<p>Don’t go to York planning to transfer to Yale. Transferring to Yale is like a fantasy of winning the lottery, not a plan.</p>
<p>I understand that you feel a huge sense of loss from blowing your LSE acceptance, and you want a project that will let you roar back from that with something sensational. But here’s how you do it: You go to York and suck it dry – get everything you can from it. And use that to boost you into a great graduate program, which will have a much greater effect on your life than anything else. You’re not going to accomplish that if you have one foot out the door before you even put one foot in the door.</p>