<p>I am currently an honors freshmen at a 3rd tier University. I really need to get out of this place. I dont know if its because its a 3rd tier school or if its just the school itself, but i feel like nobody studies or is worried about their future here! maybe its just the freshies..
ANYWAYS, I would like to transfer out to a "better" school perferably located in the (north)east. </p>
<p>My fall semester gpa was a 3.2 (chem, english, history, calc). Hopefully I can get this up to a 3.5 or so.
High school: SAT math-650, verbal-600, writing-680
GPA 3.4 (unweighted); Class rank 95% (weighs in honors/APs)
Took 7 AP but got mostly B's in them. </p>
<p>I've been looking at BU, NORTHEASTERN, EMORY, LEHIGH, F&M
What are my chances at these schools, AND can anyone recommend other schools that are good at the sciences?
I'm trying to decide between pharmacy or dental studies. I really want to transfer into northeastern's 6year pharmacy program, but they accept minial numbers of transfers based on space in the program. what should i do? because i hear northeastern isint great for science studies unless its for pharmacy.
Also, does anyone have any tips for transferring? (like what kind of ECs should i be doing)</p>
<p>i have a lot of questions hahah but please help thanks!</p>
<p>Emory is pretty unlikely. Northeastern - ok. Lehigh dunno, F&M dunno. BU - if you get up to around 3.5, you've got a shot. Your test scores are pretty good.</p>
<p>I dunno how much faith I'd put into that percentage though. It's probably accurate, but I've seen a lot of people transfer into BU with only decent GPA/test scores; I would have thought they'd be rejected, but I think the achievement in the pool of applicants to BU is somewhat lacking.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a school that offers pharmacy in the north east... Rutgers - New BRunswick has one of the best programs. Rutgers is also highly ranked in all the journals, if you wanted to know</p>
<p>^For some reason, I want to say EMSoP has a pretty high retention rate. The OP might have to work on her GPA for another year before transferring there.</p>
<p>I think USNews puts the top 120 or so schools on it's "top colleges" page. After that there are separate tier 3 and 4 pages. So, if one is referring to USNews (and most usually are), tier 1 should refer to the top 60 schools.</p>
<p>js23--how would i know if you dont tell me what school you attend? haha</p>
<p>anyways..Does rutger's have a 6year pharm D program? If so, how easy/hard is it to transfer into it? because i feel like most of these pharm programs are not that hard to get into as freshmen, but get extremely difficult for transfer..esp northeastern, due to the amount of spaces available. </p>
<p>Also, after researching emory's transfer policies, rates, etc etc i got the feel that trasferring into emory is easier than getting in as a freshmen. It also mentioned that they have rolling admissions or notifications..</p>
<p>My first choice is probably BU..but i feel like im deciding on this mainly because of its location and size. Is their science program good????? I got in last year but decided not to attend..could this affect my acceptance as a trasnfer applicant in any way?</p>
<p>RU does have a 6 year pharm program. I think it's pretty hard to transfer into, because IIRC, freshman admission is more difficult than other schools at Rutgers, and it has a high rate of retention. But the pharmacy school at RU (Ernest Mario) does have a program with Montclair State University, which is easier to get into than Rutgers. I don't know the details of transferring into that one, but it's something to consider.</p>