<p>I am looking for any advice on what schools i should look into transferring to. Right now, I am a freshmen at University Wisconsin-Madison but for the most part I am focused on transferring to NYU. I know for a fact that I do not want to be here next fall but I am willing to stick out a year and get good grades in order to transfer. Other schools that I am thinking about right now are Wesleyan and Hamilton. Does anyone have any suggestions for a nice medium to small sized school in the tri-state area?</p>
<p>And on a side note, would it be stupid to only stay one semester here and take classes at a community college near home or should I stay at Wisconsin for the year?</p>
<p>My grades in high school were the following:</p>
<p>talk here after you are at least half way through your first semester.
Until then, the best advice I can give is:</p>
<p>1.) Work your butt off to get straight A's. Set your goal high. I hate it when I see people who sets their goal GPA as low as 3.0, not 4.0. </p>
<p>2.) Try to know your school. Don't make up your mind so fast. Join student clubs and organization, meet and make new friends, offer your favorite professor an assistance in his/her research (in another word, keep a close relationship with your professors; it will help you a lot when you need letters of recommendation), and participate in some leadership program to bring changes to your campus. You might end up loving your school and not have to worry about transferring at all.</p>
<p>3.) Build up some real life experience. Job, internship, volunteer, anything's good. These can do wonders to your application when you apply as a transfer student.</p>
<p>Advice aside, I am pretty sure if you attain a 3.5 taking good courses at Wisconsin you will get into NYU without much of a problem. Stern/Tisch would be a different story, but after seeing the transfer results thread for NYU for this past year, I would say you'd be in for sure.</p>
<p>Weselyan will be tough because you'll only be a sophmore-level transfer, adding more weight to your hs stats when you apply. Don't know much about Hamilton.</p>
<p>For NYU Stern be sure to have taken Microecon, Cal I, Expository Writing, Financial Acct, and Managerial Acct or they probably won't review your app. Other than that, as long as you're taking classes that are general to the liberal arts education (english, history, sciences) then they will usually transfer and the grades you receive will be taken more seriously.</p>
<p>yeah it does sound like the OP was lucky to get into Wisconsin, but if you think you can move on up to where you wanna be, give it a shot! He'll/she'll always have the current school to fall back on</p>
<p>My advice is to shoot for a 4.0.....and stay at UW for the year.</p>
<p>If you like Hamilton, apply there. Hamilton is very selective (although Wes is even more so) but far less liberal than UW-Madison or Wesleyan. The latter college (Wesleyan) will focus on your first year performance as well as your HS grades and your test scores. At Hamilton, you can choose not to submit test scores, but they do consider HS performance as well.</p>
<p>While at UW, you might also want to take ILS classes or Honors classes since they somewhat mimic the experience you'll get at the smaller liberal arts colleges. ILS classes have lots of reading assignments (although they can have a number of students), while honors classes are very small and usually seminar style (lots of participation & critical reading).</p>
<p>If you want a liberal arts experience, I'd suggest looking at some other colleges, besides just Wes and Hamilton, like: Skidmore, Trinity, Denison, Occidental, Reed, DePauw, Pitzer, Earlham, Lawrence, Beloit...</p>