<p>Hello everyone. I hope to transfer to a school that I was rejected from for freshman admission. I checked on the website for transfer applicants and it said that they strongly suggest that you do not apply to transfer after one year if you were previously denied admission. Now, I know someone who was granted transfer after being denied. What does this mean? Should I not apply to transfer at all? Are my chances greatly reduced?</p>
<p>nhsharvard - We would need more information to answer your question. Such as your intended major, what you have taken already. </p>
<p>chris90 - hmm, I've never seen that before. Have you asked the person who got in what their thoughts are?</p>
<p>To both (and to all others): please post questions like this on a separate thread - not likely to get noticed here, for one thing; and we would like to keep this thread as a General Information thread as well. Thanks.</p>
<p>I have a question for the fall of 09 transfer. </p>
<p>I plan on applying to a few schools for the fall of 09 as a sophmore. My HS GPA was pretty much crap, so I am buckling down and have the mind set of doing well since I want to transfer. My question is:</p>
<p>If I apply to schools after only one semester and they ask for second semester grades, does that mean I have a shot at getting in? I would assume they wouldn't ask for the second semester grades if they weren't interested?</p>
<p>Also, do EC's and community service not matter as much when you apply as a transfer? I do have filming and acting as a decent EC and have alot of work experience. I am going to volunteer at my temple, but I dont want to come off as padding my application, since I will be applying in January. Obviously I dont have much when it comes to being in that area.</p>
<p>How does transferring during your freshman year work? For instance I want to transfer to NYU and the requirement is 30-32 credits. I will have 20 credits by the end of the first semester so I should meet the requirements by the end of the year. Acceptance letters arrive around June though don't they? How will they be able to evaluate me without my college GPA or do they wait a little longer to receive it then reply?</p>
<p>I'm wondering, I was accepted into Northwestern when I applied last year as a senior in High School. Unfortunately I couldn't go because of financial reasons. I'm now a freshman at UVA and am looking to transfer into Northwestern. Is the fact I was accepted as a freshman beneficial to my application?</p>
<p>how important is the high school report and SAT/ACT when applying for junior yr ?</p>
<p>I have a few questions. </p>
<p>I'm currently a first year at a four-year (quarter-system) university (a UC). I want to transfer to UC Berkeley my first year, but when I turn in my transfer application, there will be no grades on the application since I am still taking the courses. How will they determine whether or not they want to accept me? I didn't see a place where you could put old high school information such as SATs (Hopefully, they don't look at it, though, haha).</p>
<p>Also, if I apply this year and get rejected, can I apply to Berkeley again my sophomore year, assuming I am below the maximum number of units allowed? </p>
<p>I know about the UC Reciprocity Agreement, where if you fulfill your college's GEs, you fulfill Berkeley's as well. Would it hurt me to apply even if I will be unable to take (due to class sizes and sequence of classes) one GE class?</p>
<p>If someone could answer those questions that would be wonderful. I've been calling Berkeley's transfer building for days during their office hours, but they have yet to pick up the phone.</p>
<p>Question:</p>
<p>I'm a Sophomore at a 4-year, Tier 4 university. My GPA's 3.69, but I had to withdraw during my 1st Freshman semester because of health problems. I currently have 24 credits. I know there's probably no way I'm getting into any of the Ivies for Fall 2009, or Top 25, for that matter, but I'm dead set on getting into either Northwestern of Georgetown. Being a Political Science major, I know that their Gov't departments are top-notch. I called Northwestern and gave their Transfer coordinator a brief summary of my resume, and he said that my profile was respectable, but I know that he probably has to say that to everyone. My question is: would it be best for me to stay at my present school and do exceptionally well, or try and transfer with the chance that I might fail to do so? I honestly don't know what to do.</p>
<p>hey man I'm looking to apply to Northwestern too, only I'm a freshman. Its possible, but it won't be easy or really pleasant. To put yourself in the best possible advantage you should stay on for another year at your college. Get a 4.0, that is something you MUST do. You will have to give it everything you got, but if you endure then I'm sure you'll earn your spot at Northwestern.</p>
<p>Meaning no disrespect to mfd3q, you do NOT need to have a 4.0. You <em>do</em> need to do very well. 3.69 is very nice; if you can improve it, that's great.</p>
<p>It's the rest of your application that will determine your fate, as long as you have the strong GPA, strong courseload, strong recs, strong essays.... the whole deal.</p>
<p>I am posting this response here because this is a general reference thread AND IT CANNOT BE SAID TOO OFTEN... you do NOT need a 4.0 to have transfer success. Otherwise it's better not to post specific questions on this thread.</p>
<p>There is no clear answer about whether to try for the transfer for sophomore or jr status. If your hs record is strong, and you've got good prof recs, no reason not to try now. If your hs record is weak, that <em>might</em> be a reason to wait a year... as it will not factor in as much.</p>
