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<p>Pardon me, as I am completely clueless. If anyone else knows more about transfers, please help me.</p>

<p>Is it possible for me to transfer from a normal college like, say, Rutgers to JHU after freshman year?</p>

<p>Does it not matter to get into a good college? because freshman year is when you have to take all your prerequisites anyway and theres no point in attending a good college because of all the pressure of high scores (in my case, i dont have good anything) when you can just transfer, right?</p>

<p>They require a GPA above a 3.0 and there is no minimum SAT/ACT score, whatever that means. Does that mean they require SAT II's, letter recommendations, and whatnot?</p>

<p>One last question, I don't understand the different umm departments? in colleges/universities. Can I get into Rutgers but not into Rutger's Pharmacy? Or are those two separate applications? If I get into plain Rutgers the first year undecided without a major, can I switch into JHU and get into the Medicine department? Or do I have to be extremely qualified and what does that mean? The transfer site for JHU says the transfer students are competitive? Is it even likely for me to have a chance at all? ("Due to space and availability" blah blah this is not a sure thing blah..)</p>

<p>Thank you for any help! I would appreciate it greatly.</p>

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<p>You can apply to transfer. It is extremely competitive, with only about 8% being accepted. There is no undergraduate medicine department, and you don't have to transfer into a major. Here is the list of majors/minors in the arts and sciences: <a href="http://www.krieger.jhu.edu/academics/majors_minors.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.krieger.jhu.edu/academics/majors_minors.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You can search for engineering if you're interested.</p>

<p>Not to be rude, but I think you should do a little more research before banking on transferring to a top college.</p>

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<p>If you don't have good anything, you probably won't get into Hopkins. Just because there are no set minimum SAT or ACT scores, having a bad SAT or ACT score will hurt you.</p>