<p>I’m wondering if its worth it to go to American while planning to transfer to another college after the first year? Does going to American make it easier to transfer to more selective colleges such as Georgetown or similar universities?</p>
<p>I’m surprised posters haven’t jumped on you for the idea of using American as a stop-over to Georgetown.</p>
<p>To understand why you would want to do such a thing, it’s important to take into consideration what major you’re interested in, as well as you’re motives…do you just want to be in D.C.? And might not get into Georgetown as a freshman?</p>
<p>Check out this post - its a student’s perspective on a comparison of AU, GWU, and G-town. [Comparing</a> AU to GW to Georgetown]( <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/american-university/77280-can-current-students-please-discuss-pros-cons-au-2.html#post1084076]Comparing”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/american-university/77280-can-current-students-please-discuss-pros-cons-au-2.html#post1084076)</p>
<p>This is Georgetowns transfer Rate
[2006</a> Transfer Acceptance Rates]( <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/435016-urm-transfer-chances-top-schools.html]2006”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/435016-urm-transfer-chances-top-schools.html)
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<p>See what it takes to transfer in to G-town; check out some of the postings from the 2007 transfer thread
[thread=346651]2007 Official Transfer Result Thread[/thread] </p>
<p>[ul]
[li]A sophomore posted being accepted for transfer to Georgetown after being rejected as an incoming freshman</p>[/li]
<p>[li][post=4553850]Accepted to GT from Colgate[/post]</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>][Accepted to GT from William and Mary](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/346651-2007-official-transfer-results-thread-8.html#post427”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/346651-2007-official-transfer-results-thread-8.html#post427</a></em>***)</p>
<p>[li][post=4267821]Rejected to GT from GWU[/post]</p>[/li]
<p>[li][post=4168836]Accepted to GT from GWU[/post]</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]</p>
<p>I couldn’t find anything about transfer from AU to Georgetown. IMO I would recommend attempting to transfer to Georgetown from an exclusive small private LAC where it would be obvious you where transfering up to a more appropriate major at a competative school.</p>
<p>what a disrespectful and ignorant post. seems you have a lot of your own college researching to do before you come posting on CC .</p>
<p>Actually, I know a lot of people who do this. I have one friend who transferred after two years at AU and now is happily learning at GT. AU is a great school, but if you have the money and the GPA at AU, it wouldn’t be too hard. You would probably have to get upwards of a 3.8 to transfer though.</p>
<p>Here you go again, HCM. There was no call for such a reply. This was a legitimate question. </p>
<p>Your constant cheerleading for AU is tiresome and not very helpful. Perhaps you need to review the post from last year called “Some ground rules for AU”, on the top of the first page.</p>
<p>i was the one who got the moderators to put the warning about “ground rules” up! um…i wasn’t the problem, and the incredible anger and hostility of those concerned were both inaccurate and off-putting to those who wanted to learn about the school. happily, the ones concerned seem to have been permanently dismissed from CC. IF you’d follow posts and threads throughout CC you’d see many people feel comfortable cheering for their schools and debating, sometimes strongly with others. “constant cheerleading” is an erroneous statement. many, many parents and students speak more strongly than i , but..whatever. i know the prospectives get it.</p>
<p>I remember very well what went on last spring, and what precipitated the moderator’s post. Please review this portion of it:</p>
<p>“It also does not mean that you have the right to expect a poster to always be positive about an experience at a school. The unfortunate negative experiences at any school should be allowed to be made public. Accept the fact that your beloved institution (and I guarantee that I can be just as passionate about my alma mater!) is not without its lumps. Be kind to those who have had bad experiences, as you may learn how to improve your school!”</p>
<p>I have read many, many of your posts. From my perspective, the above quote addresses precisely what you have had a tendency to do. You have shown very little tolerance for people who express negative opinions about AU. </p>
<p>I admit that this has little to do with the topic of this thread. But I still say your post above replying to the original poster was unnecessarily rude.</p>
<p>I got to totally agree. I don’t want this to turn nasty at all, I just came on here for two reasons: 1) to help future AU students 2) because hcm frustrated me beyond belief. I completely agree everyone has a right to make a point on this forum, but you berate every person who does not agree with your opinions. It really leads to a distorted view of AU. It’s one thing to be proud of your school, as I am, it’s another to be offended when anyone does not compare AU to selective ivies. I respect your right to say whatever you want, but know many of the other AU students who have read this forum with me have laughed out loud at your constant cheerleading of our school.</p>
<p>Rasorvid, to put your question another way, you are asking, “Is AU sufficiently academically challenging so that if I succeed there, other schools will view me as being worthy of admission?” To which I say, if it is so challenging, why not just stay at AU? Once you get there, you may find that you like it! (For reasons I don’t fully understand myself, I’m a supporter of AU and I think you should give it a serious look as your one and only college.)</p>
<p>All that being said, I think you need to direct your question to someone else. Specifically, you should ask TRANSFER admissions counselors at the schools you think you will be ultimately interested in. They’re the ones who can definitively answer your question; all of us are just speculating.</p>
