<p>Thanks for pointing that out Momofwildchild.</p>
<p>“To an IVY, its very,very difficult, as transfer acceptance rates are much lower , and in some cases virtually non existent[ Princeton doesn’t accept transfers, Stanford’s acceptance rate is less than.2% ] than acceptance rates for freshman. You may want to look into USC, which does take a lot of transfer students who have shown the ability to succeed in college. Chicago does save space for around 40 transfers each year, but transfers into that extremely academic, intellectual environment is intense, so say the least.”</p>
<p>I have applied to Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, UConn, Cornell, Columbia, Washington University in St Louis, George Washington University, University of Washington, University of Rochester, Penn State University Park and Ohio State University as a transfer student.</p>
<p>I had that Cornell and Georgetown had transfer acceptance rates of over 15 percent.</p>
<p>Maybe being from a tier 4 university might kill my chances eh.</p>
<p>HI,</p>
<p>Do students like going here? How are the academics? The social life?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Techerdz
Were your grades in HS as strong as they are now? Did you apply to any of the above colleges then and were accepted? If so, you do have a chance. Just remember, Ivy-caliber colleges tend to take a much higher % of students transferring from “peer” colleges than from lower caliber schools.</p>
<p>My high school grades were not very strong, I graduated with a 3.6 and I had a 3.2 when applying for colleges. I did not apply any to those colleges while I was in college. So yea, are my chances done?</p>
<p>I’m currently applying to transfer from University of Delaware (mentioned a few pages back), and thought I’d add my two cents.</p>
<p>Basically, I feel that I want to be in a more academic environment. While I’m in the Honors Program, some Honors classes have been more along the lines of high school (kids talking back to the teacher trying to see “how far” they can push her, discussions-turned-lectures because I was the only one who would participate and the professor eventually stopped calling on me). </p>
<p>Partying is also extremely prevalent here, and surprising so among Honors kids. I live in an Honors dorm but I here people stumbling home at all hours of the morning. I know that kids at Ivy League schools party too, but at least they work just as hard in the classroom the next morning (or are capable of it).</p>
<p>I graduated among the top 10/450 of my high school class and I know that this is not how I want my education to be.</p>
<p>“kids talking back to the teacher trying to see “how far” they can push her, discussions-turned-lectures because I was the only one who would participate and the professor eventually stopped calling on me”</p>
<p>I know that one person’s post on CC should not really make one’s decision about a school, but this one did it for me/my kid…UDel is off the list; this is the exact reason she is not attending our local public for HS…wow</p>
<p>I left Middlebury because the small environment wasn’t exactly what I expected. I chose it for the small, tight-knit community, but I found that many people were there because they weren’t ready to leave high school. The social structure was more rigid than anything I’d experienced since sixth grade, and things were frighteningly divided between athletes and non-athletes.
Hopefully, I’ll be off to a larger, urban campus in the fall.</p>
<p>nvilla’s experience is not dissimilar to my D’s at UDel (not the talking back to the teacher in class part, but the apathy even in Honors, and the uber-partying).</p>
<p>Interesting thread. From the first page…DS went to Boston University. In HIS major, there were very few transfers out…almost all who matriculated also graduated. And his floor had almost all students in his major…he doesn’t recall that anyone transferred out freshman year. I have to wonder if department or major has some impact on this. Perhaps the arts and sciences majors leave more than school of management or school of music…don’t know…just a thought.</p>
<p>DD’s school has a VERY high freshman retention rate AND a very high graduation rate in 5 years. We looked at this because it’s quite a distance away. This was something DD considered because she wanted a place where the students were happy to be there and didn’t leave. She has been quite satisfied.</p>
<p>But in the end…it’s a single student decision. Regardless of the statistics…it’s what is right for your kiddo that matters. Even if the retention rate is 98 %, your kid could be in the 2% that decides to transfer. Conversely the school could have a 40% retention rate, and your kiddo could be very happy there for the full four years.</p>
