<p>Hey everyone, </p>
<p>I feel bad writing in the transfers section just after a few days of my freshman year, but this is very important to me.</p>
<p>Currently I go to an LAC in New Jersey, cheap and with prestige solely in the eyes of its students. No non-student, besides devoted parents, wears our college's colors, nobody knows our name, nobody (especially my school's guidance counselor's) treats it with respect. I chose this school over a handful of others because it was the most financially attractive, a hefty scholarship. Although statistically I cannot call my family poor, we still use tap water if you know what I mean. I chose my college because I wanted to keep things afloat at home. I thought I had made the right decision. But now, I have talked to my parents who have agreed to let me thrive for my own, the best I can be without closing any doors. I love them. I want to know if I'm good enough to transfer to a top 20 school or a top public Ivy.</p>
<p>I don't want to sound pretentious, as pretentious as that sounds, but I came from a top independent HS with a 4.0 top 10% of my class with Cum Laude Honors. I also have many ECs (I was President of the student body, captain of the soccer team and have 6 varsity letters, I participated in 6 school plays). I'm proud of my SATs, 2030 overall with 1360 in the two. </p>
<p>I wanted to know if these would be plausible choices for me according to my stats and the transfer numbers from the schools:
Cornell (top choice)
Brown
UVA
UNC-CH
UCLA
UMich</p>
<p>are my goals too high?</p>