Transfer Chances! (No one is answering me on the transfer thread) Please help out!:)

Applying to College
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<p>Hey everyone. I am at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. Although I love the college and have made some great friends, I would like to transfer to a little bit of a bigger school with a bigger language department. I am from New Jersey and came from a competitive high school. I want to study Spanish, Classics, International Relations, etc. Here is the stat break down:</p>

<p>HS GPA 3.7 (Honors, AP, and Accelerated)</p>

<p>Combined SAT 1240, Highest Individual Sitting 1160
MATH 610 VERBAL 630</p>

<p>Rank: Top 25% (At a very competitive blue ribbon school, graduating class close to 600 kids)</p>

<p>ECS: Ice hockey, DECA (marketing), Spanish Club, Business Academy (internships)</p>

<p>College GPA 1st Semester: 3.8</p>

<p>Classes Taken:
19th Century American Authors (200 Level Class)</p>

<p>Religion in a Global Context (Intro Course)</p>

<p>Journeys (Freshman Seminar Class somewhat like a humanities course, we read african literature, political documents, religious works, philosophy)</p>

<p>Fudamentals of Spanish II (Placed out of Spanish I)</p>

<p>Second Semester:</p>

<p>Etymology/Phil (Classics Course Level 250)</p>

<p>Spanish Comp. and Conversation (200 Level)</p>

<p>Calculus I</p>

<p>Contemporary Europe History</p>

<p>ECS:
CRL Representive (council for residence life, representative of my dorm)</p>

<p>CRL Treasurer</p>

<p>Campus Kitty Officer (Officer of my dorm in largest community service/charity organization on campus, I had to apply for this position)</p>

<p>Amnesty International (human rights group)</p>

<p>HIV Education Coalittion (AIDS awareness)</p>

<p>I am pretty sure each class counts as 3 credits so that would give me 24 transfer credits? I am not sure but I know I have enough credits to transfer to most schools. My Recs would come from my Spanish prof. who I had the 1st semester and will have the 2nd semester. Also a possible rec. from my English prof. I still have my GC rec from HS which was impressive.</p>

<p>Looking at schools such as:
Bucknell
Kenyon
Emory?</p>

<p>I am not sure if I want a huge school like a state school but I would consider it if I got into an honors program. I am a party girl, and I like to have a good time on the weekends. I don't need a city nearby but it wouldnt hurt. The school should be solid academically with a good grad school acceptance rate, but still parties hard. I like larger LACs like Bucknell, Emory, etc. Not sure if Emory would be good (I heard it is very Jewish and I am not sure if I would fit in). Not really sure about Boston schools but its an option. Any suggestions of schools with decent transfer rates, good with fin. aid, housing, etc. Sport teams would be cool too but not necessary.</p>

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<p>Valuable, You might take a look at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Although it's only slightly larger than Hendrix with just over 1300 students currently, they have a wonderful language department there, offering everything from Chinese and Russian to Sanskrit and Hungarian. There are even more options offered through their nationally-known summer language program. I think you would find them very open to a transfer application, and you'd also find Beloit to have a very similar "feel" to Hendrix. <a href="http://www.beloit.edu/%7Eacademic/fields/majors/modern_languages_literature_overview.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.beloit.edu/~academic/fields/majors/modern_languages_literature_overview.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>And Beloit is a very generous school to boot.</p>

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<p>thanks so much! any other suggestions? would emory be a fit for me?</p>

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<p><em>cough</em> Emory "very Jewish" <em>cough</em> how so? sounds prejudiced here.</p>

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<p>"<em>cough</em> Emory "very Jewish" <em>cough</em> how so? sounds prejudiced here"</p>

<p>I am definitely not prejudice towards Jewish people. I did go to a high school that had a large Jewish population. I had a little trouble at first. Not sure if it compares to Emory at all on a larger scale. I was just wondering since I heard there was a larger percentage there. Correct me if I am wrong?</p>