<p>Remember when listing your ECs on your applications (both UC and Common App) to put down that you are a member of Phi Theta Kappa, not Phi Beta Kappa…</p>
<p>Oh, sorry. I understand now.</p>
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<p>For some schools, CC students get priority in transfer admissions if they have 90 credits (more so if they have an associate’s degree). I guess “usually” was incorrect.</p>
<p>There’s a good handful of students who go to a community college near where I live for two years and then transfer to Cornell. It’s definitely not impossible to transfer there; I’d say you have a good chance.</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for your comments! I feel much better about this now, I will definitely give it a shot. </p>
<p>Sorry I haven’t posted here in a couple weeks, school got REALLY busy at the beginning. </p>
<p>I wanted to ask one more thing - what do you think of transferring into places like Cambridge? As in Overseas? From California? Does that happen? lol I’m just looking into all my options :D</p>
<p>Oh, I should also add some new additions to my portfolio…I recently became treasurer of a second honor organization, this one is called Phi Theta Kappa - 3.5 GPA and above honor society.</p>
<p>WOW! Regina Thunderhawk IS a very interesting person! Thanks for bringing that up!</p>
<p>All schools, with Dartmouth on the extremely low side, are possibilities for you. Any transfer’s chance at Dartmouth is very low. Dartmouth takes very few transfers due to high retention and the fact it tries to keep each class tight. In addition, most departments, excluding sciences, don’t usually accept transfer credit from cc.</p>
<p>Getting into Cambridge isn’t hard. In fact, it is easier than getting into elite American schools if you are good at remembering facts and taking test. The problem is financing your education. Unlike rich American schools, Oxbridge are relatively poor and perpetually cry to the British government for monetary help. Even with government’s help, students at Oxbridge still graduate with £23,500 in debt on average. To put this into perspective, a lot of American schools (including Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Columbia) eliminated loan for its students so students can graduate debt free. Therefore, Oxbridge don’t give financial aid to international students. If you can handle about $45000/year for three years (British college lasts for three years), then great, apply. If not, then you can’t attend even if you get in.</p>
<p>IvyPBear - Thank you for your response! That is very encouraging, to hear that all are possibilities. I was not too set on Dartmouth, at least not as much as UPenn or Berkeley. </p>
<p>Based on what you’ve told me about English schools, I really don’t think I want to go anymore. I think I’d rather get into one of these prestigious American schools, and then use their “study abroad” programs. I’m sure my anthropology instructors will help me with this - anthropology is all about studying abroad :D.</p>
<p>And no, I can’t handle $45000 haha 
I could get a loan, but I really wouldn’t want to, so thanks alot for bringing that to my attention.</p>
<p>There is a ridiculous plethora of threads in the Transfer Students section about CC kids who transfer into baller schools. even bother looking?</p>
<p>I was also fairly lazy in high school and didn’t get in to my dream school (USC), while my best friend did. So I was pi$$ed and chose not to go to state school, and instead joined the Army. When I got out, I went to a JC in CA for a semester and then a CC back east for a few more. I have been admitted as a transfer to Dartmouth, Duke, UVA, UCSB (Honors), UC-Boulder, etc. and in the process have been waitlisted at Brown and Stanford (during an earlier sophomore year attempt). Yale awarded me an Eli Whitney interview this summer as well (20 or so pre-screened students got interviewed for 8 spots). </p>
<p>You have a legit shot pretty much anywhere… provided your application is well-executed.</p>
<p>Bait&Switch - Joining the army probably boosted your app big time. A smart student who’s willing to undergo extreme physical training provided by the army to strengthen him/herself illustrating the determination to overcome intellectual and physical challenges is highly sought after by all elite schools.</p>
<p>solidblu - Stanford is a good option for cc transfer applicants. It accepts a much greater percentage of its transfers from cc compared to Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, etc. In absolute numbers, Penn, Berkeley, and Cornell accepts way more, hundreds, from cc. Your chance is good.</p>
<p>remember that elite colleges are not need-blind for transfer students. This is one problem with brown. So if you have a lot of money, they’ll choose you over someone who might be more qualified but will be taking a lot of their financial aid. But this also means that you will probably have to pay a **** load of money to go there, unless you can prove that for some reason you truly cannot pay for it…
Also the guy who joined the army, elite schools give preferential treatment to veterans for being veterans. I’m just surprised that he got it…being a veteran means that he is independent (unless his parents are supporting him) thus his income would be less. It’s a funny game to play with the admission’s board. It makes me crazy cuz I also am a veteran but don’t want to declare myself one in case they see that I would be paying for it all myself and would need too much financial aid. ARGH</p>
<p>You can’t transfer into Cambridge, period. Not in the American sense. The concept simply doesn’t exist here. You could apply as a potential first year student alongside all the other applicants but you couldn’t bring your accumulated credits with you.</p>
<p>AshesInTheFall - Some elite colleges, like Brown, Northwestern, UChicago, aren’t need-blind. However, the richer ones in terms of endowment per capita, HYPSM, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, etc., are need-blind for transfers.</p>