<p>I'm a potential transfer student myself, so I've been going around these forums back and forth and I've come to one conclusion. Nobody seems to have a back up plan. That or they haven't expressed it.</p>
<p>I see threads for UPENN, NYU, etc., but does anyone have a backup plan to any of these? I mean what if you DON'T make it. What will you do there?</p>
<p>So if you want, list your backup plans and maybe others will get some ideas and what not. I need some other ideas as well.</p>
<p>On another note, I am not just applying to one school. I am going to apply to numerous schools when I attempt to transfer out. The schools I attempt to transfer to are ones that should work to my advantage. My belief is that I should be accepted into at least one of these programs and in return I'll be happy about it. After talking to some friends, they've concluded that just sending an application to just one university is the worst thing you can do. Backup schools are required.</p>
<p>Schools I'd like to transfer to:
Northwestern - Econ
New York University Stern
Notre Dame Mendoza Finance
Indiana University Finance
Boston College Finance
University of Michigan Ross Finance
University of Virginia - McIntire
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
University of Texas-Austin </p>
<p>Am I going at this all wrong? If each asks for say roughly 50 dollars in application fees, that should be $450 in fees. Am I going overboard?</p>
<p>Now my rejection plan:</p>
<p>I attend a CC in Illinois. So if I am rejected from all the aforementioned schools, I'll complete the prerequisites to transfer to Uni. of Ill. at U.C. That and Uni. of Ill. at Chicago as well. DePaul and Loyolla (Chicag) Universities are on that list as well.</p>
<p>So instead of drowning yourself in a bottle of Jack Daniels after you've opened the rejection letter, what do you intend to do? Any ideas for myself? For others?</p>
<p>Halfway through last spring I realized my mistake in attempting to transfer out of Boston University -- I applied only to Harvard, Cornell (CAS), and Chicago. I was extremely lucky to have been accepted to Chicago. If I hadn't, I would have started drawing up a fresh list for the following round of applications, with the important addition of some safety schools!</p>
<p>You've made a great choice by anticipating the need for a plan B. $450 is a small price to pay for three years of academic bliss. Best of luck in your applications!</p>
<p>I've thought about waivers, but it's generally in extreme cases. Extreme poverty and what not. Seriously. My family barely meets ends, and for every fee-waiver requirement, I haven't met it. In fact my dad is on SSI. I guess I can ask regarding that.</p>
<p>I'm basically like you at a CCC and going to apply to the top schools. Cornell, Brown, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Berkeley-Haas, etc.</p>
<p>I plan on getting into at least 1 of my choices, if I don't I'm going to stick around at community college for another year, get some good EC's/internships, and apply to the same schools and some lower tier ones like UCLA (not that ucla is bad, it's a world class school).</p>
<p>My D only applied to 3 schools for sophmore transfer - big mistake. She got accepted at all three but with $20,000 gap in financial aid. (AU, CUA, & Drexel) ALSO - two schools intentionally made her wait and submit her Freshman spring grades...this may have contributed to the lack of Financial Aid. </p>
<p>Back up plan...she's staying at her same school, McDaniel in MD with 100% of demonstrated need met. - at least till next year. Next time - she'll apply to more schools, and look a little more closely at the collegeboard.com % of FA need met. ALSO, she'll apply to more outside scholarhips just like she did HS senior year. then hope & pray. Getting IN was the easy part - Getting enough money to actually be able to go is the hard part.</p>
<p>PS (freshman GPA was 3.47) will try real hard to get it higher CUA gives transfer grant aid with 3.4, AU said this year transfer merit grant cut off at about 3.7.</p>