Desperate to transfer, could you chance my suggestions?

Transfer Students
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<p>Schools I am considering transferring to Columbia, NYU, Chicago, UT Austin, feel free to add suggestions if you feel these are out of my league.</p>

<p>I am an international student at a school in the states right now and I've just gotten done with my first semester and am strongly considering transferring since I am having trouble living in the middle of nowhere even though it is a quite nice small liberal arts college.
I am a com/theater major but would be willing to drop theater if I could transfer to a larger city, preferably northeast or California.</p>

<p>I am a non native english speaker, and completed a dual language program in my native tongue and German (I speak three languages fluently), so the transition into English has been a challenge, and my grades have suffered a bit in the States (as did my SAT's way back when), but I have always been very strong academically and I expect to improve my GPA radically next semester.</p>

<p>HS
SAT 1150
Native GPA is stellar compared to national average. Finishing top 3 in class and receiving highest grades given graduating year in many classes. High school was ranked top 5 in Nation.
Went to nationals with football and basketball team in High School and raised more than 6000 dollars to fight illiteracy in Russia as charity chair.</p>

<p>College, I overdid it a little on the EC's first semester
GPA 3.26 (Two A's, B, and a C)
EC's at current school
Fraternity
Environmental group (we are marching on Capitol Hill in Feb.)
Tutor middle school kids a couple of hours a week.
Student Congress
Academic Affairs Council</p>

<p>My main problem at my current school is that the student body is not intellectually engaged enough outside of class (possibly because of our geographic location being located in the South) and I miss theater, museums and cultural activity in general.</p>

<p>I really wanted to go Columbia or NYU but am afraid that my the C in my GPA has screwed me over (along with my SAT scores). Boston, Chicago, LA, San Francisco are also attractive to me but what schools would I have a realistic shot at getting in at?</p>

<p>What school do you go to presently? How many credits did you take in the fall semester? Can you produce a letter of recommendation from one of your professors at the current school? Your ECs look pretty good at the moment. Does you school have Global Awareness program or the Global Partners program? If it has one i suggest you enroll in it for the spring semester. These are some of the strongest ECs you can obtain on campus being an international student. Did you obtain any major related experience while at the school? Trust me, it matters a lot in case of transfers, especially if you are considering good transfer schools.</p>

<p>I am at Southwestern University a little outside Austin Welcome to Southwestern University and should be able to produce two excellent letters of recommendation.
The school does not have a global awareness program (that I know of), we are only two international students (and I am sure that is the largest amount the school has had in a while).
I have not obtained any major related experiences for communications studies (there is not a lot going on in Georgetown,TX) really, other than for theatre, where I have been with able to follow the rehearsals of a production while being home in Denmark.
Also I am not in need of financial aid, which is another fact that I have been told is important since I won a big scholarship from Europe.</p>

<p>I am trying to start a socially conscious film festival on campus, but whether it will happen or not is a good question, because students do not seem to be supportive of each other's projects. I have already persuaded one of the philosophy professors to give a lecture along with one of the films that he has a book coming out about.
Well I as a communications major I also started a blog, which has been doing decently, and has had about 4000 views in a little more than a month.
There I have been working a lot on marketing it etc. trying to make something that people would actually read. I guess that counts as communications-related in a way?</p>

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<p>i have absolutely no clue what you did with the second half of your post</p>

<p>applying to columbia with a 3.26 from a not very well known college is, sorry to be blunt, a joke...nyu cas is out of the question at the moment as well...so is chicago...</p>

<p>if you dislike where youre at so much and are desperate to xfer, why don't you have some more realistic options? or are you just looking to go to a more prestigious school? you might have a shot at fordham</p>

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<p>its kind of weird isnt it. Would I have made a B in my final class instead of a c I would have had a 3.7. Would I have had a better shot then?</p>

<p>I was reading an article in the economist today that said that there where far to few foreign students in american schools 3.5 %. </p>

<p>It seems that I chose very wrong when I went to highschool back home, because I did not go to a school that prepped for standardized testing. Our educational tradition relies on critical thinking and our grading system as well as the actual evaluation of the students are very different. Education is a process and it is where you stand at the end of the semester that counts not how you do after the first week (unless we're talking natural sciences). But enough about that. The point is I did extraordinarily well there, had tons of EC's etc. and a very nationally biased testscore should decide where I get to go?</p>

<p>So yes I may have struggled a little first semester. The reason I would like to go to those schools is that they are able to attract good students, who might have something interesting to say, and they could possibly be a little more worldly as well, compared to where I am now. </p>

<p>I also said that if those schools are completely out of reach please be constructive. What schools would be within reach?</p>

<p>I am not that desperate to leave (don't get me wrong, I would like to), but I am very desperate to get some feedback on my post</p>

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<p>btw this part of the post </p>

<p>"What school do you go to presently? How many credits did you take in the fall semester? Can you produce a letter of recommendation from one of your professors at the current school? Your ECs look pretty good at the moment. Does you school have Global Awareness program or the Global Partners program? If it has one i suggest you enroll in it for the spring semester. These are some of the strongest ECs you can obtain on campus being an international student. Did you obtain any major related experience while at the school? Trust me, it matters a lot in case of transfers, especially if you are considering good transfer schools." </p>

<p>Should have been in quotation marks, as to show it is a question someone asked me and the following paragraphs are answers. </p>

<p>the post did look a little strange to me as well. Sorry about that</p>

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<p>i have no clue whats going on in your post</p>

<p>asking yourself rhetorical questions isnt going to garner many responses...for future reference, try to be more pithy and to the point</p>

<p>you may like to go to columbia or u chicago, but its not happening...you indicated in the title of your post that you were "desperate" to xfer, and now you are not...
i did in fact give you a school in the range of what you should be looking at if you want to be in a big city...fordham, perhaps ucla, depaul, boston university although i dont think its as diverse as many other urban schools...i would warn against transferring to a more "prestigious" university, if you could get into one, as it seems that the school you are at is giving you enough of a challenge at the moment</p>