<p>…I was wondering if I could get the advice of some of the adults/parents on this site. The older you get the more wisdom you have, so please shower me with your wisdom! </p>
<p>Current School: NYU (Class of 2014)
Entering as: Junior
High School GPA: 3.3 UW (Arghhh, but I took 12 AP’s with most rigorous course load)
College GPA: 3.93 ( Approx. 46 credits at time of transfer)
ACT Score: 32 (Studying for a retake…don’t judge)
SAT II Scores: 700 US History
Significant High School EC’s: Medical Club President, Student Government VP, Co-Founder of Students for Improving Healthcare, Hospital-Hospice-Mosque volunteer for many, many hours, Varsity Wrestler/Off-Season Wrestling Club ( This took a TON of my time), Travel Soccer during the summers. ( I have a lot of community service, and academic award too)
College ECs (seem so skim…): Investment Analysis club, Future Writers club, Pakistani Students association, Internship for the State of New York in environmental sciences (10 weeks, 50+ hours/ week) </p>
<p>List of schools:</p>
<p>1) Brown ( Went here for two separate summer sessions when I was 13 and 15, its my dream school will definitely coax my future recommendation writers about how badly I need to be on Thayer St. divulging Kunderas literature while simultaneously having raspberry bubble tea from Tealuxe [ I want to keep going but I will refrain]).
2) UPenn
3) Swarthmore
4) Vanderbilt
5) Columbia
6) to 8) will be matches (not the kind you light) and safeties. Any suggestions? </p>
<p>Thank you very much! I hope you guys can be as honest as possible! BTW I am a pakistani male if it makes any difference!</p>
<p>You should check the transfer data at each of the schools, and see where the numbers look at least possible.</p>
<p>Is NYU that bad for you? Might not be your dream school, but you are going to have to drum up really good reasons why each of the schools meets your needs better. Since they are all over the map, large/small, I’m not convinced you’ve really thought it out</p>
<p>You are class of 2014 but you want to transfer as Junior? Isn’t it a bit too early to talk about it? Or it is too late for Sophomore transfer, as all semester schools have already started. If you were planning to transfer in your Jr. year, why HS records are even important to discuss?</p>
<p>jym 626 - I think nyu has helped me in many invaluable ways, however I feel as though the class sizes are too large and the student body itself is very inconsistent. I mean how are several admissions officers supposed to pick 5000 quality undergraduates? </p>
<p>Also, the school itself is not socioeconomically diverse as advertised. Most kids have a lot of money, and I come from a family that doesn’t financially support me. I’ve moved around a lot in my childhood, my family has had humble beginnings coming to this country but I’m proud of it. </p>
<p>Another reason is that I have a disliking to the stern school of bankruptcy. The kids there need to learn something about humility, they look down at other colleges in nyu big time as well. This is to say there is no school spirit. I gotta get out! I wanna study business, but not under such an overtly pre-professional basis!</p>
<p>Mini - Also brown specifically offers a COE concentration (Commerce, Organizations, Entrepreneurship) and the program itself would be so perfect combined with the international internships they set you up with, it’s unreal. </p>
<p>I went to brown for two separate summer sessions when I was 13 and 15 years old. I never wanted to leave. It’s weird though, in high school I never felt smart enough. Somehow I worked my butt off in college and something somewhere clicked. I wanna see what brown thinks of me this time, it’s been too long, I have an incomplete education there.</p>
<p>It seems like you really want to go to Brown. Forget the other schools and concentrate on just Brown. ASAP, call or email the admissions dept - find out who handles transfer admits and develop an email dialogue. Determine exactly what YOU need to submit and what your chances are for transferring either next semester or fall 2012. Good Luck. :)</p>
<p>Good advice. And meanwhile, see what good things you can make out of NYU. (I happen to think it is a WAY overrated place, but there are good students, good faculty, and good opportunities to be found.)</p>
<p>TutuTaxi - To be completely honest, that’s what I have subconsciously been doing lately. When I think of transferring, the only school I don’t just know by name are Columbia and Brown. Brown, because of the two summer sessions that I completed there at a relatively young age. Columbia, because I lived in the city for some time and I know the campus. The other schools on my list, I know only by name. I have no emotional attachment, really even to Columbia. </p>
<p>Although with Brown, I’ve spent 7 total academic weeks there, I know all the nooks and crannies. I miss making my own waffles at v-dub. I miss doing all the little inconsequential things students at Brown get to do! However, I know NYU isn’t working with me, and the only place I know for a fact that would, would be Brown because of the solid time I spent there. I wanna study business, but I don’t like the climate of Stern, and I want a campus. I’ll surely take your advice about the emailing, I’m gonna get that started like my life depended on it!</p>
<p>mini- I haven’t lost entire hope yet! I still have to academically perform, although I feel as though it’s not because NYU is making me feel intellectually driven. It’s more my seeing Brown as an option if I can pull off the GPA I never had in high school. So in a sense even though I’m physically studying at NYU, I’ve mentally never left Brown’s campus.</p>
<p>i would check out the transfer board, some helpful people there. i just went through the process, it’s stresful, but worth it if you really don’t feel your school is a fit</p>
<p>i calculated the transfer rates based on info on collegeboard (all for fall term i believe), you’re welcome (and check my math, i did it quickly)</p>
(and check my math, i did it quickly)</p>