<p>I am currently a student at the University of Rhode Island but I am interested in transferring to an ivy league school or the Rhode Island School of Design. I just finished my freshman year but I have 77 credits (17 of which are from AP classes, and 8 of which were transferred from the Community College of Rhode Island). By the end of the Fall semester I will have completed an additional 29 credits at URI and another 5 from CCRI. I was hoping to apply to Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, and the Rhode Island School of Design in the winter and was just wondering what everyone thinks that my chances of being accepted would be. I will be applying to RISD for architecture and to the ivy league schools and Stanford for geology or environmental sciences in general. I am currently a geology and geological oceanography and French double major at URI but I think that attending an ivy league would provide me with more opportunities than attending a state school would.</p>
<p>Academic
High School GPA: 3.89
High School Ranking: 9 out of 78
SAT: 2050 (750 writing, 640 math, 660 reading)
SAT II: French 500, Mathematics Level 1: 500 (I plan on retaking the SATs and SAT IIs in the fall)
College GPA: 3.87 (I received a B in a diversity class, a B in general physics I, and an A- in spanish 3 but everything else is an A)
I had a 4.0 during my first semester (Fall 2013) and the winter J-term.</p>
<p>Academic Achievements
National Society for Collegiate Scholars (2013-present)
Société Honoraire de Français (2010-2013 and I was an officer in 2013)
Francophone Award Recipient (2013)</p>
<p>Work
Waitress (Summer 2013)
Sales Associate at Pacsun (2011-2012)</p>
<p>Volunteer
Office Assistant at the Town Building Department</p>
<p>Other
I speak English, French, and some Spanish
I travelled to Indonesia in January to observe the country’s geology and what is being done to provide the people with clean water and electricity.
I travelled to Bonaire in March as part of a research scuba diving class.
Scuba Diving (Open Water certified, Nitrox certified, Advanced scuba certified, and scientific diving trained)
I’ve been playing the piano for 11 years and the guitar for 9 years.
In high school I was on the track team for one season and I was a member of the Invisible Children’s club for a year and the art club for a year.
I did martial arts for 13 years and played soccer for 7 years.
My great-grandfather graduated from Brown University and was in the top three in his class.
I am Caucasian and do not plan on applying for financial aid.</p>
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First of all, this isn’t true. The sole fact that you are going to try to transfer into every single Ivy League shows that you have no business being in one. You should transfer to a school just for the sake of putting a bumper sticker on your car to say that you have gone there. You will also realize that once you make it jot the working world, an undergraduate Ivy League degree means nothing in most fields. It’s graduate school that matters,
especially for your major. So why would you transfer into an ivy for undergrad and then have no money for grad? It makes sense to do it the other way around</p>
<p>Second, What you did in high school doesn’t really matter as much aside from transferring credits. Your HS transcript will be a very minor component of your application. Your college GPA is great and you would qualify for transferring to Ivy League schools, but the likelihood of getting in as a transfer student is even harder than getting in as a freshman undergraduate.</p>
<p>Third, your great great grandfather will not count as legacy.</p>
<p>Fourth, you do not need to take the SAT again. You could, but the bulk of the weight will be put on what you did in college. Your score will increase though if u did take it</p>
<p>I hope this was helpful.</p>
<p>Also, you cannot transfer into Harvard.
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<p>By the time you would try to transfer, you would have completed more than 2 years of studies.
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<p>+AnnieBeats </p>
<p>You actually can. They didn’t admit transfer students for a while, but they opened up again. Of course, they can shut it down at any year if they think there isn’t enough space, but they didn’t block transfer student by default like Princeton. If you doubt what I’m saying, check Harvard’s website below:
<a href=“Transfer Applicants | Harvard”>https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/application-process/transferring-harvard-college</a></p>
<p>And many schools admit transfer students after the first year, not just the second years. For example, Harvard (since I linked the website already. Many other schools have the same policy regarding this) accepts students in their first year:
“To be eligible to transfer, you must have completed at least one continuous academic year in a full-time degree program at one college and not have completed more than two years total in college. You must complete at least two full years of study at Harvard.”
^^^ For your understanding, this doesn’t mean you need to complete a year to “apply”. You can apply when you’re finishing your first year (so during the first year), so you can enroll to transfer that summer. You apply before the summer.</p>
<p>I think it’s important to have an accurate information before you reply.</p>