Undergraduate vs Transfer

fogcity
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:56:38 +0000

Your stats, as far as you’ve stated them, are competitive enough to get you into good universities. My sense is that applying to college with the “intent” of transferring after a year or two is typically not a wise approach. For one it means that you’re likely to be much less enthusiastic than most new students about whatever college that you attend for your freshman year because you’ll see it a “way station” for the transfer college. And from a practical point of view the “more prestigious colleges” typically are much more selective for transfers than for first year students. Often they take very few transfers. The transfer process would require stellar grades, recommendations from professors at your first college, etc. Attaining that high GPA may not be as easy to do as you may assume.