<p>Okay, So I kind of asked some of the Q's here before, but I never got the perfect answer. Here it goes:</p>
<p>-Would applying to schools(transfer) for two years in a row (after freshman year and after sophomore year if rejected the first time around) hurt ones chances?</p>
<p>-What about the WHY TRANSFER essay? Can it be EXACTLY the same? Would adcoms feel bored while reading it the second time?</p>
<p>-Do introductory course credits transfer?</p>
<p>If you’re really keen on transferring, you must change the essay to reflect a further year of personal and academic growth. Likewise, your reasons for transferring are likely different or perhaps more complex.</p>
<p>If the ‘why’ essay didn’t get you in the first time, it probably won’t the second time.</p>
<p>There was a poster here who applied to Dartmouth as a soph transfer and was waitlisted. He applied the following year as a junior tansfer and was rejected. Who knows?</p>
<p>^thanks for the anecdote, hmom 
Long time no see. What if my essay and college GPA are good enough but my then my high school stats ruin everything?</p>
<p>Students aren’t told the reasons for their rejections, so you won’t know if it is your high school stats that ruined everything or some other unknown factor. </p>
<p>Applying for your sophomore year only adds one full semester (and perhaps a second semester midterm) of grades. If your high school stats are weak, then one full semester of college work may not be enough to show what you are capable of accomplishing as a college student. </p>
<p>Individual school policies determine if courses transfer or not. Schools would let me know which of my classes transferred and for how many credits in my acceptance packet.</p>
<p>I will say this: transferring is a pain. Applying twice to colleges was enough- I couldn’t imagine doing it three times.</p>
<p>If all your ducks are in a row–great grades, great scores, great recs from current profs, great contributions on campus–I think you’d have a shot anywhere as a junior transfer despite high school performance.</p>
<p>^ I will keep that in mind and work towards achieving it, hopefully. </p>
<p>Do you think its, in any way, worth applying to my top choices (Reaches) as a sophomore just in case… give myself the benefit of the doubt? Worth it at all?</p>