<p>^ that was a really pretentious and unnecessary post</p>
<p>Bruins is just being realistic… He has already graduated and after being through it all, has a more well-rounded view of the process. And he is giving his account of how he transferred to the school. How is that pretentious?</p>
<p>^ Well said sir raksudum.
I think decisions are next week though so yeah. Good luck all.</p>
<p>I actually agree that it was pretentious. “do not be surprised if you get a C”. Says who? Says you? Just cuz you can’t get As doesn’t mean others can’t. UNC is my backup transfer school so hopefully I end up elsewhere but if i do end up going there, I’m gunna kill it and get a 3.9. Don’t tell people what GPA they will get. Thanks</p>
<p>^ Exactly. </p>
<p>The entire thing is written in a “holier than thou” tone. </p>
<p>Another thing that also struck me as pretentious was “Adjusting to the Carolina way is not an easy task, especially for those you who are transferring from top 50- tier 2 universities.” I got in as a freshmen, but I went to a community college for personal reasons. Just because I went to a lesser college, I am automatically going to have a harder time adjusting? Please.</p>
<p>I could go line by line and analyze the passage but I’m not going to. It was written as if he knows everything about everyone’s transfer experience simply because of his personal experience. Don’t base my future success on your anecdotal evidence. </p>
<p>Sorry for being so confrontational.</p>
<p>Okay,</p>
<p>So, I apologize to anyone who sees this post as being pretentious, that was not the purpose of my posts at all. As other have said, I’m trying to be real with you and tell you some of the obstacles YOU MIGHT expect, not saying that everyone does, but A LOT do. And I was not saying that people who go to community colleges and other not well known universities are stupid in any way, because I have friends who I know that had to go to CC for financial and citizen status reasons. I’m trying to be honest and tell you how my experience was and that if any of you are to feel the way that I felt, that it’s normal to feel that way. At my university, although it was a top 40, the academic method was different. You are competing with students who graduated at the top of their classes (for the most part) and are similar to you, so to the person who said you’re going to graduate with a 3.9 GPA, 1) I wish you the best of luck and 2) You are being a little delusional if you think it is that easy to get A’s… even if you work hard and study, B’s are pretty normal. </p>
<p>You guys ask for other transfer students’ advice, but when you hear something that challenges your preconception, you get defense and don’t want to believe it. Instead of attacking me, you should learn to listen and choose what you want to believe and shut your mouth. </p>
<p>I wish you all of the best with your admissions and transfer decisions, but be careful before you judge someone. UNC does not have room for people who are quick to judge people, like you called me pretentious. For those of you who want to hear more about my experience and have questions about anything, feel free to message me.</p>
<p>Go Carolina!</p>
<p>BruinsJEW, thank you for your contribution. I, personally, didn’t take it as pretentious, perhaps because I have read your other posts while researching information on the transfer experience at UNC. </p>
<p>I took it more as a precautionary tale. Don’t expect anything – which is fair piece of advice for whatever school any of us get into. </p>
<p>Either way, I think we would all be a little wise to glean something from the posts. I’m sure it was meant to be informational rather than insensitive.</p>
<p>Wow the people in the board are so uptight sometimes. Bruins was saying the first semester would be difficult just like your first semester at your current college was probably. It’s not easy to adjust socially and academically to a new environment and takes a few months to get into a groove and Bruins was just pointing that out.</p>
<p>@BruinsJEW (and also other people who know a lot about Kenan-flagler)
Hey thank you for your information!Can I have a question?I am a transfer student but my major is business, so I want to know how hard is it to transfer to Kenan-flagler after a year in Carolina? How many students can actually succeed? I mean the percentage, is that a lot or just a few? I am kind of worried… So anybody knows anything I appreciate your help, because it is so important to me, thanks!!!</p>
<p>Meilleur,</p>
<p>Admissions into Kenan-Flagler is not impossible, but it is VERY HARD. I felt that admissions favored the students who were there since freshmen year. They say they consider your academic accomplishments from your previous university, but if that is the case, it’s like 10 percent and the other 90 is your 1st semester GPA at UNC and essay/interview, being that the GPA is weighed the most heavily. I do not think it’s entirely fair, because students who began as freshmen at UNC have had time to adjust and raise their GPAS where transfers who will have their worst GPA (for most) during first semester are expected to get 3.5 GPAs. I know a lot of KF hopefuls who end up majoring in like Management & Society, Economics, Mathematics or have a change of heart and become Pre-Law (Public Policy, Polisci, History, etc.). </p>
