<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>I am currently in a liberal art college(national rankings in 20s). I am a sophomore now but have 14.5 credits. This is my first semester in sophomore year but I really want to transfer now, because I assume that if I finish my sophomore year, the barrier for transfer students will be higher. Due to personal reason and internship opportunity, I may transfer for the spring of 2012(not 2011) and take one year off doing community college and internships. My background is listed below:
GPA 4.0
Intended majors: Finance or computer science
SAT:2100
SAT2:Math 800, Physics 780, Chem 800
Experience:
AAAI Conference presentation speaker
Lab founder
executive broad member of college finance group
physics lab researcher on physics simulation
1 research on robotics
1 year part time internship in finance company
1 research with a MIT professor in finance
1 spring internship in Jone's Day(law firm)
1 spring internship in an alum finance company
1 summer internship in Goldman Sachs Technology
1 second place grand prize in intel international science and engineering fair
1 first place special prize in intel international science and engineering fair
2 patents
some experience as a guest host in TV shows
national candidate in international geography Olympiad</p>
<p>These happened in last 3 years. </p>
<p>I am asking for full aid. My family contribution is zero, and I am a resident in CA. I want to apply the following colleges:</p>
<p>Harvard,
Columbia,
UPenn
Cornell,
Dartmouth
Brown
Rice
UCB
UCLA</p>
<p>What's my chance to get into these colleges? Do I need to transfer to community colleges in order to guarantee to transfer to UCB??</p>
<p>Hey guys…please please give me some advice…>_<</p>
<p>Ah…when I say I have 14.5 credits, I mean I take 15 courses for 3 semesters…the credit calculation is different…maybe…</p>
<p>Please please chance me…!!</p>
<p>I don’t believe those schools, outside the UCs, will accept spring transfers. My advice would be to finish this year and apply in the spring for next fall. Also look at Northwestern and Georgetown which tend to have reasonable transfer admit rates, as well.</p>
<p>Most of these colleges require you to have at least a year of college work to be eligible for transferring to their school, but H. will not accept a student if they have more than two years.</p>
<p>Only Cornell, Rice and Brown(no info about Berkeley and UCLA) will accept mid-year transfers. The rest of them accept only Fall transfers. In case you want to transfer
to Harvard,Columbia, UPenn or Dartmouth you will have to apply for Fall2011 instead of Spring 2012.</p>
<p>Also, you should look into the best fit your yourself since the schools that you have enhance their students with very difference experiences.
What kind of whether do you like?
Urban or Country environment?
Huge school or a small school with few thousands students? </p>
<p>Kind regards,
Kamran</p>
<p>PS Double check Brown Transfer for Spring.
Although they accept Spring transfer, but they do it in the same application cycle with Fall applicants. It is bit confusing.</p>
<p>Can I drop my school after this semester and wait one and a half year to apply again for fall transfer? I will go to CA city colleges to take classes…do you think it is a good idea?</p>
<p>anybody can give me some other suggestions?</p>
<p>I am very confused with what you want to do now. What do you dislike about the Liberal Art school that you are attending now? How is attending CA City College be better than attending top20LAC?</p>
<p>Yeah it definitely makes the most sense to stay where you are and finish out the year. The standard path should work pretty well.</p>
<p>I wanted to spend one year in community college while I am on leave in my current liberal arts college because I want to fulfill the prerequisites of some other better universities. I know that is a little bit unusual, and honestly i don’t know what my life in a community college will be like. That’s why I ask this question. The only reason why I want to drop mid year because I will face higher requirements to apply as a junior.</p>
<p>Thank you for your reply. ^_^</p>
<p>But do you think I will have to fulfill more prerequisites if I finish the whole year?</p>
<p>I honestly think you’ll do much better if you stay where you are - they like to see consistency. A community college is a harder story to spin - I don’t see that many pre-reqs that couldn’t be filled at almost any college in the US.</p>
<p>What do you think if I drop out and work for one semester instead of going to community college?</p>
<p>As I can see from your resume, you have been involved in a research with a MIT professor. You can ask the professor for a full time job as a research assistant/lab technician.Not only it will look good for you to have a full year of research at a state-of-the-art lab, but also you can wind your name on few papers.</p>
<p>I believe some top in-state schools like Michigan and maybe UNC allow for Spring transfers. Maybe consider those?</p>
<p>it is very nice to get your reply. Yet, that might be a good idea to be a full time research assistant for him. I will also consider spring transfer…thank you to you guys…the info is really helpful!</p>