
Credits: 15 at time of application
White male
Not first generation
Letter of rec: 2
-Humanities Honor Professor = probably really good, he’s a nice man and I cared about his class
-Chemistry professor =also very good, we have similar research interests
ECs: Tutoring, lab internships, youth programs, shadowing
Applied to: Emory, USC, Cornell, Northwestern, Northeastern, UIUC, JHU, Vanderbilt, Rice, Tulane, UNC
Accepted: Emory, USC, Cornell, Northwestern, Northeastern, UIUC, Vanderbilt, Tulane UNC
Rejected: JHU
Waitlisted: Rice
@umbra505 where are you headed?