<p>If B-school is that important to you, I’m going to be completely honest with you and tell you that you should really consider your decision when the time comes. If it’s something you can’t live without, then you might just want to stay planted or transfer to another school where admissions is guaranteed. </p>
<p>Just my opinion, hope it helps. Please don’t bash me.</p>
<p>UPDATE:
<a href=“http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/admissions/undergraduate-business/transfer-admissions[/url]”>http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/admissions/undergraduate-business/transfer-admissions</a></p>
<p>So 50% get in and 50% don’t. Best advice is go in the summer and take some courses to get adjusted to the academics and take easier courses in the Fall.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t see anything wrong in your words and I think the most important thing right now we’re concerning is when will UNC release the dicisions. Now it delays to late April, every minute is hard to pass by.</p>
<p>Anyone know when decisions come out?</p>
<p>The exact day I mean.</p>
<p>my email told me all decisions by the 27th of April.</p>
<p>thanks for the info bruinsjew, dont see it as pretentious at all, rather quite the contrary. Myself coming from a C.C.C., where i was working 50 hours a week and studying when I had time, I know it will be a culture shock as well as an educational shock. I have yet to get a “C”, but i can see what you mean as far as trying to develop the new skills needed to become a student first. It may be more difficult for myself since I was out of school and working for a greater period of time before I returned to continue with my studies. I for one appreciate the blunt nature of your advice and heed it accordingly. I really do hope I get into UNC, my step sister is in Med school there and their anthro program is top notch. Fingers crossed!!</p>
<p>for christ’s sake now its the 27? Was this an email from admissions? Great, right in the middle of finals.</p>
<p>@bruinsjew: Thanks for the post! You’re honesty and sincerity is much appreciated. Could you elaborate more on how the academics are different at UNC compared to your previous university? Thanks!</p>
<p>BRUINS, thanks for the info man. Just ignore the other people.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone. In life, not everyone is going to agree with you and I understand that. As far as academics go, Carolina places a large emphasis on critical-thinking and problem solving. When I met with my academic advisors, I expressed my concerns with my grades (first semester) and how I never gotten such grades in my life before. Each one explained to me that Carolina is not a place you go for grades, they care more about the value of education you receive. Professors do not just hand out grades if you do your work, they want to see you over apply yourself and expand your intellectual ability. All transfers that I know suffer from this, but others adjust faster than some. </p>
<p>As I’ve mentioned in PMs, reading and memorizing information will at best buy you B-'s and C’s. To really heed all the benefits, you must not only take that knowledge and memorize it verbatim, but you also have to be able to make sense of it. The most important factor at Carolina is the “WHY”. Professor not only want you to understand what happened in the Civil War, but want you to take it to the next level and explain how to prevent it in the future, inputting your own theories and ideas, which can be hard when you have not been taught to stretch your mind in these ways. And I do not mean this to sound pretentious in any way possible, but I do not think many CCs and most lower-tier universities as well as top schools challenge you to think this way. I mean I hail from UMiami and I was not challenge in that capacity at all. </p>
<p>I recently saw a clip on the Colbert Report where he was interviewing an influential scholar in the university arena, Richard Hersh, where he speaks about schools DOING IT RIGHT and of those are our competitor large, research public universities-- University of Michigan and University of Virginia. I think you should all watch this and you may understand what I’m talking about a little more. </p>
<p>[Richard</a> Hersh - The Colbert Report - 2012-10-04 - Video Clip | Comedy Central](<a href=“The Colbert Report - TV Series | Comedy Central US”>The Colbert Report - TV Series | Comedy Central US)</p>
<p>Revo I think your chances are good. GPA is below the average but I think your URM status and undergraduate research bumps you up. You have just as good as shot as the rest of us.</p>