<p>Whoa! Again, the purpose of this thread has been turned into an attack of those who present their opinions. It is obvious that this thread has turned into a HCM bashing instead of the original offensive post. As an AU student, I find it kind of sad that we allow such posts to go unchallenged. Of course, everyone has the right to their own opinion and there is no reason for jkazoo to bring up the “rules” of CC.</p>
<p>Jkazoo – I too follow HCM’s posts. She is an active participant across the board with many schools. Yes, she seems partial to AU, but I see her information over the years as helpful, supportive and corrective. My sense is that she speaks from some professional position and seems highly knowledgeable. But what really captured my attention more is your reference to the moderator’s warning at the top of AU’s site. These rules were posted based on the demeaning, discriminatory comments of a few students. I was very involved in these threads and the posters broke all the rules of CC and there was a lot of private interaction with the moderators, including my own. My involvement helped to get rid of them. Although, sometimes I feel they are still active in some way (especially the last statement by Aupolikid which sounds very similar to prior statements by these students….“but know many of the other AU students who have read this forum with me have laughed out loud at your constant cheerleading of our school.” If anyone wants to pm me, I can tell you more of what went on back then. Thanks to HCM and some others, we were able to clean up AU’s site.</p>
<p>No school is perfect; however, there have been some very derogatory AU posts and at times the posts need to be defended. Most AU students for whatever reason (probably too busy) ignore the damaging posts unlike most of the schools on CC. Most kids at other schools don’t tolerate it. Over the years, I have seen this defensive behavior at all schools. I don’t know too many schools who would sit there and let someone come on with a new thread as a stepping stone for a whole lot better school. I agree with HCM and pswillia that this is not the right forum!</p>
<p>Back to the original question: why spend $45k at a school you are determined not to like if, instead, you could simply take a gap year and boost your resume sufficiently to perhaps be able to go where you’d like?</p>
<p>Connies - </p>
<p>OK, let’s forget about what went on last spring - water under the bridge - although if you look at those threads, you’ll see that I posted there as well. </p>
<p>With regard to this thread: </p>
<p>1) I don’t see anything “offensive”, “disrespectful” or “ignorant” about the original post. For the record, I certainly don’t agree with the approach the OP is suggesting. However… </p>
<p>2) HCM’s post WAS offensive and disrespectful. There were far more mature and effective ways to answer, which others have managed to do. Why you defend HCM’s reply is beyond me.</p>
<p>jkazoo - as pswillia has already said, this is not the forum for a transfer discussion. As a satisfied AU student, I find it very distasteful that someone would actually start a thread in the AU forum to use the school as a stepping stone and in so doing dishonor the school. I find it hard to believe anyone would find this appropriate. I find this to be offensive and insulting to my school that someone would start this type of tread in the AU forum. I am in agreement with ahoo2u, HCM and pswillia and about the inappropriateness of the OP.</p>
<p>Well, I guess to answer the question, I’d say that AU would be a pretty good ‘stepping stone.’ Its not very difficult to make an A, especially in the introductory classes, so it may help make your transcript look good if you want to leave. Its also not too hard to get leadership positions in clubs, depending on the club.</p>
<p>I have no bone to pick about AU or Georgetown; I know one student at AU who’s very happy there. Not my kid.</p>
<p>I will, however, address the original question: One should not go anywhere with the express intention of transferring out. Three reasons for this:
- Focusing on transferring stops you from finding another school that you might really like. While a wonderful school, Georgetown isn’t the only one at which you could be happy. Broaden your horizons a bit and you could find that other school.
- If you go into a school with the attitude that you won’t like it, you’ll be right. You’ll spend at least one miserable year there. Is that something you really want to do?
- If you’re really unhappy at the school you’re going to due to your initial attitude (see #2), you will be sabotaging your own efforts to get superior grades that would allow the transfer. The mindset is very different than that of a student who goes in positively, and then finds that a school is not to his/her liking and decides to transfer. You are cutting yourself off from the ability to learn and grow, which is detrimental on so many levels.</p>
<p>Now back to your regularly scheduled argument.</p>
<p>I was just thinking that its not so disrespectful or awful to try and transfer out before attending a college. If someone has a goal and they work hard for it, good for them. Hopefully they won’t dislike the school, but if their dream is to attend georgetown then that is a commendable goal. good luck rasorvid.</p>
<p>Gosh, I’m sorry you are so unhappy there. You might have chosen to tell rasorvid the things you like about your alma mater so that he might take those into consideration in considering his next move. </p>
<p>But if there just isn’t anything, I’m sorry for your parents having to pay $45k a year (or for that matter $5k a year) for you to be so unhappy. College should be a happier time than this, especially when there are so many wonderful, lower-cost schools out there.</p>
<p>Mini, who is your post addressed to? I don’t see anyone who has posted above who indicated they were unhappy at AU.</p>
<p>Are you happy at AU? What are the things you like about the school?</p>
<p>Mini…just leave!</p>