<p>Searchai,
You sound very authoritative, would you mind giving details of your experience with transfer admissions? From you posting history it looks like you’re currently a sr in HS.</p>
<p>I, myself, am entitled with many details to the knowledge, but it does not mean I know everything. Im just with you helping the kids who need to transfer.
But I do may need the same advices from you and others again later.</p>
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<p>Full disclosure: I’ve been researching college admissions since 2004, have a child who has gone through both fr and transfer admissions for selective colleges and have been involved in the Transfer Students subforum for the past 3 cycles.</p>
<p>"Full disclosure: I’ve been researching college admissions since 2004, have a child who has gone through both fr and transfer admissions for selective colleges and have been involved in the Transfer Students subforum for the past 3 cycles. "</p>
<p>Fine I think we both have something similar, so let’s just keep it that way.</p>
<p>Hey everybody.</p>
<p>Can you please help me find the email address to Penn? I sent them emails to 2 different email addresses (one to Admission Email add and one to Info request add) and none was deliverable.</p>
<p>Have you tried?:</p>
<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Contact Us](<a href=“http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/contact/]Penn”>http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/contact/)</p>
<p>They must not want emails as they don’t list one, you might have to call.</p>
<p>THanks Entonom.</p>
<p>Turned out I made a mistake in typing. I sent them an email already.</p>
<p>Is there any special topic on CC about Penn? I’m so interested in Penn’s politics program. </p>
<p>Well, I also come up with a big question though. It’s about financial aid for transfer students. Can transfer students have financial aid and can be met full needs?</p>
<p>There is a subforum for Penn under the Ivy League forum.</p>
<p>FA for transfers varies from school to school. Some colleges use the same policy for transfers as they do for fr, others are more restrictive for transfers. You’ll have to look on the websties of the schools you’re interested in. If the website isn’t clear, give the school a call, FA is definitely not something you want to make assumptions about.</p>
<p>Hi. I am currently a Freshmen at Tulane and I am looking to transfer to McGill next Fall. I am currently taking 15 credits and have a total of 15 credit from Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>How is transferring to a Canadian school like McGill different or is it? Is McGill harder to get into for Americans?</p>
<p>Any insight would be appreciated. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’m a community college student from north seattle community college. I am interested in transfering to UC Berkeley, UT Austin, UIUC, UW. How can I know what my Seattle CC course in WA state equivalent to the other states course?? is there any website that will tell us that?</p>
<p>Entonom.</p>
<p>I also think I should ask schoosl frankly about FA. But isn’t it gonna be a little awkward to ask for money when I even haven’t been accepted yet. </p>
<p>Gosh, Penn email address still drives me nuts. It just keeps rejecting my email. I’m calling them!</p>
<p>Hi cfreshmen & hkriclb and welcome to CC!</p>
<p>cfresh, I wish I could help you, but I don’t know much about entrance into Canadian schools in general, and even less about the transfer process. I just took a look at their website and it wasn’t very helpful either, it refers to 2nd degree students as “transfers”, but that’s not what you’re interested in. CC has a McGill subforum (under Alphabetic list of Colleges), it seems pretty active, so I’d advise posting there as well as on this forum.</p>
<p>hkriclb, I don’t think there’s a website that gives this kind of information as each school has it’s own policy towards transfer credits. I think you’re going to have to look at the college websites and possibly correspond with the schools, if you send them the course descriptions, they may be able to tell you the likelihood that they’ll accept them. One comment, I notice that other than UDub (I’m assuming that UW isn’t Wisconsin or Wyoming), all of your schools are OOS publics. They tend to be more difficult to get into as an OOS student and you will likely get no FA. I know that Cal doesn’t have merit aid for transfers, but am not familiar with the others.</p>
<p>link,
When I referred to calling colleges if their websites are unclear, I meant to ask about their FA policies towards transfer students, not about your specific FA situation. You’re not asking for money, just for clarification about how they distribute FA to transfers. FA is often on a first come first served basis and schools have a certain amount allotted each year, since transfer decisions are made after fr admissions, money may be dwindling at some schools, while others guarantee full need at all times.</p>
<p>Oops, I’m glad that I asked you before making calls to Penn. </p>
