Transfer to Brown, need advice?

collegebound5
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:14:08 +0000

A lot depends on how many transfer applicants there are and how many spaces. The hard part is that she is trying to transfer after one semester. If she was trying to transfer after one year, Brown could see not only her grades at Smith but how she contributed to the Smith community. Your daughter has competitive SAT scores and grades for Brown but you have not conveyed anything regarding what your daughter was involved with in high school and in college. As I am sure you know it takes more than just competitive SAT scores and grades to get into Brown. The fact that she has a 4.0 average at Smith will indicate that she can do the work at Brown, but I do not think that ever was in question. There are many top students with top SAT scores who apply to Brown and get rejected because they dont have that something extra. I think it is harder to transfer into ivy league schools today than it was years ago. If she can stand out from the other transfer applicants by her involvement in extra curricular activities then she will have a better chance