<p>I am going to a college as a freshman this fall. If I maintain very high GPA (at the very least 3.8), which school is the best place for transferring into Stanford/Yale/Columbia/Penn (Wharton and CAS)/MIT? and why (please be very specific)? Also, I would like to know more about other requirement, including expected SAT/ACT scores, extra curricular activity. I have a couple of very strong extracurricular activities. I am looking for someone to proof read and improve my essay. If you would like to help improving my essay, please do not hesitate to PM me.</p>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Wash.U.</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Top Liberal Art College (Carleton, Grinnell, Amherst, Harvey Mudd, etc)</li>
<li>NYU (CAS)</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Notre Dame
10.Vanderbilt
11.UC Berkeley/UCLA
12.University of Virginia
13.California Community College</li>
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<p>I’m not sure about the Ivy League schools, but most private institute have their own articulation made for transfers. If you are a California resident, a large number of community colleges offer the Honors TAP program, which enhances your chances of being admitted to UCLA. </p>
<p>Depending on your interests of being in a public, private, small or big college. You should consider those factors and then narrow your choices down to schools you see yourself at. (Try visiting the schools beforehand.) Also, it matters what you declare your major as.</p>
<p>Wow, you must be really obsessed with rankings. And based on your posting history you actually like Dartmouth. How could a person who likes Dartmouth possibly want to transfer to MIT, unless they were obsessed with USNews?</p>
<p>Basically if you complete 15 units of honors courses with a transferring 3.25 GPA you are eligible to be TAP certified, which gives you priority admissions to UCLA.</p>
<p>Frankly, I have been admitted to all the colleges mentioned above. I did not apply to Stanford this year and realized Stanford is my best fit school (partially because of its #1 Biology Department and location).</p>
<p>Sorry, I misread your question ;). So many wonderful schools, but none the “right” one :(.</p>
<p>There’s no difference between the 1-12 schools for transferring, it all depends on what you do when you get there. And while there is some indication that S likes CC students, it’s questionable that yours is the type of CC profile that they’re looking for.</p>
<p>Did you apply to Y, C, P or MIT as a freshman?</p>
<p>Only Columbia and Wharton. I did not get into Columbia, and I am on Wharton Wait-list right now. What do I need to do for transferring into the schools I mentioned, particularly Stanford?</p>
<p>I look at all of the amazing schools you’ve gotten into and feel sad that something is keeping you from loving and embracing one. It would seem a shame for you to take a seat at one of those amazing schools with a plan to transfer. We’re not allowed to post youtube links here, but do go to youtube and search Dartmouth Jacko DYE.</p>
<p>That said, there’s probably a good chance Wharton will go to the waitlist this year. Stories like the one in the NYT today about seniors having difficulty getting the jobs Wharton kids typically get will probably chase many away who were just going to be ibankers. The economy’s downturn will chase immediate gratification seekers from all the business schools. As a Wharton alum and ibanker, that’s a good thing to me. And I should mention with kid’s at Amherst and Dartmouth, I realize if I’d known in my youth what I know now, I would have preferred both to Wharton.</p>
<p>So I’m not sure what you think the huge difference between many on your list will be at the undergrad level with Stanford, but if you want to break up your college years, friendships, relationship building with professors and spend your freshman year applying to other schools and then lose all the thing transfers lose, what can we say?</p>
<p>Quite frankly, I’m astounded you are wanting to go to one of those 12 colleges with the express purpose of just transferring to another. </p>
<p>All these schools are great. It’s completely absurd and irrational to want to transfer before having spent a single day as a college student.</p>
<p>I’m sure at some point you’ll realize that a very large component of college is your own embracing of the experience. At some point you’re going to realize that college isn’t about going to whatever school happens to top the US News list; it’s about your own efforts to expand your knowledge and expertise and broaden your horizons and sharpen your understanding of the world. If you want to achieve great things, it’s better to realize this sooner than later. Let’s just hope you realize it before you’ve already wasted your first year at college being dissatisfied with absolutely stellar opportunities lest you find yourself trailing behind those who seized the opportunities to their fullest.</p>
<p>There are of course valid reasons for wanting to transfer. Why don’t you wait until you’re actually in college and see if you’ve got one?</p>
<p>Can you please give us the title of the article that you found in the NYT on 4/18? Or the keywords will be fine, too. I just wonder as one of transfer applicants to Wharton.</p>