Transferring as a Senior

Futuremed17
Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:53:24 +0000

I’m not sure but I’m also a junior and transferring next year. I might try and ask my junior year teachers (from my old school) to write a recommendation. I’m not sure if this is going to work, but worth a try. My GC told me that the teachers will probably do it. Keep in mind that you may not have the same leadership positions and it sounds like at your current school you are ranked very high. Changing to a different school may lower your ranking and this may make you more unappealing to colleges. Colleges also take into account all of the classes that you are offered and look at your app based on that, so you aren’t really hurt by going to an easier school(to a point obviously). If you have good SAT/ACT scores,gpa, rank, and leadership positions I would stay. On the other hand I am switching schools. At my new school my gpa will go down around .05 because of a different grading scale, but my class rank will go up about 5%. So it really doesn’t hurt my grades. I have to work a bit harder for a leadership position, but I think I have equal chance of getting it at my new school. The new school also has more clubs that I’m interested in. In the end if you don’t have a good reason I would stay, it’s kind of a headache to transfer.