<p>Below are my current stats and hopefully future stats.</p>
<p>Transfering from: University of Virginia
H.S. GPA: 3.68-3.7ish (unweighted); 4.11+ weighted
Future College GPA: 3.8+ (hopefully)
Race: African-American
Gender: Male
Current SAT: 1860
Future SAT: 1950/2000+ (hopefully)
Future ACT: 29+ (you guessed it...hopefully)
Current SAT II's: 680 Bio-M, 660 USH, 640 Math I </p>
<p>What would be my chances at the following schools...</p>
<p>Dartmouth College (recently waitlisted)
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
University of Pennsylvania</p>
<p>All of these schools accept 10% of less of the applicants. With that in mind, you should probably enroll at UVA expecting to stay there for 4 years. If not, you are going to have a miserable year at school because you are waiting for something better. What exactly do those schools have the UVA doesn’t? </p>
<p>Your SAT scores are really low for those schools and keep in mind, college professors do not hand out A grades like in high school. If you want a 3.7+, you are going to have to work extremely hard. </p>
<p>I personally don’t understand why you are thinking of transferring when you have not even set foot on campus for your freshman year. You have no idea whether or not you will like or hate UVA. What are your reasons for wanting to transfer out of UVA other than Ivy League prestige? The admissions officers are going to see right through that on your application.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with you gsweitzer. I thought a lot about it, and I do not really understand the point of transferring. UVA is a great school and I am starting to feel great about getting in. I just wanted to see what people had to say about it. I will just keep my grades up and try for graduate school. Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Don’t just try for grad school, if you really want to go somewhere else and transfer for undergraduate. Just think about your reasons, justify your actions, and work hard for the objective you desire. From your list of schools, it looks like you desire something that requires a lot of hard work. But you can possibly get there, despite the odds. College is about finding your fit. Good luck finding yours.</p>
<p>My real reason is that I just want to see if I can get in. All my life people have doubted my abilities. I just want to see if I can compete for admission at that level. It is not really about prestige or rank, it is about proving my capabilities.</p>
<p>Well, acceptance does feel satisfactory most times. TRY. Best advice should alway be, try. But don’t put too much emphasis on accept/reject. You probably can compete at that level, an acceptance just doesn’t have to be the only justification.</p>
<p>Honestly, given all of the hard work and heartache that most of posters on this board endure in applying for a transfer, this is a less than admirable reason. Most apply after they have made good faith effort to make it work at their current college, not to just see if they can make the cut.</p>
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<p>If you want to prove your abilities, you will have more than enough opportunities to do so at UVA. Do you actually think that being admitted to a college means more than what you do once you get there? </p>
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<p>The gentleman doth protest too much me thinks. It has EVERYTHING to do with your gaining admission into an Ivy league school.</p>
<p>Not really, I am also considering applying to Georgetown, University of Chicago, and NYU. I just posted the Ivy League schools because those are the ones that I am most concerned about.</p>
<p>sweetpotato: People do it all the time, (ie, safety schools) </p>
<p>Do what your heart desires. If you really want to try to see if you can gain admission as a transfer student, I say do it. You won’t know unless you try, and if you don’t, it’ll linger in your mind for a long time(from personal experience). And if you don’t gain admission, be glad because you’re at a wonderful institution! :)</p>
<p>Wait…let me get this straight. You want to transfer to see if you GET IN? “Proving” your capabilities? So essentially you’ll be taking someone else’s spot who actually wanted to go there and you’ll be wasting the admissions committee (and your own) time. </p>
<p>Utterly ridiculous. I can’t stand people like this who do everything for the prestige. How about you concentrate on your **** at UVA for 4 years and then we’ll talk about grad school, okay?</p>
<p>@jtate, applying to a safety school is tOTALLY different than applying somewhere just for kicks to see if you can get in. safety schools are meant as a backup in case you don’t get in anywhere.</p>
<p>although it is different from a psychological standpoint, I think jtate means that in both cases, you apply with the intention of not attending (or not wanting to at least), so you theoretically do take up an admit from someone else</p>
<p>xfer, even tho a spot may be taken from someone who really wants to go to that school, that does not take away from the fact that an individual would still attend if they didn’t get in anywhere else. where would those people be who didn’t get in anywhere but their safety school? </p>
<p>to be frank, he’s doing this for sh**s and giggles. if he’s so insecure about proving himself then maybe he needs to start taking interest in other things that will boost his self-esteem.</p>
<p>@jtate: SATs aren’t enough, but to make it to those top schools, you have to get above a certain level… I don’t think the OP’s SAT score is there yet…</p>