<p>I was offered something called "priority transfer" status after being rejected from Gtown's extended waitlist.</p>
<p>What exactly does that mean? Is it nearly a sure thing, like what Cornell and Emory do with their "guaranteed transfer"? Is it virtually meaningless? Somewhere in between?</p>
<p>I’m a rising senior at gtown; got the same letter summer of my senior year of hs. i can empathize with how let down you must feel; but:
a. only about 6 people get that letter annually
b.if yours is identical to mine, you have the option to defer for a year and join the class of 2014, which means you were never technically rejected (just accepted conditionally 
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c. Whereas I earned a 3.95 my freshman year of college, I seem to recall being told that with a 3.5 at one’s previous insitution, priority transfer status was qualitatively the same as a guarantee.</p>
<p>The question now becomes: would you really want to transfer? and that is a question for a different thread.</p>
<p>Wow! That’s actually fantastic news.</p>
<p>I’m at University of Virginia this year. It’s a great school and I’m excited to go there, but I think that the SFS is a big enough step up in terms of academics and prestige that it’s worth the inconveniences of changing schools.</p>
<p>So, my neutral position is, yes, I’d like to transfer. But I’m definitely going to give UVa a chance, and if I end up liking it more than I thought, I will stay. Now, I was given similar news by Northwestern about my transfer chances, but that’s a different story…</p>
<p>while you’re at it, apply to an ivy or two. sfs is great, but it has quite a few prereqs (map of the modern world, language profficiency, &c.), such that i’d say it is the hardest school at gtown to transfer into. plus, and they don’t tell you this, we have a relatively puny endowment–about 975 million at last disclosure. this does make a difference. i dont think youd suffer any by studying ir at penn for instance, unless maybe you wanted to enter the foreign service fresh out of college. something to consider…</p>