<p>Helping out my son who no longer wants to stay at his current university.</p>
<p>He currently has a 3.2 cumulative GPA (as of first semester of sophomore year) at a top 30 university and he's looking to transfer to another top university for Fall 2014. Ideally, he'd like to apply to schools within the top 50 ranks.</p>
<p>We are also looking for a school that offers need-based financial aid for transfers. (One reason for transferring out of his current institution is because of bad financial aid)</p>
<p>Does anyone have any recommendations for where he will have a good chance at admissions? </p>
<p>We're not familiar with how competitive he'll be at many top 50 schools (with his current GPA in mind) so we're in dire need of assistance with forming a list with reasonable admission chances.</p>
<p>As with fr admissions, need based FA is often more generous at the schools with higher endowments. However, even some highly selective colleges (eg. Brown & Columbia) have limited FA for transfers. You really need to go to the college websites and read their policies, and call/email schools if they don’t give details. </p>
<p>Generally speaking, a 3.2 is rather low for transferring to a selective college. As a jr transfer, his college record will be given much more weight than what he did in HS. For a lower COA, your IS publics may be the best bet.</p>
<p>Might anyone know if he’ll have at least a marginal chance at some of the schools listed below (based on low gpa)?</p>
<p>Which schools have a really high accepted GPA and will likely be a waste of application money? Any of these schools known for not giving good need-based financial aid?</p>
<p>Tulane
Wake Forest
Case Western
Pitzer
Richmond
Lehigh
Connecticut College
UNC-Chapel Hill
Syracuse
Clark University</p>
<p>***We’ve added a lot of match and a few safety schools but would like to add a short list of selective privates just to see if they’d accept him and give reasonable aid.</p>