<p>JetX, I would say after second year is better if you've been rejected from that university in freshman admissions. If you apply after one year, the prospective university will have only one semester of college grades to judge you by, thus much of the decision is based on high school performance. After two years however they will have three semesters of college-level work and thus will place much less emphasis on high school.</p>
<p>hey, to add to this :) i got rejected from wesleyan u last year (i was a senior in hs), and got in as a transfer this year :)</p>
<p>Bringing this thread back to life and hopefully inculcating some hope into this sea of madness. </p>
<p>BELIEVE.</p>
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can anyone tell me whether transferring after 1st or 2nd year has a better chance?
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<p>2nd year bc you have more grades to illustrate, but 2nd year on the condition that you show consistently strong grades and improvement from your HS grades.</p>
<p>2nd is probably better, but I don't see anything wrong in transferring after one year, which is what I am doing. If you don't get in, you can always try again. However, if you do get in, it's great! :)</p>
<p>Ok if 2nd year is better, why is it that the transfers overall numerically less for 2nd year compared to first year??? Is it because less people apply and transfer during the 2nd year?</p>
<p>Good schools don't take many transfer students because they have high retention rates.</p>
<p>You didnt get the question kindofblue, so let me rephrase. If you look at transfer numbers for schools you will see out of a class of about 100 transfer who have been accepted, 75% of them will enter as sophmores or less, while the other 25% will enter as juniors.</p>
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You didnt get the question kindofblue, so let me rephrase. If you look at transfer numbers for schools you will see out of a class of about 100 transfer who have been accepted, 75% of them will enter as sophmores or less, while the other 25% will enter as juniors.
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I'm sorry you didn't exactly enunciate yourself well :P</p>
<p>Where are you getting those statistics? As far as I know more transfer in their second year.</p>
<p>from the universities ive seen (granted not that many, so maybe my inference was wrong :-P)</p>
<p>i LURV this thread. way to give a girl hope. though as a 2nd year transfer who got rejected as a sophomore transfer from Barnard, i don't really think i've got that great of shot there again. maybe third's a charm, fingers crossed- i REALLY like that school, I've kind of resigned myself to being rejected from NU already- though that would be the tops.</p>
<p>I applied to Barnard last year to transfer with Sophomore standing and was rejected. I had a 3.6 then, now I have a 3.79 with more difficult classes under my belt. Hopefully that'll help me out. I'm not really expecting much though because of my craptastic H.S. record, but this thread does make me feel a bit better. :)</p>
<p>Also applied to Smith, Mt. Holyoke and UNC but Barnard is my first choice. I looooove Barnard. :(</p>
<p>I'm praying for you guys, I had a pretty bad H.S. record as well, and hopefully I can transfer as a sophomore. Another year in my current university and I might go crazy.</p>
<p>Saint Olaf! Okay, I feel kind of weird admitting that, since all y'all intimidate me what with your Harvard and whatnot... I just want to be somewhere I'm happy. Also somewhere with a good art department. One that isn't an art school.</p>
<p>Augh, art school.</p>
<p>Well. I was waitlisted the first time, then rejected everywhere else, mostly 'cos of my terrible terrible high school grades. The Natrona County school system and I didn't play nice. I suppose half of my problems were just my sheer jackassery and stubbornness.</p>
<p>So I went to the local CC for this year, sat down, shut up, and reaped the benefits of an education usually afforded to monkeys, without ever having to pay for it. Now I have a handful of gallery shows (ones I curated and ones in which I participated) to my name, a nice-looking job in a museum, and plenty of other stuff-- but mostly I'll be going to the school I always wanted to attend.</p>
<p>hey Ameno, i'm at smith now. my advice, steer clear- but thats just me. for the right kind of person i think it can be a really wonderful school.</p>
<p>anyone rejected from unc, then accepted? if so, stats please?</p>
<p>Good story, Deadvole. Let us know how it works out.</p>
<p>OK here's my story, I didn't necessarily get rejected and accepted to the same school but yea..here it is..</p>
<p>So in high school I was a terrible slacker, no motivation whatsoever. My GPA was literally a 2.0 and my SATs were awful. So I applied to some schools, lets just say my reach was Rutgers NB. I had no idea about colleges and just applied anywhere. So surprise surprise i dont get into Rutgers and end up going to Rider U. A small school in NJ, after a year there and seeing Cornell, where we dropped off my sister, I decide I need to get my act together. I pull a 3.3 and get some schools to transfer to. I get into Syracuse and heres where I am! What i'm saying is that in high school, i couldnt even dream of going to Syracuse and Rutgers was a reach! But now I'm at a school ranked above Rutgers! So I kind of went above it. And although Cuse isn't top 10 like all you brainiacs, I'm happy here and find myself surrounded by driven people. So yea follow your heart and go where you'll be happy. Prestige isn't everything you know.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Vanderbilt the first time around, transferred here this year and looooooooooooooove it!!!</p>
<p>I hope to contribute to this thread in a month</p>