<p>I transfered after my freshman year. It wasn’t the end of the world. I liked my school but there were also things I didn’t like about it…Greek scene was HUGE, cost was a factor, and it was in the middle of nowhere. I transfered to an instate public, not a huge greek scene, lots of choices of majors, and a great small college town close to other places. BUT I know lots of folks who happily stayed at my first school for the full four years.</p>
<p>Different strokes for different folks.</p>
<p>I know of two of my D’s classmates from 2009 who are leaving Penn State after one semester. They said there was too much partying. One of them is going to UMCP - not sure how much will change with that move.</p>
<p>I have a relative leaving University of South Carolina because the kids aren’t wealthy enough for her (nope…I am not kidding - she is that shallow) </p>
<p>My D is not having the same experience as others on this thread at UDel. Might be specific to her hall though. She’s also only been there one semester, so who knows.</p>
<p>I left the University of Texas at Austin mainly due to the fact that it is overcrowded and the professors and college admins. seem to only care about research and grad students. Tution is being increased as well and I was just tired of all the red tape at that school.</p>
<p>D, still in hs has many frosh friends who are transferring:</p>
<p>Carleton To Middlebury. Reason:too remote, far from home</p>
<p>UNC Charlotte
U So. Carolina too southern, too far from home, culture shock</p>
<p>These kids have friends in hs who are happily at state flagship in NE.</p>
<p>Which brings up another issue. Our hs does not give out stats re transfers, which would be useful info.</p>
<p>more transfers;</p>
<p>Emory to TCNJ</p>
<p>Cornell (too remote, too intense)
Oberlin (too artsy, focused on music) and this guy was and is musician
both to same state flagship in NE</p>
<p>I would also caution that the reasons you are told for transfers may or may not be the actual reasons. In many cases, there may be financial and/or GPA related reasons that a family understandably doesn’t care to discuss.</p>
<p>AAli4Real- Would you share where you will be going? That’s interesting about UTexas.</p>
<p>Emory to TCNJ- Boy, that’s a change. I can’t imagine that unless financial.</p>
<p>@Rodney: To be sure, I have not encountered this behavior in all of my Honors classes. That specific incident occurred in Honors Freshman English this semester (taught by a grad student no less). I am also in an Honors General Chemistry class that I have found to be a very good experience as well as challenging-- I just wish all of my classes could be like this.</p>
<p>Overall, I would say that I am dissatisfied with my “Honors” experience, however.</p>
<p>MomofWildChild: Sure, I would be glad to share my thoughts!</p>
<p>I am hoping to trasnfer into the business school at McCombs (UT Austin), if this fails then more then likely I plan on leaving and maybe going to U of Houston.</p>
<p>My main problem with UT Austin is with the way they handle transfer students and the attitude problem the admin. has. UT Austin is the one that came up with the CAP Program allowing students who were rejected to UT (most likely because they were not in the top 10% of their class) a chnace to come to UT after spending a year at a sister-campus such as UT San Antonio.</p>
<p>Making the transition from UTSA to UT Austin was tough academecally, getting help adjusting was another issue.</p>
<p>Orientation was disorganized and signing up for classes was a pain considering that everything I wanted to take was closed (had reach max capacity). Advisers were not friendly and didn’t point out the resources availble on campus because they themselves were unaware. I felt as if UT didn’t want the transfer students, like me, to be there.</p>
<p>Basically, comming to UT I felt more like a number, a statistic, rather then a student who was a part of one of the top research schools in the nation. Their are many things wrong with this school and it would take me a long time to explain but if your interested in knowing let me know.</p>
<p>UT Austin is top 10 in the nation for having the largest number of students drop out or leave the institution (I think this is the attrition rate).</p>
<p>I left the University of St. Thomas (MN) because it was more religious than I thought it would be. The school actively pushes the Catholic ideology on the students while hypocritically stating that they value diversity. The administration also made some very unintelligent decisions during my freshman year (such as not inviting Archbishop Desmond Tutu to speak on campus). The school is also very easy to be accepted to and thus the professors did not expect much from the students which resulted in classes that were less than challenging. And I could go on but I’ll stop there.</p>
<p>A friends daughter left Fairfield within a few weeks because she felt the culture of drinking was just too excessive. She was able to get into another small LAC and is doing fine there.</p>