<p>Alright, I know that the Rice transfer admissions is very friendly along with Cornell, NYU, and NU. I need to know if it is easier to get accepted from another 4 yr institution or from a Community College?</p>
<p>1 year at a CC beats 1 year at another 4 yr or 1 yr at another 4 yr beats 1 yr at CC ?</p>
<p>I wanna say the 4 year institution but don't take my word for it. The important thing is for you to go to a place where you are happy. You need to get a lot of work done and make yourself look the best for a transfer admission. It all depends on how involved you get and what you do, probably less of what the name of the school was.</p>
<p>I agree. As a college student at Rice I don't see why such a detail as 4yr vs. CC would matter much, given that I know of two transfers myself who have come from community colleges. You have to be productive, get good recs, and make a good case that you belong at Rice. The last one is hard to do because people who don't go here don't really have a good idea of what it is like (the same goes for any school really). But there are generally good things, in addition to those mentioned earlier, that are good to showcase: getting involved in your community, diversity, research experience if you have any, and wanting to affect the world in a positive way (which would have to be defended by concrete efforts on your part). </p>
<p>I understand, though. You or someone like you may need to decide what kind of college to go to, but people don't normally need to decide by the end of this semester whether they need to start volunteering at xyz or not, for example. The system makes you decide some things over others, but I really think that most of the more personal decisions which you bring about by your own efforts are more important in admissions. </p>
<p>Perhaps a different thing to think about, though not exactly identical to the above: Do something that other students don't do. Plenty of people go to 4 year or community colleges. So what? Even if there is a difference, would you really think something like that would distinguish you in a significant way in a large pool? Again, I get it, given who you are, should you attend one or the other. But what I'm saying is that the question is probably not the one you should be devoting time to answering.</p>
<p>I met only one person who had come from a community college at transfer orientation. Most transfer students were from liberal arts colleges and large, middle of the road public universities (Arizona, Boulder, etc). I sense that you'd improve your chances significantly coming from a four year college. Thankfully, Rice is making an effort to reduce its percentage of Texans. So, if you're from another state, that certainly gives you an edge. </p>
<p>Also, I've heard that Cornell requires itself to accept a certain number of students who attempt to transfer from community colleges. I don't know whether this is actually the case: a question for the Cornellians! You might also add Dartmouth to your list which, like the other schools you've listed, accepts a large number of transfer applicants.</p>
<p>That said, I don't know that you'd want to divide your undergraduate years among three institutions. You could get a similarly good--not to mention, less costly--education at your state's flagship public university, I'm sure.</p>
<p>Many students face difficulties when transferring from another university. From what I've heard, community college not only gives the students many opportunities to re-eavluate their academics for 1 year, but it also helps people transfer straight in to better schools.
It's typically a bit easier if you're coming from a community college, unless if you're doing ivy leagues, which isn't.</p>
<p>Why would you expect me to believe that most of the Rice transfer students were from another college instead of a community college? There could be half community and other half from publics.</p>
<p>From what I understand, high school seniors who got admitted as the class of 2013 get invited to Owl days, but do transfers who may have gotten in get invited to any such on campus events at around this time???</p>