<p>Hi, I am a student at a California Community College. I just completed my first year here with a 3.9. My high school grades and sat scores are nowhere near impressive. I need help choosing schools to apply to next year. I am a sociology major. I would do best in a small to medium sized school. I am open to all parts of the country, but I definitely want a beautiful campus. I would like a tight knit school with a lot going on on campus. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>i'm not sure how applying and what not works for transfers, but consider these: the UCs, Pitzer, Northeastern, Boston U, Gonzaga, Concordia, Seattle U, Univ of Rochester</p>
<p>stanford has a gorgeous campus if you want year-round sunshine. The campus is designed by the same person who designed NY Central Park.</p>
<p>I would love to go to Stanford if I could get in. UCLA is too close to where I am now, and I can't go to Cal because my brother starts there in the fall and I am not gonna go there with him.</p>
<p>You won't go to Cal because your brother is going to be there? So what? Cal has 30,000 students and is located in an area with over 4 million people. I doubt you two will see each other that much. Anyway, Cal isn't very close knit, so it is ok if you decide not to apply there. But as a resident of California, you cannot do much better in terms of finances and quality of education.</p>
<p>Check out the following schools:</p>
<p>Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Harvard University
Indiana University-Bloomington
Northwestern University
Stanford University
University of Chicago
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
University of Texas-Austin
University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>All of those universities have amazing Sociology programs. </p>
<p>Indiana, Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin are huge, but they have nice campuses (Indiana is gorgeous) and they are close knit, despite their size.</p>
<p>Just curious. Any stats on how many transfer students HYPMS admitted from community colleges in the last couple years?</p>
<p>Princeton has not accepted transfers of any kind for at least a decade.</p>
<p>H, S and Y usually receive over 1000 applicantions from transfer candidates and accept fewer than 100 of them. I am pretty sure they do not release information on where they come from, but I suspect most of them come from other top universities.</p>
<p>Admission as a transfer into any of the schools above is highly unlikely to say the least.</p>
<p>Anybody have any more suggestions? I most likely could not get into hyps because of my mediocre high school stats. I am plannning to take either the SATs again or the ACTs. I have done great in college and will probably have terrific recommendation letters. I think the most important factor for me in a school is a tight knit community. I have not had the college experience and I really want it.</p>
<p>More suggestions? I gave you 11 suggestions that aren't H,M,P,S and Y! LOL</p>
<p>Redlands, University of San Diego, Scripps, Santa Clara, Lewis and Clark, Willamettte, Whitman, Trinity(Conn)</p>
<p>Smith encourages transfers, and even has scholarships specifically set aside for outstanding community college students. Tight-knit and beautiful pretty much sums it up.</p>
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<p>Any stats on how many transfer students HYPMS admitted from community colleges in the last couple years?</p>
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<p>I was a Transfer Link at Harvard for five years. Typically, Harvard takes between 35-55 transfers each fall, and there is generally one student per year from a community college. I have not seen CC grads enter in the spring transfer class.</p>
<p>Most years, Stanford's transfer class is considerably larger than Harvard's, and I believe they may make a little more room for CC grads. It's an uphill climb no matter how you look at it, though.</p>
<p>Princeton generally takes zero transfers. Some years Yale has taken as few as ten, although they've expanded the program a bit since then.</p>
<p>Does anybody know anything about the sociology programs at Brown, Cornell, Barnard, or NYU?</p>
<p>I know that Brown's is excellent. My friends son did amazing research there, got a great job from school for a yr and now has a good fellowship at UCLA for their PhD program, and is loving it. I don't know much about the others, sorry, maybe someone else will chime in,</p>
<p>I was going to say Smith, but mini beat me to it.</p>