I was rejected this morning from BU but in my decision it said that I am one of a select group of students that will be offered guaranteed admission as a transfer student to BU in the Fall of 2018. Did anybody else receive this offer as well and if so, do you plan on taking them up on it? I have no idea what I’m going to do, I’ve never pictured myself transferring.
Where else are you considering?
@Fishnlines29 American University in Washington DC. My safety school right now is Virginia Commonwealth University because I’ve already been accepted there
I was given this decision. BU has been a top choice during the entire process… I even applied ED. For those reasons, I will do the transfer unless this one specific school accepts me. I am surprised I wasn’t offered CGS either.
I will go off a bit of what GMKoon said in they’s situation. If BU is your number one or the best college you ultimately get accepted to, and if the money’s right, then really consider it. You got accepted to three years of BU and your final degree and college years will be at BU. If you like American University around the same amount as BU then maybe its better to pull back. The issue with these agreements is that your feelings of college and the college you attend will greatly change once you step onto campus.
Son received the same thing this AM. Whether he ultimately would go with this likely depends on what happens with other schools remaining on the list. Curious if there are any shared characteristics of students who end up in this category. Son had unbalance credentials. Exceptional SAT Score (1550 with perfect 800 math score). and also had AMC 12 achievement award. Attended top private school with touigh grading and had uneven, although upward trending, grades and likely not too much in terms of ECs which also may have hurt chances… Did you (or others who ended up in this position) also have unbalanced credentials in some way (e.g., high test score but uneven grades)…
If you are going to take them up on it, go to the cheapest, easiest school that you will not get attached to. BU doesn’t care as long as it’s accredited. Get a 4.0 (even though I think a 3.0 is the requirement?). When you put together your resume and start looking for jobs upon graduation, you don’t even have to put that first school on it, but you can use those 1st year grades to compute your GPA for grad schools, med school, law school, etc. Any extra time you can spend building your work history in some way, which can only help you when you come to Boston and look for internships, etc. Something to consider.
I was a student who received a guaranteed transfer from BU. Tbh, I’m glad I got this decision because it encouraged me to apply to other schools to transfer to. In the end, I ultimately ended up transferring to Cornell (not as a gt) because why the hell not? lol
If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
When they evaluated my credits, they were ok about it. they accepted mainly everything (I was taking general classes such as general biology). Financial aid was a little bit eh. I got around 25k I think and the cost would have been 40k for me which was not really that ideal (thankfully Cornell offered a better package). I also ended up going to my state university my first year. Tbh, if I didn’t get into Cornell, I don’t think I would have pursued the guarantee transfer. The FA in the end didnt really make me think the reputation of BU was worth it. Also, I had friends who told me of the really bad gpa deflation (ok try to deny this but it’s true, its harder to get As there) so that also turned me off.
however, tbh, I’m lowkey embarassed about my high school stats lol so that’s one thing I prefer not to talk about lol. My performance in college improved so yea…
Did you transfer to Cornell for your second year or third year?
@llegeAcceptanc Did you transfer to Cornell for your second year? That seems more difficult than junior transfer. BTW how much do they weight your High school GPA?
@woodmoon I transferred in sophomore year. Tbh I’m not sure how much they weigh high school but i’m 100% they weighed college gpa more. I personally think it’s much easier to transfer in rather than apply as a freshman (well it also depends on which college in cornell you’re applying to). It’s just that many people don’t know about it or want to transfer unless they have been gted or they go to a community college. As long as you take the general requirements the college majors want you to take (general requirements, not random classes such as ‘Music and Fish’ or anything not generic), it won’t be as bad.
I think the same can be said about vanderbilt and UNC chapel hill. Their transfer acceptance rates aren’t as bad as their freshman admit rates (of course, there is the "embarassment’ i heard of that comes with being a transfer (i hear that culture exists at vanderbilt) but for me personally it has’nt been that bad)
however, that’s only the first part. the hard part will be handling the workload at Cornell which hasn’t been horrible but it hasn’t been easy either lol. I don’t feel that bad about being a transfer because I think I can handle the work (well in two classes thsi semester i’m like around B- and B so that’s annoying but yeah). And I think the coursework isn’t as hard as my old university (then again, i took harder courses at my old university so i think that may be different. I know CC transfers who are struggling because community college was piss easy for them).
it’s just that you have smarter people in your class. What would have been the top 10% at my old university was now the average or if not below average. Now the curve isn’t as big and you get what I"m saying? lol
Also, there is a little culture shock (people here are way more driven, you dont understand untill you’re actually here). And being a transfer can be tough socially which I think is another reason why people don’t want to transfer.
So yeah…I hope this helps!
@llegeAcceptanc Thank you so much!! This is super helpful for me!! I think I am just gonna go to a state university for my first year to save some money, get good grades there. And If I don’t like it there, I’ll retake my SAT and transfer my sophomore year.