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<p>I transferred to Penn last year from Colgate and would be happy to answer any questions you have about transferring to Penn!</p>
<p>Good luck,
A.</p>
<p>question for you:</p>
<p>did you apply to SEAS, College, or Wharton? What was your 1st Semester GPA (and 2nd: does that really factor in at all?) How were your high school stats? Also, when did you hear about your decision?</p>
<p>Most serious question of all:</p>
<p>How did you deal with the waiting?!?!</p>
<p>Thanks to this transfer thing I've now developed a close and personal relationship with my local postal workers.</p>
<p>On a slightly more serious note:</p>
<p>Do you know anything about the Health and Societies program at Penn? How many students? Hard to get into classes? Know any transfers who got admitted to it?</p>
<p>Lastly:</p>
<p>Are Junior Transfers still eligible to thesis?</p>
<p>my question is about student life...</p>
<p>is it easy to adjust to campus and social life as a transfer student? do u find urself in a social circle of just transfer students or what?</p>
<p>Is Penn good about meeting the needs of the transfer students in terms of adjusting and what not? And yeah I would like to know how you took the wait and what not.</p>
<p>collegeguy: I'm a college (CAS) student. My high school stats/1st semester GPA have nothing to do with the Penn experience so I'm uncertain why you're asking about them? If you really want to know my high school stats you can search through my posting history. I heard mid-May.</p>
<p>Speakout: 1) I got into Wellesley (2nd choice) several weeks before I heard from Penn and would have been totally happy going there, so it wasn't too bad waiting till mid-May. I was actually visiting Wellesley and using one of its student center's computers when I found out I got into Penn...awkward.
2) I've taken 1 class in HSOC and looked at a couple others. I don't know too much about the program, but I really enjoyed the one class I did take. It's not difficult at all to get into classes of any department. That's one of my fav. things about Penn compared to Colgate.
3) Yes! Junior transfers can write theses! I have a friend who transferred as a Junior and she's doing a really cool thesis about historical cartography.</p>
<p>theshiz- A lot of my friends are transfers and a lot aren't...If you want to hang out with only transfer kids, I'm sure you could....but if you wanted to pretend you had been at Penn since freshmen year and only hang out with non-transfers you could do that to. All of the kids I met here thought it was pretty interesting that I transferred and were really friendly and welcoming, I wouldn't worry about making friends...Penn has so many UGs you're bound to bump into people to chill with.</p>
<p>lilkrnq- I was sooo impressed by Penn's transfer orientation! It was 10 days of ice cream socials and baseball games they planned for just transfers. They have a separate orientation for transfers that's really in depth - and they give you student coordinators who were also transfers, but at the same time you do do some stuff with the freshmen...</p>
<p>do you know anyone who transferred there from community college?</p>
<p>1 Did you transfer into sophomore year or junior year?
2 What was your reasons for wanting to transfer into penn?
3 What was your high school GPA and SATs?
4 What is your advice for a freshman looking to transfer after two years? (ie college GPA, extra-curriculars, etc.)</p>
<p>Fouxdufafa: I know several people who transferred from CCs both in Wharton and in CAS. 2/3 are academic rock-stars here!</p>
<p>Collegeboundkid:
1) Sophomore year
2) I'm anthropology major and our dept. is one of the very best in the world. Additionally, I fell in love with our campus (which is beautiful) and Philly is a great city to live in. I like the size, and the "one university" policy which lets me take law/graduate school of education classes towards my BA.
3) I don't understand why this has anything to do with your potential time at Penn as a transfer. If you're really interested you can search through my post history, but this isn't really relevant.
4) Don't go into your current school looking to transfer! Otherwise, ...umm....get good grades? Sorry...I'm a student not an adcom...</p>
<p>Terrarumorbis, what part of nitty gritty west philly did you find beautiful?</p>
<p>the campus is pretty much the same as that of any campus that I have been to such as UCLA, USC, BYU etc. so I dunno if you are over doing. but whatever floats your boat:-/</p>
<p>transfermation20: Have you ever even visited Penn?</p>
<p>Sure, West Philadelphia is not the most gorgeous place in the world, but when walking down Locust at night in the winter when they have the lanterns hanging from the trees, or standing in the lower quad at any time of the year, or chilling by the Button...I personally appreciate the aesthetic charm of Penn's campus...even off campus..South street has its quaint parts, Philadelphia has more murals than almost any other city, and the city skyline is gorgeous at night (especially from the roof of KC or college hall)</p>
<p>TerrarumOrbis: I hope you understand that most people that look at the title of your thread assume you will be giving some sort of info as to what got you in (hence all the questions about stats, hs GPA etc. etc.). Your thread title isn't indicative of "ask me about the penn experience"</p>
<p>A follow up question about the health and societies major:</p>
<p>The reason I'm transferring is because I really want to study health care, a major which is not offered by my current (and tiny!) LAC. I wrote all of my essays about my experience/studies in health care, and why I think I'd be a good fit for the Penn health programs. If it's a crowded major, however, and they're having problems accomodating current students it might be hard to transfer in. I know this is a really specific question, I was just wondering if you had a read on the situation. Is health studies one of those majors everyone does? Is it really popular? Do you think they'd have room for a transfer?</p>
<p>TerrarumOrbis, I am a senior going to Clarkson planning to apply to Penn 2 years later. My h.s. stats are not very high. do you know people with low h.s. stats but good college stats that got into Penn? How much weight does Penn give to h.s stats for a junior transfer?</p>
<p>Guys,</p>
<p>Try to understand from TerrarumOrbis's perspective.
She has taken time to tell us more about the "transferring" experience that we don't know much about.</p>
<p>I don't think pounding TerrarumOrbis for her stats is appropriate. I'm sure you can dig it up at other past thread. </p>
<p>Anyways...thanks for your time hah...
I also applied to CAS, but are internal transfers common?
I know it's too early. But if accepted to CAS, I would really like to jump to Wharton. Internal transfers at NYU(where i go) are pretty darn tough...especially to Stern.
thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Internal transfers are not too uncommon, however, to transfer to Wharton you need to have a bunch of stat/math classes. It's more common for people to do two degrees, one in the college and one in Wharton. Why didn't you just apply to Wharton if that's where you wanted to go? Good luck!</p>
<p>you can't do an internal transfer after an external one</p>
<p>Yeah, my moms a prof and has close friends who teach at Penn, I was admitted as a frosh, but felt that the college atmosphere reminded me too much of high school. don's get me wrong its a wonderful school, but in terms of beauty, ive seen much better. and the way you made it sound, was like walking through Princeton or Yale !!!!!</p>
<p>TerrarumOrbis,</p>
<p>Since I plan to transfer into Wharton for my sophmore year, would it matter if I take classes Micro and Macro economics during my second semester? Would it hurt my chances if I did?</p>
<p>Although Penn's website says they must be completed by the end of freshmen year, I think it is better to take at least one of these classes by my first semester. That way, they have a grade to judge me on, but I could be wrong.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>