<p>HS GPA: 3.1 | <1500/2400 | <500 on all 3 subject tests </p>
<p>college gpa: 4.3 | 18 cred first year first sem, 26 cred second sem</p>
<p>HIGH SCHOOL (participated in all of these all four years):
president of newspaper
president of radio show
president of computer club
president of campus ministry, alter server at baptist church
student government 4 years
2547 library service hours (3941 including middle school, but that won't matter)</p>
<p>COLLEGE (lessened all of my ec's compared to hs to focus on schoolwork):
newspaper editor, 232 service hours environmental work</p>
<p>sailing and flute for 14 years</p>
<p>major: geog, 1 of 2 (the other one left to a community college)
intended dartmouth major: geography
male, thai from clinton, maryland</p>
<p>First, let me say that I have no idea how transfers are evaluated. (I also have no idea what kind of load those credits translate to in terms of courses taken, and don’t understand how a college GPA can be over 4, since I’ve never heard of colleges weighting grades.) If I were evaluating you, my first concern would be your standardized test scores. They don’t indicate an ability to do the work at a highly selective school. (WHat are the academic standards at the school you now attend, and how to they compare to D?) If there is some reason why you test so poorly, such as an LD, that might make a difference, but if that were the case I assume you would have sought accommodations. But I am not an adcom, and who knows how they view the matter.</p>
<p>Clearly, you have learned to buckle down to your studies instead of spending all of your time and energy on ECs. Good for you. Not that ECs aren’t great, but if you are going to be in school you have to keep things in proportion.</p>
<p>Why not stay where you are and continue to build up a strong record for graduate school?</p>
<p>my school’s geography program is extremely weak. i’m also the only one (the other one left to a community college at the beginning of this sem bc he realized earlier than did) and i’m not happy here. i liked freshman year but second sem made me realize it really focuses on their education and humanities program, so i’m not going to waste $$$ on a weak program</p>
<p>also the school i’m at is extremely easy, which is why i overloaded by 8 more credits, to challenge myself.</p>
<p>@ belief: i’m also taking the SAT next october.</p>
<p>Take Calc and French, do really well so that you can offset the AP scores. Why would you want to transfer? Williams is an excellent school and there is a lot of overlap between dartmouth and williams.</p>
<p>I normally don’t do chances (cos I hate them) but here is my $.02</p>
<p>Tower, I guess that you are looking to transfer as a junior. Part of the challenges I see is that you will still have to submit information including your gpa/SAT scores from high school. While you have done better in college than you did in high school, the college that you attend will probably also be taken into consideration.</p>
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<p>If you are attending what you call an extremely easy school, this is going to hurt your chances of being admitted. It is one thing to try to transfer to Dartmouth from another one of the Ivies or a peer school like Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, etc., but is is another thing to transfer from a tier 4 university with a 90% admission rate. </p>
<p>From what I have seen over the years, is that most of the students who were accepted as transfers are students who were strong candidates for admissions as freshmen.</p>
<p>This is hopefully where you will be able to get strong recommendations from professors that you can handle more rigerous work. While a letter from the dean is nice, unless the dean taught you and can talk about you as a student in the classroom, it is a waste of a recommendation.</p>
<p>thanks for your input! my school is a tier 1 university, according to USNews. I’ve been strong since freshman year and both the dean of geography & dean of environmental science taught me intro to geography my first year. i’m also taking the SAT this fall.</p>
<p>but i totally understand what you mean. my school, and it’s somehow tier 1 ranking, is not a great school. it has a low retention rate/high acceptance (but not 90) and i’m skeptical of it’s ranking, but it says tier 1 nontheless.</p>
<p>@Consolation i’m just not being challenged. the classroom environment is extremely dull and i’m the only one in some of my classes who participates. i thought it was just a freshman thing and it would die out as the year progressed but nope, it’s very colorless. i want to graduate from a better school because this place just sucks the life out of me. when i apply to graduate school, i just don’t think i’ll be prepared, especially since my school only offers 11 geography courses.</p>
<p>By all means try to transfer to D if that is what you want, but consider applying to a couple of other schools that are less of a reach, too. It’s always good to have choices.</p>
<p>Are you currently a sophomore looking to be admitted as a junior or are you a freshman looking to get admitted as a sophomore.
If you are looking to transfer in as a sophomore I would advise waiting a year(applying sophomore year to transfer in junior year) so that you can put some distance between you and high school.</p>