<p>The school I'm applying to for transfer is a considerably less selective school than the school I am currently at. Considering the two schools are only an hour apart and thus should be very familiar with each other, will that help my odds of getting accepted? Or is that something they typically ignore.</p>
<p>Oh, I doubt they ignore it. The higher ranked school must have had reasons to let you in over other qualified candidates, which ought to be apparent in your new app. Good luck.</p>
<p>Hmm...</p>
<p>Well, the school I'm coming from certainly did have reasons for admitting me, however my performance dropped my first semester of college compared to high school, pretty much because of how rigorous it was and just adjusting and all. But I'm wondering if the difficulty of the school I'm coming from will be considered.</p>
<p>yeah it def does...lets not forget here that transfers dont touch the all important rankings so schools will be sincerely seeking strong candidates (as opposed to whoring themselves for gpas)</p>
<p>Can you clarify what you mean exactly?</p>
<p>i just realized how vague i was here...</p>
<p>for freshman admissions, schools are always more selective ON PAPER. This entails higher SATs (than the year before), lower acceptance rates, and often higher gpas, because these are the factors used in USNews' ranking formula which places a prominance upon selectivity. </p>
<p>for transfer admission, USNews rankings are irrelavent because transfers arent plugged into the ranking formula. Thus, schools will be more willing to break away from sticking to qualified candidates ON PAPER. This is where you come in because your HS stats are probably better than your college stats, hence the reason why your current school admitted you. Your transfer school will consider this SOFT factor.</p>
<p>Ahh yes, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks.</p>
<p>Take a school like UPitt and their transfer applicants. What kind of schools do you think the majority are coming from? PSU, other state schools, community colleges, or others?</p>
<p>I'm in sort of a similar situation. I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison my first semester of college. Didnt like it, didnt like the out of state tuition etc.. So i transfered to a public 4 year of lesser quality in Illinois. Now i want to transfer to University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. I look at it this way: How many of the applicants (who are mainly from community colleges and other lesser 4 year public U's) have already been enrolled at a big ten school. I really dont think they are going to ignore it. I'd say you have a leg up compared to others.</p>
<p>Pitt probably exclusiely takes kids from lesser state schools and community colleges...but i dont know too much about Pitt</p>
<p>I can't imagine them putting a kid from a better school at a DISadvantage, right?</p>
<p>oh def not...and if ure applying for sophomore admission, then youre being at a more reputable school directly affects the hard factors (your HS grade). I wouldnt worry about it, ive heard of many kids from top schools transfer to pretty good schools with only 3.0's</p>
<p>Yeah I have a 2.96. My school isn't really a "top school" but it's very selective and nearby the school I'm applying to.</p>