Transfer Options 4.0 GPA

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm a second semester freshman at UH. It's a pretty good school for business and pharmacy and hotel management and the like, but I'm unsatisfied with the humanities course offerings and opportunities. Plus, it's a huge commuter school, and I'm not enjoying that environment. I'm looking for places with strong backgrounds in English and liberal arts, bonus if there's an available Statistics major. </p>

<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: mixed Latino/Asian/White
Current school: University of Houston Honors College
Current standing: Second semester freshman
GPA: 4.0, Dean's list</p>

<p>High school: top 10%
SAT I: 800CR 700M 800W
SAT II: 800 US History 780 Literature
National Merit Scholar</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
Columnist at the college newspaper
Co-president of a city nonprofit organization
Summer intern at City Attorney's office
English tutor
Regular volunteer at NPR/PBS
Essays and articles appeared in a couple different publications</p>

<p>High school stuff:
Staff writer at a movie/music review website
Studio art (eight years of studio art practice+ AP 2D and AP drawing, some regional and state awards)
Secretary of Japanese National Honor Society, set up exchange partnership
Studied abroad on the NSLI-Y program in South Korea
Couple hundred volunteer hours
Dance instructor, and member of a performance group</p>

<p>I was wondering what kind of schools would be realistic, and what kind of school would be worth reaching for? I'm already applying to UT Austin and Tulane, but I'd like some more options.</p>

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<p>It depends on your financial situation, what you want to study and which courses you took in first semester.</p>

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<p>I’ll need some financial aid. I took a lot of core courses this year (Calc, Stats, etc).</p>

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<p>Schools with some of the most generous FA are the top schools, which you’re qualified for. I’d say don’t be afraid to aim a little higher if you’d like. Last year as a HS senior, I got into Tulane and got a decent scholarship, but it was still way too much. I don’t know if they give transfer scholarships, but their FA wasn’t enough, coming from a family that doesn’t make 6 digits. </p>

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<p>I believe Tulane has merit scholarships up to $20,000 for transfer students, and then need based FA on top of that. It is a shame the OP didn’t try Tulane from the start. With those stats and the rest of her background, she probably would have gotten a nice package. Unfortunately once you are past the incoming freshman stage, there is no going back to get packages that generous, at least as far as merit money.</p>

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<p>Look into Kenyon (first thing I think of for English/Liberal arts) but I don’t know if they accept many transfers. Look into the women’s colleges such as Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Scripps. USC admits many transfers but those tend to come from california CC’s. Investigate all the top 30 LACs and universities.</p>

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<p>4.0 - great SAT - URM - you should be applying to the ivies/Vandy/Northwestern/Georgetown type schools…you didn’t say if you have a geographic preference but with your stats everything is on the table…don’t make the mistake of aiming too low. If you’d like to stay in Houston absolutely apply to Rice</p>

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<p>I would recommend Berkeley, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, JHU & Michigan. I am not sure Harvard accepts transfers, but you could apply there too. These have good statistics and English Departments.</p>

<p>The top 10 graduate schools for statistics, according to USNWR are </p>

<ol>
<li>Stanford, 2. Berkeley, 3. JHU, 4. Harvard, 5. Chicago, 6. U of Washington, 7. CMU, 8. Duke, 9. NC State U, 9. Texas A&M University, 9. Michigan, 9. U Penn, 9. U of Wisconsin Madison, 10. Michigan, 10. University of Minnesota.</li>
</ol>

<p>The top 15 for English:</p>

<ol>
<li>Berkeley 2. Harvard 3. Stanford, 4. Columbia, 4 Princeton, 4 Yale, 8 Cornell, 8 Chicago, 10 Duke, 10 UCLA, 10 U of Virginia, 13. JHU, 13. Michigan, 15. Brown, 15 UNC Chapel Hill. </li>
</ol>

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<p>If the OP is from TX and needs FA, UCB and UMichigan are not good choices. Also, UCs only take jr transfers and the OP is currently a fr.</p>

<p>H accepts transfers.</p>

<p>Graduate school rankings and UG can be very different.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the answers, everyone! I’m ineligible to transfer to Berkeley, as you need 60credits/junior standing, and large out of states aren’t financially viable, but I’ve added a few liberal arts colleges and a couple of reach schools to the list.</p>