<p>Hey everyone, I'm currently a freshman student at Wake Forest University from Virginia (unfortunately not N.C.) and I am looking to transfer into UNC-Chapel Hill. I am a Dean's List student at Wake with a 3.2 GPA (Poly Sci major) and an active member of College Republicans, Students for Burr/Bush, and recreational football. During high school, I had a 3.9 (weighted) GPA with 12 IB/AP classes and 1 honors class (11-12th grades) and a 1260 (660 verbal, 590 math) SAT. I was a Distinguished Honor Roll student all 4 years and was the History Student of the Year for my senior class. I did take the SAT II's and I got a 760 on the US History, 690 on Writing, and 590 on Math IC (my downfall in both SAT's). I ran for a two time state champion cross-country team, was involved in church mission trips, youth group, spanish club, rec league basketball, soccer and baseball, and I played the piano.</p>
<p>I know this will be hard to pull off, but who knows, maybe I can come up with a miracle. Can anyone let me know what they think my chances are of being accepted to UNC Chapel Hill and what, if anything, I should do to increase the odds of such an event. </p>
<p>I was just wondering, why you would like to transfer out of Wake?</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm not completely sure that I want to transfer yet, I'm just probing the whole thing at the moment. I think part of me just wants a bigger school with more social opportunities and a college town feel. I was always a big runner, so not having an active running club here didn't help either.</p>
<p>Deacon86,
From what I understand, it's very difficult to get into UNC from out-of-state (daughter looked into it), but certainly worth a try. What gpa do you have to have to make Dean's List there at Wake? I thought it was 3.5 at most colleges. Your gpa in high school was excellent but your SAT is probably just average for UNC. Your EC's look good, but I'm not sure how much they are taken into consideration. Why didn't you apply to UVa since you're majoring in Poli-Sci? My daughter is hoping to transfer from UMD.</p>
<p>I am a sophomore at Wake also looking to transfer. To make the Dean's List here one needs a 3.0, lower than most colleges because at Wake we have grade deflation and grade quotas. </p>
<p>I would suggest talking to a transfer admissions person at UNC to help you because sometimes transfer admissions factors are different than freshman admission- in your case being out of state. Good luck!!</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies but I think I'm going to stay at Wake. ntbad05...if you have any questions about WFU before you come here send me an email at <a href="mailto:riseej4@wfu.edu">riseej4@wfu.edu</a>.</p>
<p>it's basically the same difficulty for freshman as it is for sophmore transfers to unc-chapel hill. it'd be wayy easier trying to transfer as a junior, if you can. but you should still try. write an awesome essay. good luck.</p>
<p>Well actually, the quota for in state students only applies for freshman admissions, so transfer admissions is competitive but not nearly as freshman.</p>
<p>Hi...I'm a freshman at a university in VA and I'd like to transfer next fall to UNC Chapel Hill. My family has lived for a very short time in NC, so we are not legit residents yet. UNC has the major I'm interested in and I'd like to be closer to home. Any suggestions? Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm also looking into transferring to UNC Chapel Hill (from University of Delaware--Chem Major, but I'd like to get into the Public Health program there which isn't offered at many schools at all). Does anyone know what the main factors are in transfer admissions there? My SATs sucked (1330)...should I retake them? I was 2nd in my class and went to the International Science Fair, but I think the SAT scores might kill me. Anyone have any suggestions?</p>
<p>I am a sophmore at Wake Forest and I am very strongly considering transfering out of Wake and into a larger state school. Here are my reasons why:</p>
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<li> I am working very hard and my grades do not reflect my work ethic and mastery of the material we learn in class. We have grade DEFLATION here at Wake. An A is a 4.0 however, an A- (yes we have those here) is a 3.6. I want graduate schools and potential employers to have an accurate perspective on my performance in college. Grade deflation hinders that possibility. In addition, they call it WORK Forest for a reason. We have a really heavy workload all semester long. (I'm not complaining about that...just a warning).<br></li>
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<p>Oh yeah....
Professors here enjoy screwing you over. Most tests are subjective in nature (essay or short answer format). Most professors don't enjoy giving full credit. They also (and this is one of my biggest complaints) compare your answer with that of the other students in the class. So if you give a perfect answer, yet another student in the class offered more information in their response, you lose points and their answer becomes the standard. Also, many professors believe that in order to get an A on a paper (93-100) it has to be publishable. I personally think it's ridiculous, and not the point of college paper writting, to expect that every paper a student writes should be of such high a quality that it can be published. </p>
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<li><p>Registration is really painful. We are not allowed to declare a major until our Junior year and therefore have to focus on fulfilling divisional requirements (classes we must take in order to graduate. It's part of the Liberal Arts education). One would assume that since Wake Forest is a small, private, liberal arts college there would be enough classes offered for everyone to fulfill their requirements with ease. This is not the case. Registration is a time of high stress for most Wake Forest students (especially Soph. and Frosh. since we register in the last two days of the registration week). There are seldom enough sections of each subject offered for the majority of the students who wish to attend those classes to register for them. The waiting lists are almost always lengthy and it is not always easy to get into a class when you are on a waiting list. </p></li>
<li><p>Wake lacks diversity. Not only racial diversity, but socio-economic diversity. Let me start with ratial diversity. First of all, the majority of minority students are atheletes. They do not interact with the rest of the student body, especially the caucasian community. The self segregation is very evident. Just walk into the Pit (our cafeteria) at lunch time and you will see what I am talking about.
Secondly, there is no socio-economic diversity here. The fact that Wake Forest lacks in socio-economic diversity is reflected in the attitudes of the students. The majority of the students here are very wealthy. I perceive most students as having the same attitude as one of my "friend's". He does not want to be associated with anyone that may look like they are part of the lower or lower-middle class and he calls them farmers (and other inappropriate names). </p></li>
<li><p>Campus life. What campus life? If you do not want to go greek (join a frat or sorority) then good luck making friends. I considered going greek but decided that it wasn't for me. It has been nearly impossible for me to make friends with other students who did join a frat/sorority and almost as hard to make friends who are independents (not greek). I am involved in Student Union, an Aids group, and am in a bible study. It's not that I am anti-social or have cooties. The social life here simply revolves around greek life. The fact that there is NOTHING to do in Winston-salem (which is just about the farthest thing from a college town i can imagine) makes the situation that much worse.</p></li>
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