<p>Hi! I am currently a freshman at the top university in Asia/Top 50 in the world (2009 THES Ranking). I'm majoring in Biology and has gotten As in my major classes. (only the top 10% of students get As). I'm looking to transfer to</p>
<p>Cornell
Yale (haha..yes)
Mount Holyoke
Columbia
UPenn
U. Michigan - Ann Arbor
UVA</p>
<p>*I'll be applying for a LOT of aid..</p>
<p>High School
- No GPA/Ranking
- 10As in O-levels equivalent
- ABBB in A-levels equivalent (but much tougher) - I suffered from a burn out a month prior to my exam =/
- Horrible high school transcripts (average about 50-60% - but classes are really tough, a national top scorer once scored 40% in an internal exam and once the whole graduating class failed a Physics final)
- I am a gifted kid (skip a grade in school) but did horribly in my first few years of high school (excuse: i was bored but really i was just lazy..i've only excelled in Science and Math classes)
-Few but passionate ECs</p>
<p>College
- Probably >3.7 (As/A-s)
- Professor likes me and consider me one of the better students in class
- Absolutely no ECs (I pretty much hated this college the moment I step foot into its campus)</p>
<p>Reason for transfer
- non-existent research opportunity
- language barrier
- never once enjoyed life on campus</p>
<p>I would really appreciate your opinions! Maybe you can recommend me other colleges to consider! :)</p>
<p>There is almost no financial aid available for international transfers and your HS stats will still be considered, so if you really want to leave, apply to more matches/safeties because all of those are reaches</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply! 
Well, I read that cornell provides financial aid for international transfers? Do you have any suggestions? I did try looking but unfortunately, not many colleges provide financial aid for international transfers… Thanks! :)</p>
<p>Okay… Sorry to be a dream killer. But there are way too many things I see that can possibly hurt your chances.
- You’re Asian. There are too many asians applying to those schools, and so they need to deny a lot of qualified asians to make room for other races to diversify the campus. Not to say the other people are not as qualified (probably as equally qualified), but they reject A LOT of asians.
- You are a transfer (Yale, accepts around 18 out of 700 applicants. Good Luck. U Penn accepts around 175 out of 2000.)
- They look at high school grades. Now, out of the 700, how many people do you think have straight A’s in college AND in high school? You have to note that these applicants are top-notch students too.
- You are applying for financial aid. If you do, your chances are already dead even if you had straight A’s, at least from the many people I heard from who got rejected to universities like UPenn and Stanford.
- How many people out of the 700 do you think had great EC’s?</p>
<p>I’m sorry, but I have read and heard of people with straight A’s from well-known American universities still get rejected by Yale, and all the private schools you listed in the list.</p>
<p>I also doubt U of Mich and UVA give international financial aid. If they do, I’m sorry I am mistaken.</p>
<p>I read of people, and personally know one person, who skipped two grades and still not end up in those universities because of a minor mistake, like an year with one too many B’s, or even one C every year.</p>
<p><em>EDIT</em> Your chances if you apply for financial aid to Yale is not affected. However, I will still say your chances are virtually 0%.</p>
<p>Haha I keep on editing things that I find false in this post.</p>
<p>No point in reviving an old thread. @transferkid7 hasn’t posted in over 5 months.</p>