<p>Any current BC student willing to share their experiences trying to transfer into either the business or nursing school at Boston College? </p>
<p>The BC website seems to make it sound impossible to internally transfer. If this is so, it seems like a tough place for a student who isn’t sure that the college they applied to in fall of their senior year is the best choice.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t BC stand for - Be Certain?</p>
<p>Internal transfers barely happen, and there are a few reasons why they are particularly hard to do.</p>
<p>1) CSOM is a top ten business school. As a result, you get many business-oriented people who apply there, who are certain they want to pursue a career in that area. This really raises the bar on the standard necessary to attend.</p>
<p>2) The number of internal CSOM or CSON transfers depends on the amount of people who transfer out of the school, which are few and far between. For example, my friend who is currently a senior transferred into CSOM and was one of three people to get accepted internally.</p>
<p>3) Nursing, in particular, has a very intense curriculum that makes it near impossible to transfer into without dooming yourself to a fifth year of school. In the sophomore year, nurses are already starting clinicals. As a transfer, you would have to complete a variety of introductory courses before you were allowed to begin.</p>
<p>If you’re interested in business, there is an economics major that is offered through A&S. Furthermore, if you’re interested in something like nursing, you may also be interested in being pre-med.</p>
<p>So, if you feel like you’re “doomed” by the tough transfer rules, there are always other options to pursue. Frankly, if you were interested in those schools, you should have applied for them, rather than whatever your current school is.</p>
<p>Probably the main reason why transfers are difficult is that the curriculums are different for entering Frosh. Thus, by the end of the first year, you would be behind the prereqs to graduate in four years. For example, Nursing students take (ahem) “special” science courses that are restricted to Nursing only, i.e., no one else can take them. </p>
<p>To increase your chances of transferring into CSOM, make sure that you sign up for Frosh courses that CSOM Frosh take, including Portico, which will require permission.</p>
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<p>Not really. The science courses offered in the Nursing school will in no way satisfy premed requirements. OTOH, the science premed requirements offered by A&S will not fit into the nursing program requirements.</p>
<p>I spoke to someone at Bc who said they used to have spots for transfer students but that is no longer the case. It is difficult to transfer into nursing programs</p>
<p>clockblues,</p>
<p>I appreciate your honest and thorough answer. </p>
<p>But this question was for my daughter. She applied to the lynch school of education way back in October when she had every expectation of being in the school’s applied psychology and human development major. Since then, she has questioned her choice of working in that field and may be interested in other majors. </p>
<p>It is common among college students to change their major. I believe that I read 50% of freshmen change their major by the time they graduate. There are plenty of colleges which allow space for students to change major. Another of her choices, the University of Michigan does allow change. By the tone of your answer, I am not expecting her to like the school when we attend Eagle Day next week.</p>
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This is true, and it also applies to Boston College. However, more often than not, most of those students are changing majors within the same school that they applied to (i.e. an English major decides to change to Sociology in Arts & Sciences.) What your D is concerned about is internal transfers, which are often difficult to accomplish at most top universities that operate several pre-professional schools. </p>
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Like BC, but usually only within the same school to which they were admitted to.</p>
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If she wants to pursue a business or nursing career and cannot transfer into CSOM or CSON, she can always get an MBA or MSN.</p>
<p>from Michigan’s Nursing website regarding transfers:</p>
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<p>So yes, it’s doable, but ain’t easy. I understand that transferring into Ross, the b-school, is doable, but extremely competitive – one has to “apply” in. According to Ross’s website, the mean college gpa is a 3.6 for acceptance. Only ~35% of transfer applicants are accepted.</p>
<p>snajean:</p>
<p>your D could transfer to Arts and Sciences at BC, should she wish to pursue a Psychology degree, or Econ (if pre-biz). But, as you must understand, Nursing is a specialized program at every college that offers it. And since future nurses are a dedicated group and don’t leave, there are few transfer slots available the following year. (This is the same reason that some Ivies have few to zero transfers every year – with a 98% Frosh retention rate, they just don’t have any beds to accept additional students.)</p>
<p>In the case of Nursing programs, the colleges don’t have many free slots to admit transfers. BC, for example, has already announced the intent to accept few or no Nursing transfers this year. While a current BC student would likely receive transfer priority, it won’t much matter if there are zero transfer acceptances.</p>
<p>Best wishes in your D’s college search.</p>
<p>My younger D is a current BC Frosh. It was made abundantly clear during parent/student orientation last year that it is virtually impossible to transfer into CSOM from another school. This question was raised repeatedly and the response was firm. If your child wants to major in business they should accept a business school offer.</p>
<p>Just to expand a bit on bluebayou’s response. The Ross School of Business starts its undergraduate program with sophomore year. While a portion of the class is pre-admitted, the majority apply during the second semester of freshman year (having completed/enrolled in specific required classes). The 3.6 freshman GPA seems to be the floor these days.</p>
<p>Bottom line - both the nursing and business schools at BC and Michigan are extremely competitive admits. Your ‘easiest’ course of action would be Michigan Ross. Michigan Nursing, BC CSON & CSOM have very low probabilities.</p>