<p>So I emailed Penn about retaking SAT as college student. And here’s what they say: </p>
<p>You may retake the test but you must submit your high school test. Also, if you retake the test as a college student, all your scores will be looked at. </p>
<p>Does it mean they put more emphasis on the SAT that I took as high school student rather than the one that I took as college student? Isn’t it kind of different from Middlebury as what I posted few days ago? </p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Help: My academic advisor WAS one of my closest professors? Will the transfer applicant reviewers notice or will this just by another formulaic letter from an advisor?</p>
<p>Also, if a college only asks for one letter from faculty, is it ok to get one outside of your major?</p>
<p>I am currently an Computer Science major at Hood College (Sophomore) with a 2.51 cumulative GPA.THis is mainly due to my low grades in Spanish, as i was learning the class as a third language, as i am fluent in dutch and english. I want to know what my chances are for getting transfer admission.I understand my GPA is not as good as it should be but i am working on it, and have previously enrolled in winter and summer school sessions at Hood College where I attained a 4.00 and 3.75 GPA respectively.</p>
<p>I am aiming to get a 3.5 semester gpa by the end of this year, which should put me at about a 2.87 cumulative at the time of application. I hope to attain a 3.0 gpa by the end of the spring semester.</p>
<p>I am looking at transferring as an undeclared major. If granted admission i would like to complete core requirements and declare a business major.</p>
<p>I am an International Student from Europe, with a Duke of Edinburgh bronze award. And i have completed a finance internship for Royal Dutch Shell</p>
<p>These are the schools i am looking at:</p>
<p>(1) University of Virginia
(2) University of Richmond
(3) American University
(4) University of Maryland
(5) James Madison University
(6) George Mason University
(7) Virginia Tech</p>
<p>I’m a high school junior, but there’s a possibility of me graduating by the end of this year (I’ll be 16). If I did this, I was planning on going to a state school (ASU) for 2 years until I’m 18, then transferring over to whatever college I choose (since there’s no way my parents would let me move out of the house at 16, haha). I’m really trying to think this through, and I have a few questions:</p>
<p>1) Is it wise to graduate with a 3.6 GPA in high school (possibly a bit higher)? I can easily get into a state school, but would it affect my chances of transferring later? I’m not interested in Ivy Leagues at all. The most competitive school I am somewhat interested in is the University of Texas. Would this have a huge negative impact me later when I transfer, even if I have a good college GPA? </p>
<p>2) If I didn’t fulfill a course requirement in high school (for example, UT requires half a semester of economics, which I don’t currently have, but I could get next semester anyway), but I fulfill it in college, will that somehow effect my transfer chances? Or will it not matter as long as I took the class somehow?</p>
<p>3) Would they look down at the fact I’d only be 18 when I transfer?</p>
<p>Thanks for the help, I would really like to graduate early, but I don’t want it to hurt my chances of getting into a good school.</p>
<p>ENTOMOM,</p>
<p>This topic caught my attention and is making me worry lol… </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/common-application/79****-different-version-common-app.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/common-application/79****-different-version-common-app.html</a></p>
<p>Its about how the alternate versions of the CA is only supposed to be MINOR changes? and not whole essays thats customized…</p>
<p>Edit: ok i have no idea why the link isn’t working. but the thread is from the college admissions < common application < different version common app thread.</p>
<p>kor,
That’s not the way it’s been in the past. You may have to call up the CA and find out if a change has been made this year. You can only make alternate versions after submitting one application, so you will want to be sure of how this works first.</p>
<p>Hmm…thanks for that entomom. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that i CAN switch my whole essay since they have that information on the CA Faqs…but i idk why it says “only to make minor changes” </p>
<p>Like you said, everyone does it though, right? I hope the colleges don’t think of it like that i had an advantage from other applicants because mine is really customized for their school? and other applicants were more general?</p>
<p>Colleges aren’t going to know what you sent to other schools, nor do I think they care. I’m just wondering why the CA finds it necessary to give such a comment. The CA is intended to help students with filling out applications, not bind them with restrictions. I’ll try to keep an eye out on the CA subforum and see what develops.</p>