<p>What is one thing you wish you had known as you went through the whole "transfer process"?</p>
<p>The meaning of life.</p>
<p>That obtaining recommendations from a professor in the school you wish to apply to significantly increases your chances of admissions, as well as pleas for mobility.</p>
<p>I am being facetious, but wish to maintain an obscure reference.</p>
<p>start your application stuff early, and check it all over multiple times to make sure u have everything the college wants. EVERYTHING</p>
<p>I kind of wish I'd known how to say bye to my friends at my old school better. It's just difficult when they like the school and you don't, know you? It's hard for them to understand...which...is understandable. But yeah, I think that was the hardest part for me.</p>
<p>that i shoudl have put my name down for a spot in a dorm months ago even though i was deferred until my spring grades came in. now i have nowhere to live!</p>
<p>Lilacgirl: I agree, that was the hardest part for me as well</p>
<p>I wish I had been more realistic and had really thought about where I would get in. I applied to all of the UC's (except Santa Cruz) and was accepted to all of them. Now I was pretty sure that applying to schools like Riverside and Merced were a waste of money, but I had convinced myself I would not get in. Looking back I wish I would have saved the money from some of the lower UC's and applied to Stanford and Cornell instead...</p>
<p>With all that said, even if I got into Cornell or Stanford (though Stanford really would have been hard to reject) I still think I would have picked UCLA.</p>
<p>ayudell, that's the situation I'm in right now. so I should reserve a dorm huh?</p>
<p>nspeds,
"That obtaining recommendations from a professor in the school you wish to apply to significantly increases your chances of admissions..."</p>
<p>How do you get recommendations from them? Don't you have to already know them from your past? Please tell me how it works, and what hook you had with your professors.</p>
<p>allena,
Why would you have picked UCLA?
At least Stanford is known for its grade inflation.</p>
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<p>As qualified by my consequent statement: I was merely being facetious, though the more frequent patrons on this forum will understand the reference.</p>
<p>Main reason would have been money... Plus I never really considered Stanford as an option, so I did not do much research into it.</p>