Interested in Transferring

Transfer Students
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<p>I am a freshman at UF. I am not completely happy and have been wondering about opportunities for transferring to top schools. </p>

<p>I am completely clueless about the process to consider me as so. </p>

<p>Here are some stats:</p>

<h2>High School</h2>

<p>GPA: 3.9/4.0, not going to bother giving my weighted since every scale is different.<br>
RANK: 4/450
AP: 10 AP classes, passed about all of them with a 4/5<br>
SAT: 2150, took twice. First time was closer to a 2000, decided to take it again randomly without prep and jumped ~150 points. Felt like I could do better, and feel like I could take it agian and easily score higher if it still matters. </p>

<p>BG INFORMATION: Low income minority </p>

<p>Have done some pretty interesting work in web development before, ~20k lines of code written if that means anything. </p>

<p>AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National Hispanic Scholar</p>

<p>Several solid extracurriculars with high leadership positions as well as dumb school awards like senior notables and what not (popularity contests...).</p>

<h2>COLLEGE</h2>

<p>Came in with about a year's worth of AP credits. </p>

<p>Econ/Finance major. </p>

<p>Looking at a 4.0 this semester. </p>

<p>Couple clubs with leadership/involvement. </p>

<p>If you have anymore questions, please ask. :) I'm not sure about anything really other than the fact that I am somewhat interested in transferring. No idea when to apply, whether that be this year or next year, what it takes, what schools I actually have a chance at, etc. I had originally wanted to go to a top school out of high school but financially it made more sense for me to come to UF, but now I feel like it'd be worth taking on some debt to go somewhere I can flourish and truly be happy. </p>

<p>My interests include economics, finance, (astro) physics, aerospace engineering, and computer science... not just business. Primary interests in location are up north or out west, to be as ambiguous as possible.</p>

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<p>With your stats, you could honestly apply this year especially if you keep that 4.0. Why spend two years at somewhere you’re not happy? </p>

<p>Where are you thinking of applying? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY why?! That’ll be the biggest thing that you’ll have to answer.</p>

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<p>My only reasoning for staying here would be that it’s not THAT bad and that I’m practically being paid to go here. </p>

<p>As a high school senior, I was interested in schools like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, NYU, Chicago, Columbia, UC Berkeley, among others. I would definitely looking into more schools though if transferring is feasible. </p>

<p>I supposed I’m interested in transferring because I always had that thought in the back of my head that I should have aimed higher, especially now that I’m not completely happy. I want a better education, more driven and academically interested peers, and better opportunities in my field of study and post-graduation employment.</p>

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<p>Well, I’ll tell you one thing. You nail a good GPA at UF, and there’s no need to take your SATs again. </p>

<p>UF is a great school. Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Columbia, and UCB are going to be VERY VERY difficult to get in now as a transfer. UCB probably more than the others because I know that they don’t really take OOS student transfers. Don’t know much about MIT or Columbia. Stanford is a 1% transfer rate. </p>

<p>This is where the deliberation becomes extremely difficult. Graduate debt free from a great public institution or (potentially) have a degree from a slightly higher ranked school. I don’t know. I’m in a different position than you and I cannot speak to your experience, if you feel that transferring is seriously beneficial to your future…go for it! You’re competitive enough now to do it! But again, UF is pretty well known and I honestly think you can get exactly where you want staying there (maybe even go to one of the schools you named for your PhD or something!) </p>

<p>Best of luck :)</p>