<p>Hi, I am a freshman student at an international college, and I am thinking of transferring. I applied to schools last year but didn't get into any, since I was only allowed to apply to 6 colleges per country and asked for aid, and applied to top-tier schools only (I just made my safety in my home country, which is still a good school). But now I realized I REALLY want to get out of my country, I've been stuck here forever : (</p>
<p>My HS gpa was over 4.0, and SAT's between 2000 and 2100. (All of my SAT II's were over 700.) I had consistent EC's and awesome recs from my teachers I also got realy high grades on AP and IB (second-highest diploma score in school this year).</p>
<p>Now, I'm sure my college GPA is between 3.75 and 4.0 (probably 4.0, gonna get my grade report in a few days), and I'm going to start working for more volunteer organizations educating people with not enough money and hosting charity concerts, but I'm still worried about transferring.</p>
<p>These are the schools I'm considering:</p>
<p>University of Chicago
Dartmouth College
BC
NYU
USC
Claremont McKenna
Tufts
Northeastern
BU
Loyola Marymount U</p>
<p>What do you think of my chances? Which colleges seem like matches/safeties/I can get in?</p>
<p>I want to get into the college of liberal arts for all of these schools. I want to so major in something along the lines of Development Studies/Human Development and work for an NPO, but also want to take advantage of the big-city setting and do some stuff with the arts (I love music).</p>
<p>I know I have a good GPA, but I'm worried about transferring because of my faliure last year.</p>
<p>I'm also worried about my professor/dean recs (just started, so I don't know anyone too well) and choice of courses (none of the science courses are in English this term, but I'm taking 2 physics courses next term). I have spoken to them, though, and know I work hard.</p>