<p>Nontradional student (28)
Freshman at University of Montana (started spring)
3.94 GPA 15 (semester) credits taken (one A-)
Enrolled for 21 credits this fall (expect As)
Never took SATs
Partial legacy at Ann Arbor (Grandparents)</p>
<p>classes taken:
Macroeconomics
Video Photography/Production
Intro to Archaeology
Classical Mythology
Islamic Civilization in Modern Era (A-)
enrolled in:
Physical Anthro
Iran Between Two Revolutions
Central Asia Seminar (graduate level course)
Honors Western Civ.
Farsi (personalized 1-1 course) to take
Elementary German</p>
<p>EC’s
Big Brother
Model Arab League
Linguistics Club
Exchange student buddy
Fencing club
Squash club</p>
<p>Those are the only schools that offer undergrad classes in the Ancient Languages I want (as far as I know)</p>
<p>I don’t know enough about Ann Arbor or U Chicago to comment on those, but I do know that you will need something extremely incredible to get into Yale as a transfer.</p>
<p>You have a decent shot at UCLA, but would be much better off with a unique story or “hook.” Simply belonging to a wide breadth of clubs is nice, but is not very unique. You should theoretically be aided by the fact that you’re majoring in something that is probably rarely applied to.</p>
<p>I’m not familiar with any of the other schools. Getting into UCLA as an out of state student will be difficult but i think you have a good chance of getting in.</p>
<p>UCLA seems to have a really good linguistics department ( i know that they offer at least like 6 different linguistics related majors including Linguistics, applied linguistics, linguistics and psychology, linguistics and philosophy, etc.) so you might want to take a look at their department.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how much legacy comes into play at UMich. i can see it both ways, as it doesn’t seem relevant today, yet, my dad having received a law degree there, I was accepted and offered good FA. The obvious answer is to not rely too much on the legacy bit.</p>
<p>I echo what they said about the hook - do you have any leadership positions? any reason to pick these clubs? Otherwise I feel you have a good shot at UMich. According to their website they have a transfer acceptance rate of about 40%, although this could be artificially inflated by cross-campus transfers by people already in the Michigan system.</p>
<p>As for high school transcripts, etc., most schools disregard that information once you’ve been out of high school for five years or more.</p>
<p>Except for a language that’s not offered at Yale, most of the ancient languages at those four universities are readily available at several other colleges. Unfortunately, most of them are rather selective. </p>
<p>It’s difficult to make suggestions without knowing your exact interests, but at least some of the following should also be suitable. </p>
<p>– Berkeley
– Boston U (maybe)
– Brandeis
– Brown
– Columbia
– Cornell
– Harvard (virtually impossible to transfer into)
– Johns Hopkins
– Minnesota
– NYU
– Penn
– Penn State
– UT Austin
– U Washington
– Wake Forest (maybe)</p>
<p>For Egyptian, there’s also Beloit and U Nebraska. This is my field, so I can easily ramble on about any of these programs. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>If you have a compelling and interesting reason why you took until 28 to do college, then the Eli Whitney Students Program at Yale, which is Yale College’s non-traditional admissions program, might be a good choice. The program serves only as an amdissions program; once admitted, you are the same as any other Yale College student and get the exact same degree. </p>
<p>One warning: for 2010-11 they only took 4% of their applicants! Transferring into Yale College is even harder and as a non-traditional student, you won’t be fairly assessed in the transfer pool. </p>
<p>My best advice is to apply broadly, with the understanding that top twenty undergraduate programs are very selective, and to not take anything too personally.</p>