Hi guys. I’m currently a highschool senior and will be attending Brandeis this fall. I got deferred from Brown in ED and then got rejected -_- I came to US in 9th grade and Brown has been my dream school since then. (Brandeis is my second choice)
I want to try again at getting into Brown after completing 1 year at Brandeis. But my concern is my highschool transcript and SAT score. I had some struggles with academics in 9th and 10th grade because my English was not fluent and I had trouble adjusting to new environment. My highschool gpa is about 3.3~3.4 and SAT is 2080. But Im getting better grades now and I’m confident that I can get a lot better grades when I go to college.
- How competitive is Brown transfer admission?
- What should I do during my first year at Brandeis?(to build better profile? I’m thinking about getting EMT license and join Brandeis Emergency Medical Corps. I want to pursure a career in medicine and I was always interested in something like this. Will this look good on transfer admission?)
- Are my highschool gpa and SAT going to affect a lot in transfer admission? What if I study hard and get over like 3.8 at Brandeis?
- What classes should I take at Brandeis?(Im going to major in Biology at Brandeis and going to apply for Biology at Brown)
Please dont judge me for thinking about transfer too early…
one more question.
5. What do you need for Brown transfer admission? Other than highschool transcript, SAT, and college transcript?
Have you thought about other options, such as taking a gap year and re-applying to Brown? Transfer admission to Brown is much more competitive than undergrad admission, and the number of students they take can fluctuate quite a bit depending on how much space they have.
My concern is that you’ll spend your first year at Brandeis doing nothing but wishing you were at Brown, and you’ll miss out on a lot of opportunities by thinking that way. What happens if you don’t get into Brown via transfer?
Sorry to put it so bluntly but: move on and enjoy Brandeis.
@bruno14 Thanks for the advice! What should I do during that gap year?
@iwannabe_Brown can you please tell me why?
Because it’s not worth it to sacrifice your freshman year at Brandeis to try and get into brown through a more difficult route than the one that you just tried. Brandeis is an excellent school and especially if you’re planning on pursuing medicine a transfer will hurt your ability to rise to leadership positions in student orgs and it means one less year of data for brown to use in your committee letter.
If you really give Brandeis the chance it deserves and you’re still so unhappy there that it is affecting your physical/emotional health, then a transfer is worth it.
@iwannabe_Brown Thanks for the advice. I know Brandeis is a great school but its just that Brown has been my dream school since I came to America…
My sister went to Brandeis, I went to Brown. The are very different schools. Very. different. Schools.
Do: Enjoy Brandeis, it’s a great education. If you don’t like it, apply to transfer. But don’t make it a self-fulfilling prophecy
Don’t: Fret over what you need to do to transfer right now. You can’t do anything about it right now. I’m not judging you, I’m just offering you some “been there done that” advice 
The best things to do for a strong transfer application is to really excel at Brandeis academically, and write excellent essays. Everything else is basically in the past (obviously still showcase it, but don’t focus on “building,” so to speak). College doesn’t really have EC the way high school does.