<p>I am currently a freshman at the University of Maryland College Park. The decision to come to Maryland was a financial one. I am currently a full Banneker/Key Scholar (the most prestigious undergrad scholarship at UMD), so that made my decision easier since I wasn’t admitted to any of the Ivy League schools I applied to. </p>
<p>I want to transfer mainly because I am simply not challenged enough in the classroom and as a result often feel frustrated with the direction my educational career is headed. I am currently an electrical engineering major and I want to explore business and applied math, but the business school here, the economics program, and the math department simply do not offer the same kind of challenge and the same kinds of opportunities that Stanford does nor does Maryland offer true flexibility to explore your interests and still graduate in 4 years like Stanford does.</p>
<p>I know that when transferring to liberal arts-based schools like Stanford one is expected to have a breadth of courses on their transcript. Since I have been an engineering major (first a bioengineering major and currently an electrical engineering major), my schedule has been full of math, science, and engineering courses with no real liberal arts courses (literature, music theory, art history, etc) except for an engineering ethics course which I am taking this semester. Do I have any chance? I have a perfect 4.00 college GPA and I have a 2300 SAT score from high school (750 CR, 750 M, 800 W), where I also earned an unweighted GPA of 4.00. </p>
<p>Also, transferring involves asking professors to write recommendation letters for you to leave their college. How does one go about approaching your favorite professors and asking them for a rec letter for transfer?</p>