<p>In terms of recommendations are they similar to high school? Are you suppose to ask your college professor and give them envelopes to mail out?</p>
<p>I'm not particularly close with my professors... How would I go about asking one of them for a letter of recommendation ?</p>
<p>I had this problem for getting a medical school recommendation. I knew the professor...but we weren't close. I recommend you do something similar to what I did...it should work.</p>
<p>First I asked if he'd would even be willing to write me a letter. When he said yes, I made an appointment to see him. I gave him everything he needed: transcripts, CV, copies of publication abstracts, list of ECs and even gave him the draft of my personal statement so he could understand why I wanted to be a physician. We talked about my reasons for wanting to go to med school and some academic issues I had and my thoughts on them. In the end...he was able to write me a beautiful letter of recommendation.</p>
<p>I'll go over a few things that worked for me with the essays.</p>
<p>The first is: try to be as specific as possible on the "why transfer" question. If you can, tailor each essay to the individual schools you are applying to. However, this is incredibly time-consuming (particularly so if you, like I did, are writing these essays during the school year and have to deal with actual coursework). So where I could I reused. My Harvard and Yale essays sounded very specific to each college, but in reality they were nearly identical with minor modifications (e.g. discussing briefly Yale's residential college system). </p>
<p>My second tip would be: don't be negative! When I first started writing my essays, I got caught up in the negativity I felt toward my old school. My "why transfer to Y" essay became "why I wanted to desperately get out of X". I think students who do this shoot themselves in the foot. At the same time, if there is a serious issue with your current institution, don't be afraid to mention it! The best way to reconcile this is to mention the problem, but instead of focusing on it, use it as a launch-pad to get into why school Y is great for you. For example, one of the biggest problems I had was with class size. Instead of harping on how crowded X was, I used it as a means to talk about school Y's intimate size + res. college system.</p>
<p>My third piece of advice is to make it personal. While this sort of falls under my first suggestion... I don't think specific automatically assumes personal. I could say college Y is great for a,b, and c without making any mention of how it is important to me. So what if Y has an intimate class size and an awesome college system? What does that do for you, your goals, and the growth you hope to achieve during your 4 year tenure? </p>
<p>This last one is pretty obvious, but... make sure it's well-written. You can have all the great reasons in the world but if it's not articulated well it doesn't mean jack. Get help with your writing if you don't think it's up to par. Have peers and parents look over your essays... get their input. It's often hard to objectively judge the quality of your own essay, and they can provide useful insight.</p>
<p>Sorry if this post is a bit scatter-brained, but I'm at work and should be... uh, working.</p>
<p>I know this may make me seem ignorant, but when I log onto National Common App, the list of school forms include the following: "College Official's Report", "Secondary School Report." Well, who do I exactly give the college official report to? My college advisor or the dean of my university? And do I give the secondary school report to my high school counselor??
:X
I'm rather just befuddled by all the paperwork.</p>
<p>weltschmerz - I would give the College Official's Report to either your Dean or your Advisor. Either one can tell you which of them would best handle it.</p>
<p>The Secondary School Report would go - yes - to your high school Guidance Counselor's office.</p>
<p>I'm kind of confused about the forms on the Common App site. One of the colleges I'm applying to is asking for a Secondary School Report, and on the Common App site, I don't see a form titled that - I see application, instructor evaluation, college official's form, and final report. The "Final Report" says that it's supposed to go to your secondary school counselor, but it looks like the form that got sent out after graduation to my current college. Is this the Secondary School Report that the college is asking for?</p>
<p>Oh, and also. The form for the college official said it should be filled out by your dean or your advisor. I was going to ask my advisor to write my instructor evaluation (she's the teacher of one of my classes this semester) but if she does the college official report, this means that I shouldn't have her do the instructor evaluation, right?</p>
<p>And one more thing that I forgot. On all the reports the common app automatically filled in the top parts the student fills out (name, school, ect.) and they have the current courses being taken filled out. There are only four lines for courses being taken, but at my school a full courseload is five courses. So on the form my fifth courses for fall and spring semesters don't show up. Is there any way to change this/get them on the form or am I just going to have to handwrite the fifth class/squeeze it in?</p>
<p>are top schools more likely to accept junior transfers than sophomore transfers, or vice versa? </p>
<p>more specifically, my high school record was solid, but unspectacular (3.6). if i apply to a school like georgetown as a sophomore transfer with a 3.8, would i have a chance, or should i wait until after sophomore year to transfer?</p>