Chance me as a transfer to Cornell, UVA, Middlebury, and more!

Transfer Students
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Stats:

Current college: Haverford College (12 on US News LAC rankings)

Year: Freshman

First semester college GPA: 3.6 (one 4.0, two 3.7s, and a 3.0)

Extracurriculars: Co-head of a small (15 person) club

High school stats: ~3.75 gpa at small private school, 31 single-sitting on the ACT (34 on English, which is my interest), amazing extracurriculars, essays, and recommendations; 5 on APUSH and AP English Lit exams, 4 on AP Psych and 3 on AP Enviro

Prospective major: English, philosophy, or psychology

Reasons for transferring: legitimate (in my opinion; see other thread for more info)

Financial aid: will apply for it; don’t need that much, though

Schools I’m applying to:

Cornell
UVA
Penn
Middlebury
College of William and Mary
Vanderbilt
Northwestern

I realize that all of these schools might be giant reaches, but I would be seriously fine getting rejected from all of them and just staying at Haverford. I feel like I might as well give it a shot, though. Do I have a shot at any of the above schools or should I just save my money and time and stick with Haverford? I’ve decided I’m only applying to schools at least as good as Haverford (I’m not that desperate to transfer, so I don’t really want to compromise academically).

Thanks in advance!

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These are peer institutions for Haverford, so it is reasonable to expect that your profile is good enough for them. Apply. See where you get in and if the aid is affordable.

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Note that your group dips (at the extreme) in student profile to about 70 points lower in average SAT scores than at 'Ford. (However, they are all nonetheless excellent schools, and student profile does not necessarily strongly indicate overall academic quality.)