<p>I am looking for a school to transfer to for the spring....that is a good school (in the top 20) and is close to a major city and has small class sizes, but not overly small either, around 50 students is ok.</p>
<p>I have a 3.95 from a CC (60 units completed; competitive courseload coming from a CC), and now i am attending ucla (13 quarter units in progress). I am on junior standing.</p>
<p>ps. i know i will lose some units in the process.</p>
<p>any ideas?</p>
<p>i thought you were all about ucla mojo? what happened?</p>
<p>lol at you transferring again. didn't you get into UCLA?</p>
<p>btw you wont lose any if you go to rice. Is houston a major city? If it is, then appl to rice. It's a small school.</p>
<p>Look into northwestern as well.</p>
<p>thanks, i'll look into it. I was thinking about that one too lol. Although im pretty sure northwestern is super stingy with finaid.</p>
<p>SCorBust, check the UC thread on top, and u will find my post which explains everything.</p>
<p>Your criteria makes this pretty easy for you to do yourself. Go online to the USNews ranking and cross off any schools not near major cities / without very good transfer financial aid. Leaves you with:</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Penn
Columbia
Chicago (iffy on the FA)
WashU (GREAT FINAID)
Brown
JHU (I guess)
Rice (GREAT FINAID I HEAR)
Emory</p>
<p>Ta da! You can probably get into WashU/Emory in the spring. Harvard, Penn, MIT (?), Columbia, Chicago, Brown don't have spring admissions. You're down to a few.</p>
<p>do penn and columbia accept spring transfers?</p>
<p>No (10 char)</p>
<p>i know columbia doesnt. I dont know about penn, but prolly not.</p>
<p>About washu...what was their finaid package like? when i tried applying there 2 years ago, they told me that the most they give is 35,000 in grants, which sounds similar to what emory use to give back in the days. How much did u get?</p>
<p>well, keep in mind that I'm not poor - at all. Which isn't meant to be as snooty as it sounds, and indeed at this moment in my life I'd prefer to be practically dirt poor. $35k in grants sounds pretty damn nice. </p>
<p>I applied from a community college with a 3.9, 34 ACT, pretty good ECs, 90-100k family income depending on how they viewed it. Got 19k in a "need-based/academic-based" Eliot Scholarship and another 8k in govt. loans. It was also guaranteed renewable. I kinda wonder why I turned them down for Wes when I start talking about money :D. So I can assure you that it's worth spending the $55 (which I might add is cheaper than any other top school transfer app ;) ) to see what happens. Apply early.</p>
<p>im scared of their midterm grade report! I dont know how well i'll do at ucla :confused:</p>
<p>unlike washu, emory doesnt ask for that so i can screw around haha!</p>
<p>emory sounds like a high candidate for admissions. I just need 1 more. Maybe rice, but what i hate about rice is sending my sat scores through collegeboard. They are a mess! i like just sending my scores through my transcript, u kill 2 birds with one stone.</p>
<p>You should make sure Rice accepts spring transfers first. ;)</p>
<p>Re: WashU, if you send your app early enough (they begin accepting it Jan 15th) you'll receive a decision by Feb 15th and will not be required to send the midterm. I was accepted at about that time and never did end up submitting the midterm. You already have plenty of credits and a great GPA so you need not worry about them asking you for it.</p>
<p>rice accepts spring transfers</p>
<p>Sweet Jesus! You have yourself a group!</p>
<p>You can thank me after you get the acceptances from WashU and Emory. I think you'll probably also fare well at Rice: their admission rate is slightly higher than WashU and the applicant pools are likely very comparable.</p>
<p>Ya know, I think you just like the transfer app process SO much that you just can't help yourself. I'll probably come back on here in a year and a half when I'm applying to law schools and you'll be applying to transfer again. LOL</p>
<p>oh really? so they never asked for them? werent u the one that said something about having a C in one class and being worried? i forgot who that was...</p>
<p>anyways, yeah, rice does accept spring transfers. I will have to contact both schools on monday. And their finaid offices lol :D</p>
<p>now the only concern i have are sending my sat scores... i dont wanna talk to collegeboard, they took forever to send them last time! transcripts all the way! although i hate how the majority of schools want them "directly sent" from collegeboard. Thats dumb! collegeboard sends them directly to my school anyways, so why cant they just accept it from my transcripts?</p>
<p>Yeah, I thought I might have had a C in Chemistry. Curse science courses to the 9th circle of the depths of hell. I ended up with a B. But no, I was worried about that because Wesleyan required a midterm as their response time was normal, not early. </p>
<p>Rice is probably going to be your best bet. Overall cost is quite a bit lower than the others and they have an incredibly high endowment per student.</p>
<p>wth? i just checked washu's website, and it said:</p>
<p>All applicants for spring admission are required to submit this [Mid-term grade report] form for admission consideration. </p>
<p>:confused:</p>
<p>wack!</p>
<p>Damn quit yer *****in!</p>
<p>lol...dammit, i hate applications!</p>
<p>are there any top LACs in big cities? (that are not wesleyan? :p)</p>
<p>haha good I don't want you here anyways - and they don't give very good aid either. :$</p>
<p>To answer your question, not to my knowledge.</p>
<p>To pose another, why are you stuck on big cities? You should know that if you go to a top school, you will be capable of getting a job in a big city afterwards, on either coast.</p>
<p>they dont? considering its an LAC, they SHOULD.</p>
<p>well, i have grown up in a big city and having everything catered at my need!</p>
<p>also, its always good to be close to big cities so u can try out for american idol! LOL! jk!</p>