Purdue Or Transfer Or Reapply

Student Lounge International Students
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<p>I have been accepted for Purdue Fall 2007. I was rejected at MIT/Caltech/HYP and waitlisted at Penn. Should I join Purdue and then try for a transfer at these places again ( and berkeley/UCLA/Uchicago) or should I drop an year and re-apply?</p>

<p>I am an international student from India.
SAT1- 2190
SAT II ( PCM) - 760/740/740</p>

<p>Have decent ECs/superb recs/ Full GPA. </p>

<p>Essays werent personalized at all. I guess that is what screwed up my application for Fall 2007 at HYP and the others.</p>

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<p>Well by the sound of things it looks like you'll be studying engineering. Transfer admission is much harder than freshman but at the same time it's not guaranteed it will work out next year as well. So to be on the same side both college wise and personal reputation at high school wise (the reason why I am not waiting), I'd say go to Purdue. Purdue is better for engineering than HYP... only Caltech and MIT are better I think.</p>

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<p>I wouldn't bother reapplying. American colleges are reluctant to change their mind. It'd be high risk.</p>

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<p>If you don't like it later on, you can try transfering (very hard) but definitely go for Purdue.</p>

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<p>I'd say to reapply.. take a gap year if ur not sure about ur school </p>

<p><a href="http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/time_off/timeoff.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/prospective/applying/time_off/timeoff.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<pre><code> "Occasionally students are admitted to Harvard or other colleges in part because they accomplished something unusual during a year off. While no one should take a year off simply to gain admission to a particular college, time away almost never makes one a less desirable candidate or less well prepared for college."
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<p>While this may be true, you have to keep in mind that it must be something really exceptional. I highly doubt that some social service thing will get you in. Of course, if your year off helps cure cancer, then your chances are significantly better...</p>

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<p>Harvard encourages its students to take an year off after they're admitted to travel/work/enjoy before joining college. That kind of sounds scary heh.</p>

<p>Again, it depends on your interest of study and it's not guaranteed you'd get in after an year too.</p>

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<p>well the harv site says 75 out of 1000 applicants were admitted as transfers last year. Now does the fact that im an international student affect my chances?</p>

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<p>"well the harv site says 75 out of 1000 applicants were admitted as transfers last year. Now does the fact that im an international student affect my chances?"</p>

<p>Now harvard is accepting 40 or sth like that-</p>

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<p>Harvard says that it doesn't discriminate between internationals and domestics.</p>

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<p>I totally believe that but they still seem to have some kind of quota otherwise, both of us being Asians, I believe we would agree that Harvard would then be lie 30% Asians. ;)</p>