Not happy at current school

Transfer Students
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<p>Hey everyone, I'm a freshman at BU in the college of arts and sciences honors program, and as the title implies I'm not enjoying my time here. The honors program which is one of the main reasons I wanted to come here is a pretentious joke, and the overall intellectual atmosphere is lacking. I literally have no work and am a good 2 or 3 weeks ahead of most of my classes, simply because I've had nothing to do and have been incredibly bored. Consequently I'm considering transferring to a more difficult school next year and have a few questions about the process.</p>

<p>First of all my stats are as follows..</p>

<p>1.)3.5 H.S. GPA from a competitive private school
2.)SAT 700 CR, 720 M, 670 W
3.)SAT 2 660 Lit, 640 Math 1 (I really don't know what happened on these)
4.)College GPA should easily be 3.8+
5.)Currently no EC's, but if I do find something that interests me I won't hesitate to join it
6.)Rowing on the schools freshman team, and definately want to continue doing so at whatever school I transfer to</p>

<p>The schools I'd like to try and transfer to are Brown, Penn, Northwestern, Cornell, and Notre Dame, in that order (I figure if I'm gonna transfer I might as well apply to some real reaches).</p>

<p>Having said this would I have a very good chance at getting into any of these schools? should I retake my SAT and SAT 2's? and are my current lack of EC's going to hurt me?</p>

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<p>If you haven't already, read the Transfer Admissions 101 sticky thread at the to of this forum.</p>

<p>Transferring "up" as a sop is difficult because: 1) you will be evaluated mostly on your HS record since you will only have completed 1 sem/qt of college when you apply; and 2) for most top schools, acceptance rates for transfers are lower than for freshman applicants.</p>

<p>I'm not saying it's impossible or that you shouldn't try, I'm just trying to relate the reality of transfer admissions.</p>

<p>All of your test scores are at the low end of the range for your schools (except perhaps ND which I'm not familiar with). Yes, a lack of ECs in college will hurt at the level of schools you're looking at. But since you have so much extra time, that shouldn't be a problem to remedy.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response entomom</p>

<p>Can I get a few more opinions though? especially regarding retaking the sat's</p>