<p>Hello,
I am very interested in attempting to transfer into Yale from my small southern liberal arts college, where I'm a presidential scholar double majoring in political science and writing.
My high school ACT was a 28
College GPA: 4.0
HS GPA: 3.84
I'm from michigan, but i had to attend college in tennessee because they offered me a better financial aid package (my family is on social security, and my father was killed several years ago in a tractor accident.) I'm a white, female that eventually wants to go to law school.
I originally also went to school down south because i was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease that requires I have constant labwork and take arounf 20 pills a day, and because i had family nearby that could take care of me if i got sick, which I did a lot (being on immunosupressant drugs + living in michigan with snow is not good for my health, and the south is warmer.)
I went to a very small high school in the middle of nowhere and graduated in the fifth in my class.
I want to attempt to transfer to either:
Yale,
Cornell,
Wellesley, because of their generous financial aid packages, and the joint programs with teacher licensure along with the academic majors, as well as the challenge of going to a larger school. (My high school was tiny, my current college is tiny, I'm ready for a challenge elsewhere.)
I have tons of extracurriculars.
My high school also only had two AP classes, one of which I took and got a 4.
Would I be laughed out of the admissions office if I applied to transfer to any of these schools? I've visited most of them, and I'm going again this summer to check them out. I just want to know what kind of chances I have. I don't really feel like I could apply to any of these schools because so many other people went to fancier schools and took more AP and IB courses, not to mention they had the option (and funds) to take ACT and SAT prep courses and I didn't.
Please help!
Thanks,</p>
<p>First of all, if you were denied admission from any school don't count on transferring to it after just one year in college as they will still consider your HS record. Next, the climates in Michigan and the NE schools you mention are similar. Are you a troll? Much of your data doesn't make sense with regard to your stated decision making, medical and scholastic. You can always pay your money and apply to any school.</p>
<p>Half of Michigan has snow levels of 70" or less per year, Ithaca gets an average of 67". Even New Haven gets about 32". Does snow not matter any more?</p>
<p>Your excellent grades should help. Yale would be a very, very long shot. Not only do they take very few transfers, but since Harvard has put at least a two year freeze on transfers, there is likely to be even more competition than there has been in the past. You will need superb recommendations from professors at your current college, but if you have them, I am sure your application won't be laughed at.</p>
<p>Why not try Vanderbilt? Peabody is a great school for teachers. It's in the south. There is a major medical center right there on campus. The need based aid is awesome. And NO SNOW.</p>