<p>There is now way you could get into any of these schools, except possibly Skidmore and Occidental, and your reasons for transferring are exceptionally poor. On the first count, these schools are all fairly selective, albeit with some significant variance. Columbia is by far the most selective of these, and you flat out have no chance there. The standards for admittance to the Ivy League are extremely high, and unless you have essentially straight A’s and A-'s, your chances are effectively zero. Bowdoin, Emory, Hamilton, and Vassar are also very selective, and in general your chances at them approach zero once your GPA is below roughly 3.7. Liberal arts colleges in general take very, very few transfers, and the admission rates are often quite low. Emory might be a little more merciful than the other three, but it’s still pretty selective. Regardless, it doesn’t matter for you, because in your case your college GPA is way too low; none of these schools would give your application a second thought. You might have a very small shot at Skidmore or Occidental, but even those would probably be reaches with your grades.</p>
<p>Beyond that, I have to say that your reason for wanting to transfer is one of the worst I’ve ever heard. Transferring is best for people who either feel like they do not fit in on a deep level with the environment of the school they’re at, or for people who cannot pursue a certain academic interest. It can also work for people who had serious issues in high school, but have since turned themselves around through great effort and now want access to opportunities that were previously barred to them by their prior performance.</p>
<p>From your post however, it sounds as though you’re treating transfer admissions as a game, as if this is just some amusing lark that you thought might be interesting. You’re happy at your school, there’s no obvious deficiency in your school’s academic program that would cause you to seek alternative opportunities, and you are patently not someone who has reformed and wants to leave their past behind. Transfer admissions can really change someone’s life for the better. Transferring to Brown for instance made me truly happy for the first time in years because it allowed me to move beyond some difficult issues I’d had in my adolescence, and also gave me new intellectual opportunities. Having talked to several other transfers and read some of the stories here, I can say that there are a lot of other people who would tell you that their transfer was a watershed moment in their life. </p>
<pre><code>Please understand that transfer admissions in many cases, especially with the colleges on your list, are a zero sum situation. Your acceptance often means the rejection of several other people. What justifies this is the fact that you were probably more qualified and, most importantly, that you had a similarly significant reason for transferring. In your case however, you don’t have an important reason. Seriously consider for instance what would happen if you got into one of the schools on your list. Your acceptance would likely mean that someone who really needed this, someone for whom this could have changed their life for the better, gets rejected. Can you tell the student who will never be able to pursue their academic interests because you took their slots that at least you had a good time? Can you tell person who now has to spend another year in misery at a school they hate that it was a good lark? Can you tell the community college graduate who worked night and day to turn themselves around, and needed that slot to make a better future, that at least their dreams were crushed so that your petty curiosity could be sated?
The only consolation I have in speculating on this is that you’re grades are so mediocre that you probably won’t be that person. There is still a slight chance that you could be, and it is that chance that disturbs me. I know this sounds harsh, but I think it would be a travesty if you ended up crushing someone’s dream for no good reason. If you actually develop a serious reason, i.e. you become genuinely unhappy with Sarah Lawrence; or you find something that fascinates you but that you can’t pursue at Sarah Lawrence; or if you work ceaselessly to turn yourself around next year and want to have a better shot at pursuing your dreams and proving yourself; then by all means apply to transfer. Until then though, please, for the sake of the people for whom this can really make a difference, don’t apply.
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70/30 means that if you aren’t completely insane you shouldn’t have too much difficulty finding a lady friend. SLC is usually pretty generous with financial aid, so hopefully they gave you a good offer.</p>