Hey guys, thought I would just make a general transfer thread. Hopefully, people can learn from my experiences. Feel free to post your own transfer stats/results. Just trying to have a little fun and see how it turned out for other transfers. I hope this serves as a reminder that one can be VERY happy with where they transfer to, even if they are not competitive enough to transfer to schools like HYPSM.
Objective
High School Info: Top NJ Public
College Last Attended: PA LAC
College GPA: 3.575 Cumulative (3.65 1st Semester, 3.5 2nd). ~30 hrs completed.
High School GPA: 3.14 UW, 4.93 W (out of 7).
High School Rank: ~304/514, or top 58% (not on transcript).
SAT I: 630 M, 640 CR, 660 W.
ACT: N/A
SAT II: N/A
APs: Psychology (5)
Subjective
ECs: Crew for 4 years in high school, ~40-50 hours of volunteer work since 9th grade, wrote for my school newspaper senior year, part of my college EMS Unit, did a poster presentation at Psychology Day 1st semester of college (december 2015).
Recommendation: From a very nice psychology professor, seemed to really like me. Maybe ~8/10.
Application Info
Applied for aid: No
Major: Psychology/ Pre-Law is what I listed.
Accepted: Kalamazoo College w 22k/yr, Lawrence University w 17k/yr, Denison University w 20k/yr, Union College w 15k/yr, St. Olaf College w 7.5k/yr, Case Western Reserve University.
Wait-listed: none
Rejected: Kenyon College.
Attending: Case Western Reserve University.
I’m so grateful for being accepted to CWRU; I was rejected from F&M and Lehigh as a freshman, so to say this was a shock would be an understatement. Honestly, I would say admissions are truly a crapshoot; I am not sure how I got accepted to CWRU after I was denied from Kenyon. I guess my instructor evaluation was very good. If my CGPA went up 2nd semester, I would have looked at applying to USC, UVA, UNC, UMich, Columbia, Brown, UChicago, Tufts, Vanderbilt, Colgate, Claremont McKenna and other schools for transfer admission. Still, I am very happy to be attending CWRU in the fall.
Congrats! I’m also a transfer who will be attending Case in the fall. What are you planning on doing regarding the housing situation? Apparently transfer students can live off campus or on.
@HopefulMe I am living on campus, you?
I have heard that on-campus is the more popular option, so I probably will as well.