<p>I am attending Wesleyan University next year as an undergraduate student. I received a full scholarship (all 62,000 paid for) through Questbridge. There are schools that appeal to me that i did not apply to such as Duke, Johns Hopkins, and some ivies.
What are the chances of me getting into other elite schools as those listed above if i maintain a high gpa at Wesleyan and have more than enough extracurricular? that is, transferring after one year.
I love Wesleyan, however, I want what is best for me in the science field (even though Wes has superb research)</p>
<p>I did not apply to any ivy league schools this year, and other schools like washington university in st. louis, stanford, and the ones listed above.
A classmate who is attending brown next year (she was waitlisted at wesleyan) said it should be easy for me to transfer from a school with credentials like wesleyan, that is if i maintain a high gpa and such.</p>
<p>^Your classmate was incorrect, if only for the fact that most highly selective colleges have much lower acceptance rates for transfers than for fr. Transfer rates can be found on the Common Data Sets of colleges or on the CB College Search function.</p>
<p>I’m not that familiar with how QB works, so my first question is: would you have been a competitive candidate at those schools as a fr applicant without being in the QB program?</p>
<p>Because soph transfers are assessed more heavily on their HS record and test scores as they will only have completed 1 sem of college when they apply. This tends to make it difficult to transfer ‘up’ to the highly selective colleges as a soph if you weren’t already a competitive applicant out of HS.</p>