Preemptive regret, and creative writing.

Transfer Students
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<p>Erm.</p>

<p>After a long, arduous process of application, tedious road trips, whatever, I've come to this point. A forum. To beg for sage advice on what is probably a wholly unremarkable situation, so thank you in advance.</p>

<p>I finally committed to Moravian College, only to immediately regret it. It is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of college decisions. Middle of the road in all aspects and pleasing no one (and by no one, I mean me only because my parents are still thrilled so I feel awful complaining to them about it).</p>

<p>I've come to really regret putting in so little effort in high school. Aside from going to college in the first place (let alone a small, private college), my grades are another thing I should be grateful for, since I did fine, but I could have done so, so much better had I tired. From this, I can say with conviction that I'm willing to put in SO much effort to earn my transfer.</p>

<p>To give you an idea of how I did...
Accepted: Ursinus. Too expensive.
Waitlisted: Franklin and Marshall and Lafayette.
SAT scores: 1960 total. See "regret."
Graduated cum laude with a scholar's diploma.</p>

<p>So, my intended path, creative writing (specifically screenwriting), has led me to believe that I'm going to need not only all the prestige I can get, but also the best teachers to really help me write better.</p>

<p>My new search brought me to John Hopkins University. Or Emerson College. Emerson is farther than I'd like (this is a big factor for me). Still, I could get into Emerson no prob, bob, and it does have a devoted screenwriting program. BUT...I'd rather go to John Hopkins, which has a devoted creative writing major. Moravian has neither.</p>

<p>So all this said, I guess my questions are...</p>

<p>General transfer: is it a hard process?</p>

<p>How soon could I transfer? (Could this be answered by a simple Google search? Shut up.)</p>

<p>Am I just an unremarkable, kind of smart white person, or do I have a chance to get into John Hopkins? F&M acceptance rates are ~40%, while John Hopkins are ~20%...not exactly heartening. See "regret."</p>

<p>I'll get back to you if I can remember my more useful questions...but if you're reading this far, thank you!</p>

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<p>So have you already completed one year of college, or are you about to be a freshman? If you do really well in college, you could try applying to Johns Hopkins. Obviously, transfers get in. </p>

<p>Also, if expenses are an issue, keep in mind that transfers usually don’t get the same amount of financial aid as freshman.</p>

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<p>Edit to my original post, Moravian does have creative writing and I’m dumb. Gah.</p>

<p>Oh sorry, yes I will be a freshman.</p>

<p>I honestly can’t say how much of a factor finance plays - I’ve been told over and over that “we’ll work it out” but that doesn’t reassure me…sorry, that’s not very helpful, is it?</p>

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<p>according to the collegeboard website, JHU only accepts fall transfers, so you’d have to finish a year.</p>

<p>also according to collegeboard, 831 applied for transfer and 79 were accepted (roughly 10% admit rate)</p>

<p>obviously it’s hard to judge by acceptance rate alone how competitive it is since you don’t know what the applicant pool looks like, but it seems to be pretty competitive</p>

<p>get a 4.0 this year, really involve yourself, get close to a couple professors for letters of recommendation, and write great essays and you’d stand a good chance</p>

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<p>See my post #10:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1181818-list-colleges-you-can-transfer-after-one-year-university.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/1181818-list-colleges-you-can-transfer-after-one-year-university.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;