<p>thanks for the inspiration....</p>
<p>Can you still get scholarships and financial aid from the school if you transfer?</p>
<p>This thread is very encouraging. The transfer option is one we are considering for our daughter, and I would appreciate some wisdom. She's a high school junior with a 3.2 at a school where the grading scale is rigorous: 86-87 = B-; 88-90= B; 91-93=B+; 94-95= A-; 96-98= A; 99-100= A+. All of her grades are above 90%, but she has a 3.2 or "B" GPA. She is discouraged and fears that she won't have many choices or scholarship opportunities ( a necessity!) next year. We are wondering if taking her out of school and putting her in post-secondary classes at a local state university or community college for her senior year might be a better option (she would very likely get A's because of the heavier emphasis on writing; her school is much much more into multiple choice and regurgitation of facts, but she's a really strong writer and critical thinker and only the honors courses at her current school give her a chance to show that). Or would it be better to let her graduate from the high school with the 3.2 and THEN take a year at a local college, get good grades, and try for a transfer?</p>
<p>Just remember that you do have to check whether the college admits transfer students at all. Harvard used to (which is why Washington Post writer Jay Mathews can compare Harvard to another college, because he attended both). But Harvard didn't admit any transfer students last year, and announced then that it wouldn't admit any this year. It may be that Harvard will not admit transfer students anymore (as Princeton has announced for years is its standard policy). Check and double-check, but good luck.</p>
<p>It'd have to be a great senior year.
As you probably know, your freshmen grades won't be available in time to apply for sophomore year. And if they are, few colleges will put much faith in just the 15-18 freshmen college credits earned during fall term.
Most institutions, especially publics with articulation agreements, suggest students with marginal HS records to complete a full year in college before even applying for transfer.
However, that doesn't mean you have to stay for 2 years. Many schools keep their transfer admissions open until summer, after presumably your spring grades would be available. You can meet the 30 credit mark, apply over summer and start at your new school in the fall.</p>
<p>great thread, thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>Are transfer applicant pools to top universities generally less or more self-selective than normal admissions? Is it mostly people from community college applying? Or is it more people who are already succeeding in college looking for a better fit?</p>
<p>Does someone with a high GPA from a first tier state school have a strong chance at getting into a school with decent transfer rates like Cornell, Chicago, and Hopkins, or is it even more of a crapshoot than applying from high school?</p>
<p>And how the hell does anyone manage to be one of the handful that transfers into MIT? Win a Putnam?</p>
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<p>And how the hell does anyone manage to be one of the handful that transfers into MIT? </p>
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<p>There is no exact answer. </p>
<p>One theme that has surfaced in this thread and the one that happened to work for me is this: </p>
<p>If you're a young 20-something, who entered the workforce after high school, whose experience in the workplace gave you the conviction to return to school, who gave up the paychecks and the social life those checks supported, whose track record back at school was sufficient enough to demonstrate you were serious about trying your hardest, then the only thing I can say is that the top 4-year colleges will look at you seriously. </p>
<p>No one can say if they'll admit you or not. In fact when MIT accepted me, the University of Connecticut rejected me - saying my high school grades were too low.</p>
<p>I suspect the colleges will also look to see what else you did with your life since high school to see if your experiences and qualities can add to the mosaic the school wants to see in their student body.</p>
<p>So I got rejected to Brown in High School with about a 3.8 gpa. I applied for transfer and got a 3.9 first semester at Emory University. What do you think of my chances?</p>
<p>Why don't you like Emory? I think you have a good chance.
BTW I think this thread is a great motivator! Thanks for posting all</p>
<p>Well I love Brown's style of curriculum. It's top 5 in getting ppl accepted into med school. And I know it sounds selfish, but I also want to go to a school where people have heard of. I say Emory and a lot of people haven't heard about it.</p>
<p>i know someone who had a 2.5gpa in high school who got into duke as a sophmore transfer after having a 4.0 gpa from a state school in NY, retaking sat and scoring a 2400. his essays were golden.</p>
<p>People haven't heard of Emory? I feel like everyone I've met has heard of Emory. It's not Division I sports or anything, but it's a well-respected institution.</p>
<p>HEY guyzz how about financial aid or scholarship? Is there any possible way to get scholarship when we transfer?</p>
<p>I just got accepted into University of Michigan as a transfer. I was waitlisted and then rejected last year. I graduated from high school with terrible grades, but I got a GPA of 4.0 for my first semester in college.</p>
<p>what did you guys do for your applications, since the questions are the same each year? if your answers are the same to some of them (not because you were too lazy but just because they haven't changed within a year), will the admissions officers think less of it or do they not even save your old applications?</p>
<p>genesEooooo Collegee</p>
<p>my best friend literally went from gavlian community college in gilroy to princeton because of this.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn't take transfers. </p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Emory is ranked one of the top 30 colleges in the US. It has been heard of…</p>