Chance for Transfer Student

Transfer Students
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Hi I am a international first year at Grinnell and I want to transfer to Wes, Middiebury, Colby, CMC, Cornell, and Colgate’s East Asian Studies/ Japanese Studies program. I studied at a prep school in Connecticut for 3 years. Applied to Wes for ED1 but was not accepted.
Here is a list of my stats and courses:

Semester 1 Courses:
1st year seminar
Japanese 101 ( 2nd year speaking and reading profiency but can’t write; JLPT N4 passed
German 101
Japanese society and pop culture

Semester 2 Courses:
Japanese 102
German 102
East Asian Religions
Intro to Anthropology

1st Semester GPA: 3.93

Freshman Year EC:
Chairman of the East Asian Studies Club (I started this Club)
Member of the student government first year council
Volunteer of an orgnazation that promotes liberty in North Korea
Founder of a video channel with 200k followers on a Chinese website

Recommendation letters written by advisor (who is also my 1st year seminar professor), Japanese culture class professor and East Asian religion class professor

High School Information:
Best composite ACT: 31 (English 27 Math 34 Reading 28 Science 33)
Best superscored ACT:32 (English 30 Math 34 Reading 31 Science 33)
TOEFL: 104
Final HS GPA: 4.07 (w/ IB and AP courses weighted by .50)
Courses for Senior year: AP lit, AP stats, AP american gov’t, IB math SL II and Spanish II

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Please reply!

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Have you looked at the common data sets for these schools?

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Yep I checked them. Vandy and Wes has an acceptance rate over 30%.

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Do you really dislike your current school? Or just hoping to see if you get in somewhere better? The reason I ask is if you hate your school, you should consider adding 1 or 2 schools that are safeties.

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@philbegas
I transfer mainly for academic reason. I want to major in East Asian Studies but none of the schools that accepted me offer this major.

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You may also want to consider Hamilton. I’m not particularly familiar with their Japanese program, but they do offer Asian studies as a major, and their commitment to Chinese studies appears to be among the strongest in the nation:

https://www.chinainsight.info/education/general/231-associated-colleges-in-china-a-hidden-gem.html

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@merc81
Thanks! Just submitted my app to Hamilton. I’ve talked to the transfer counselor and he is really friendly :slight_smile:

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Wishing you luck with all of your applications @SunZhaoyu!