<p>Hello CCers,
So I am currently a high school senior that has just been rejected/waitlisted from most of the ivies, as well as rejected from stanford and mit. my only acceptances were UC berkeley and UCLA. If anyone knows some info about how to apply as a transfer (process, letters, whether or not my high school EC's carry over in my transfer app) that'd be much appreciated.
HS stats are as follows:
2320 SAT, 2370 super scored (770CR, 800 W/Math)
780 SAT Chem, Bio M, Math 2, 760 US History
9 AP tests, all 5's (Calc AB & BC, Comp Sci A, Bio, Chem, US History, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Eng Lang)
Val or Sal
Co Authored a paper, Var Swimming/Water polo since freshman year (current swimming captain)
and various presidencies.
Advice please? When applying as a transfer, will I have to note that I applied previously as a freshman applicant? Hopefully looking at NU, Dartmouth, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Columbia (father went to grad school, so some affiliation), maybe some others. Thanks!</p>
<p>Berkley and UCLA are both amazing and highly respected schools in their own right. Don’t go to a school because of it’s name aka that it’s “an ivy”… Go because you love the school and what you can study there. Don’t go into your first year of college thinking you want to transfer. That’s ridiculous, you are going to miss out on the great life experience that is your undergraduate career. That being said if you maintain a good GPA, then yes you have a shot because of high SATs (unless your high school GPA was pathetically low).</p>
<p>I love the atmosphere at UCLA, don’t get me wrong. But I only used the word ivy because the majority of my interests happened to be ivies. The only thing I want that I won’t get at UCLA is a small class size, as I don’t think I can handle 25kish kids in a single school. Mid/Small size schools are what I’m looking at.
Did you mean maintain a high GPA freshman year of college? or did you mean continue what senior second semester grades I already have?</p>
<p>College GPA! Articulate your reasons for wanting to transfer in your essays too… That’s really important to them. Columbia, Penn and NU are all pretty big schools too.</p>
<p>I’m sure that if I work hard enough i can keep a 4.0, but do I have to president of any clubs at UCLA? I feel that would be a facade if I’m club president as a freshman, as they’d probably think that I’m padding my resume with useless stuff.</p>