<p>Hey I'm a student at Northwestern right now and looking to transfer.</p>
<p>To be honest, the way I learn is more on my own rather than going in to office hours or seeking help from teachers. Thus, I'm more than a bit worried about my professor recommendations for transferring. Aside from the staff here being known notoriously for dismissing undergrads and caring only about their research, I haven't had much time nor given much effort into developing connections with the professors here at NU. </p>
<p>I was wondering how much weight is put on the professor recommendations when transferring? and if i'm screwed because I don't really know my professors on a personal level yet?</p>
<p>Any help or insight would be GREATLY appreciated. </p>
<p>I'm looking to transfer to Duke, Stanford, Carnegie, UCBerkeley, and still "shopping".</p>
<p>Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>professor recommendations play an important role also.It let’s the school know that you dedicated to your department. Just stop by office hours have a brief conversation with them building up some rapport and ask for a recommendation. What are your stats?</p>
<p>After 1 quarter here at NU, i have a 3.7 gpa, all straight A-'s (we go by A and A- correlating to a 4.0 and 3.7 respectively, damn this system). i’m a biomedical engineering major. </p>
<p>In college I’m currently in a highly selective drumming group, I work as a basketball referee at a local middle school, I’m part of a Christian Intervarsity, and this month I’m signing up for a Physician Shadowing program. Is this too little? should i be doing more? </p>
<p>In high school i took a total of 12 APs, 5 for both Senior and Junior year and 2 for Sophmore year. I got 5s on all of them except for two 4s in APUSH(i think) and Spanish. I had about a 4.4 weighted gpa, i think around a 3.6 unweighted. I was in various high school clubs but wasn’t particularly involved in leadership for clubs. My high school life focused more on volunteer work. I volunteered at a hospital my fresh/soph year. Two summers ago I was a volunteer English teacher in Taiwan.
I’m an Asian American. Also I have a sister that went to Stanford, graduated '07. </p>
<p>Theres some other random things in there, but I cant think right now.
Can anyone chance me??? Transferring to Duke or Stanford has been my yearlong goal and focus, but I have a feeling those recs are going to hurt me because I haven’t developed that great of connections with profs yet. </p>
<p>Please reply!!! It would be most helpful =]</p>
<p>I would say Duke and UC Berkley are matches. I think you are in for Carnegie Mellon. Stanford is pretty hard to get into because of the low acceptance rates but you definitely have a good shot.</p>
<p>Duke and Stanford have awful transfer rates (barely anyone transfers out), so you might want to look elsewhere to be safe. Brown has a bit better of a transfer rate, and Vanderbilt is another great place.</p>
<p>I’d also take a look at Hopkins, UVA, and UNC chapel hill.</p>
<p>you don’t have any chance at UC berkley for fall 2010. this is not due to your personal stats, but rather to the fact that berkley only takes junior transfers. wait a year then do it, if you would like to 
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<p>I wish you the best my friend, may you have all your dreams accomplished.</p>
<p>hey guys thanks for your feedback i really appreciate it. I’m not sure if I’d like Hopkins UVA or UNC. Perhaps I’ll try Brown. does anyone who went to Brown have any any input on what their experience was like there? </p>
<p>do you know if the same policy for berkeley applies to the rest of the UC schools? (i.e. UCLA?)</p>
<p>umm I think so, double check. But I heard UC schools give no aid to out of state’ers</p>
Why do you think NU isn’t fit for you?