<p>Need Your Advice: Dartmouth Vs. WUSTL (Full-ride) Vs. NU, etc </p>
<p>I am planning to transfer to Stanford next year. But, of course, I do want to go to the best school in my list and they are as good as Stanford (or could be even better fit). I just prefer Stanford because I like CA and its education and facility.</p>
<p>here is my final college list:</p>
<p>Dartmouth (Less than 12K: Pending)
U Penn (Wharton School: Fin-Aid Pending)
Brown (No PLME: Pending)
Northwestern (Fin-aid Pending)
WUSTL (Full-ride)
JHU (No Financial Aid)
Emory
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
UC Berkeley (Pending)
UCLA (about 20K)
Liberal Art Colleges</p>
<p>My intended major is Biology or Economics. I am a pre-med student but I may change my mind to go to business or Law school. I still want to have an amazing pre-med program at college. On the other thread, many people recommended me Dartmouth or WUSTL.</p>
<p>WHARTON!!! and if i were you i would stay for four years then go to stanford gsb (or hbs) i can’t help but wonder why you didn’t get into hypms…?</p>
<p>You seem to be totally hung up on the name of the school and not the education you’d receive there. There is no guarantee that you’d be accepted as a transfer student to Stanford next year. Better to find a school that you love now and plan on spending 4 years there.</p>
<p>Transfering into selective schools is much, much harder than getting in as a freshman. Not to say it doesn’t work out sometimes, and you should definitely try for Stanford if that’s what you want. However, ShesOnHerWay is totally right about advising you to choose a school where you’d be happy for all four years… just in case that’s how things turn out.</p>
<p>My sense from what you’ve said so far, the LACs are not the place for you. It’s a different culture there, and obviously those colleges are not what you’re looking for. They offer a very special experience and one that is best suited for students who really want to be there.</p>
<p>Clearly, you don’t value Amherst as much as the other institutions that offered you admission if you so nonchalantly group it together with other “Liberal Art Colleges.” Not to say that Swarthmore and Harvey Mudd, etc., aren’t exceptional colleges as well, but it would seem that you don’t value them much either.</p>
<p>It will be nearly impossible for you to be admitted to Stanford next year, since the criteria for transfer admissions are far more nuanced and arbitrary than those of undergraduate admissions.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would pick “the best school” on your list too, or, at least, the school that most nearly captures the best qualities of Stanford, since you seem unwilling to ever let your rejection go.</p>
<p>Since you are uncertain as to what you would like to study, I therefore recommend Notre Dame.</p>
i can’t help but wonder why you didn’t get into hypms…?</p>