<p>How difficult is it for a junior transfer to fit in at Brown? Since it is a year where many people are scattered off campus and such, would I feel isolated?</p>
<p>Not a student, and have only visited for a few weeks here and there but....my two cents. Brown is a mostly residential college. Even those who go off campus are virtually on campus. One house my daughter was in was around the corner from Pembroke dorms, just off Thayer street. The other was closer to errrr....I can't remember, but it was toward Wickendon Street. And she went back on the meal plan anyway, cause the Ratty is very social.</p>
<p>But mostly, your Junior year you will be working in your major and that is going to give you a subset of people you will interact with frequently.</p>
<p>"working in your major and that is going to give you a subset of people you will interact with frequently. "</p>
<p>I was junior transfer and that really wasn't the case at all. Other transfers hung out with other transfers. I kind of did my own thing and met new people. People aren't that scattered. Your biggest issue would be with not having been a freshman. Upperclassmen, I have noticed, are less interested in accepting new people into their pre-established cliques. But if you talk to people then you shouldn't have a problem.</p>
<p>I can just report what I know from my own kids experience. She is not a transfer, so can't speak to that experience, but she does not have a clique.</p>
<p>ooh, meant to say 'she does no have a clique, but she does have a boyfriend, so maybe same difference.'</p>
<p>Another transfer question! Anyone know what the average GPA/class rank of transfers is? I know your college grades are one of the most important parts but I dont know what the standards are. Is a 3.75 from a top LAC competitive?</p>
<p>Brown doesn't release this information so it's pretty hard to get a reasonable gauge. Having said that, the acceptance rate this past year was 8.5% (and the housing crunch next year won't help transfers). The average GPA is sort of irrelevant; your class rank is what really matters (a 3.6 may mean you're valedictorian at one place and middle of the class at another).</p>
<p>Transferring to Brown (and a lot of other top schools) is harder than getting in as a freshman. The numbers support this, you need legitimate and compelling transfer reasons, amazing recs, the list goes on. 92% of freshmen were in the top 10% of their high school class. Because transferring is more competitive than freshman admission, you will definitely need to be in the top 10% at your college. Obviously, there are some cases where this doesn't hold (recruited athlete with legacy and is in the top 20% of his college class), but for the most part it's a reasonsable measure.</p>
<p>The same holds for SATs. Make sure they're at least as competitive as the average freshman's SATs</p>
<p>Also, quality of school definitely matters. A top LAC wil be viewed much more favorably than a CC.</p>
<p>Confused about the GPA statement. I know kids from my HS who got into Brown had GPAs around the top 10%, but wouldnt it be less strict for college, if youre coming from a good college already? Say for arguments sake that my GPA and class rank are the same as they were in HS. My college is MUCH more competitive; a small minority of people from my HS would be able to get into my college (Barnard, and I take half my classes at Columbia). So, wouldn't that GPA/class rank be more impressive now, by virtue of the fact that Im at a competitive college?</p>