To people that has successfully transfered to their dream school.

<p>Do you guys have any advice to share for future transfer students trying to get in? or anything we should expect?</p>

<p>I will probably transfer from Penn State to NYU. I just say go into your current school with an open mind. Don't think you'll hate it and go to a school you can possibly see yourself staying at for 4 years. Work your butt off and get a good GPA that first semester. BTW I'll be a sophomore at NYU next fall probably. I awaiting Penn and Boston College though, but NYU was top choice. Things will work out and listen to yourself and not your peers. Everyone though I was crazy to leave PSU, even my parents, but that scene isn't me.I had to go to PSU because it was the only school i was accepted at last year. I was waitlisted everywhere pretty much. I am thrilled and so were my friends when they saw how happy I was. Don't be surprised if you can't get recs from teachers. Also shine in your smaller classes. All my lecture courses turned me down for recs even though i got A's and B's in their classes and met with them frequently. Get close with your advisor and tell her/him your plans as soon as they come to you. I told mine that I wasn't sure if i wanted to be at PSU in the beginning, and she supported me. Finally make a short list of schools to apply to and have fun. If you transfer you will always have to tell people you spent time at X university, and make memories.</p>

<p>it's pretty easy, get tons of As (use ratemyprofessor) and do ALL your major requirements before you apply. that's it, most UCs for example (including Berkeley) don't even look at every student's essay. Good grades, especially in your major, matter most.</p>

<p>Put your heart into your essays, I was not polite. I wrote my essays as if I was asking myself these questions and the answer was to be put in my personal journal.</p>

<p>Truly enjoy the school your at now. If you think class sucks and the material is boring (except for the occasional economics course, which IMHO are designed to put you to sleep) then it's only gonna get worse from there.</p>

<p>Don't go to a school JUST because of the dorm life, greek scene, or party atmosphere.</p>

<p>Good grades and test scores help too.</p>

<p>Berkeley FYI is my dream school.</p>

<p>1) Get to know your professors. Speak up in class, meet with them during office hours. Will help both your grades and your recommendations.
2) Continue doing your high school ECs
3) Keep the grades high.</p>

<p>I agree with everything said here...I knew before I stepped foot on my campus in San Diego that i would not graduate from here...work hard is all I can say. Keep your eye on the prize and go at it 100 mph. Grades are important, so is getting to know your professors...make sure you stick out to them in class. If you can get on a first name basis with all of them, you are on the right path.</p>

<p>i <3 this thread. its exactly what i want to respond to next year. everyone's advice is so helpful. thanks for starting this and to all the reply!</p>

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it's pretty easy, get tons of As (use ratemyprofessor) and do ALL your major requirements before you apply. that's it, most UCs for example (including Berkeley) don't even look at every student's essay. Good grades, especially in your major, matter most.

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<p>The easiness only applies to the UC system.</p>

<p>you're right, I was thinking more in terms of Berkeley and UCLA...</p>

<p>Even Cal and UCLA are easy to transfer into.</p>

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Even Cal and UCLA are easy to transfer into.

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<p>I agree.</p>

<p>Not that I wish to self-aggrandize, but I bet that more than half the admitted students at Cal and UCLA probably would not be admitted at UVA or Georgetown.</p>

<p>I don't know anything about Georgetown, so I cannot comment on it. UVa, I believe, has similar transfer agreements with Virginia community colleges, but I'm also not too knowledgeable in this regard.</p>

<p>In any case, there's quite a bit of resentment at Berkeley from freshman admits at the transfer students. The general sentiment across campus is that they are not subject to as stringent admissions requirements and are able to evade some of the more challenging "weeder" classes that one encounters in the heavily impacted majors. (There are indeed 1500 SAT I-scoring students who fail classes in the sciences.) I make no judgement either way as I don't think of Berkeley as being an extremely difficult school to which to gain admission, either as a freshman or as a transfer student. It is, however, extremely difficult to consistently perform well here.</p>

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I make no judgement either way as I don't think of Berkeley as being an extremely difficult school to which to gain admission. It is, however, extremely difficult to consistently perform well here.

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<p>I remember reading somewhere that out-of-state freshman admissions into Cal is about as difficult as Harvard.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, out-of-state freshman admission is ridiculously competitive. Not as difficult as Harvard, but around as difficult as Brown or Columbia.</p>

<p>i know a girl from france who was rejected at berkeley, but in at harvard, princeton and yale. pretty crazy. goes to show how much priority california residents have = )</p>

<p>(as a freshman, by the way)</p>

<p>my friend was rejected from cal as a freshman but she was accepted to harvard, duke and cornell..</p>

<p>Not that I wish to self-aggrandize, but I bet that more than half the admitted students at Cal and UCLA probably would not be admitted at UVA or Georgetown.</p>

<p>that's probably true for transfer students but not for freshman admits</p>

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that's probably true for transfer students but not for freshman admits

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<p>You are right. Sorry, I should have qualified my statement.</p>

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<p>I think most Berkeley and UCLA (transfer) admits could stand a chance provided they had decent/good SAT scores. But you're still right, however, since I don't think a lot of the Berkeley/UCLA admits could do well on the SAT.</p>

<p>Okay, let me have it.</p>