<p>Not sure how compelling my story is to have a chance at the truly elite schools...do realize its a crapshoot but don't want to waste my time writing essays to places I have no chance at. Also realize Brown is need aware - but is my dream school. Am I targeting reasonable places or should I be aiming lower?</p>
<p>FAFSA: EFC 0000 - will be needing fin-aid so restricted to privates for the most part</p>
<p>Stats: Non-Trad 25, SC resident, Hispanic male
College: CC(fresh) transferred->College of Charleston(soph)
College GPA: 47 credits 4.0 through this fall - (doing pre-med requirements right now @ CofC)
HS GPA: 3.3
SAT: Math-710
Verbal: 630
Me: took a 9 month trial-contract with a professional soccer team in Spain right after HS, didn't cut it and moved back to the US playing lower level professional soccer for a few years (USL-think A/AA baseball), got something like 13 varsity letters and was an all-state soccer player back in HS, realized I wasn't good enough to make it to the big time so joined the Air Force reserves to pay tuition (spent a year away @ basic/tech school - graduated w/honors 99% testing/99% fitness of all graduates) and here I am...</p>
<p>current ECs: research in a marine bio lab looking to be published some time late 2013, volunteer at a low income health clinic, monthly AF drill weekends, club soccer</p>
<p>reason for transferring: the state cut the scholarship funding promised to Military personnel so I'm out 9k a year in scholarships looking fwd...</p>
<p>I have a feeling you’ll be very interesting to top schools.</p>
<p>You’ve been a professional athlete. You have military experience. You’ve lived and worked in another country/culture. You have practical skills from your tech training. You have research experience. You have a great reason for wanting to transfer. You’re from an underrepresented state (probably). And you’re a URM.</p>
<p>You also might consider applying to the continuing ed school, rather than the one for students right out of high school. At Penn, this is LPS; I don’t know about other schools. Getting in probably will be easier there, and I think they’d care less about your stats and more about your very real successes.</p>
<p>You’re hispanic & have a 1340/1600 SAT so you’ll be admitted to several of your listed schools. Your results probably would be much better if you didn’t ruin your amatuer status in soccer.</p>
<p>Since you are definitely applying to 2 high reach schools (both for admissions and FA), then the rest of your schools should be significantly more transfer friendly unless you are OK with the possibility of staying at CofC.</p>
<p>The other obvious uber long shots are Stanford, Yale, Dartmouth and Duke. JHU, NU and likely Cornell (due to transfer agreements) have only slightly higher transfer rates than these four.</p>
<p>Note: while the OP is Hispanic, they give no further details. IMO URM status is less of a factor for transfers than for fr admissions; and the degree of impact on admissions is not constant for all Hispanics, factors such as SES, country of origin, participation in the community, etc. are considered.</p>
<p>RE: my amateur status…had several D1 athletic scholarship offers in HS but thought I had a real shot at being a pro and offers from European teams like that don’t come along often (had connections through a family friend w/the team)…parents didn’t like it but better to take my shot than have regrets down the line about never taking the chance</p>
<p>entomom - was my understanding the following list, excluding those cited as need aware for transfers, were still need blind for transfers as well as meeting full need. </p>
<p>Also what does ‘SES’ refer to? mother is Costa Rican - I’ve played soccer all my life so spent tons of time around people of all nationalities, Latinos among them. Also lived in downtown LA 2 years (high % Latinos though mostly MA) during my time playing soccer in CA.</p>
<p>Should also add I grew up far from disadvantaged however given my advanced age (not a dependent of anyone) and my low/non-existent earnings I qualify as 0000 EFC</p>
<p>Alexrod: how much does my age hurt me? didn’t realize it might pose an issue</p>
<p>Personally, I would never trust a Wiki list as current or correct. It may be, but if it were me, I’d go to the primary source and check transfer FA policies on the college websites. </p>
<p>I’m not familiar with all of the schools on your list, I can only comment on a couple, and even then, policies change over time, so you always have to do due diligence and check for the most up-to-date information yourself.</p>
<p>I know that Y & S are need blind and provide 100% of need w/o loans for transfers, ie. they have the same FA policy for transfers as they do for fr admits. And that Columbia and Columbia GS have different FA policies:</p>
<p>A couple more things about that Wiki list from just a quick perusal:</p>
<p>It does not address the fact that loans are included for most of those 100% need schools. This can make a very large difference in how much you will actually be paying. </p>
<p>While it states that Brown has need aware admissions for transfers, it doesn’t state that B also has limited FA for transfers:</p>