<p>Topic more or less says it. I'm just about done with my freshman year at NYU Stern and I can say this is definitely not the place for me. While I am performing well academically, Stern, or NYU in general, is just not my type of environment.</p>
<p>I am considering transferring to other schools, right now these are:
Columbia
Dartmouth
Northwestern
UPenn
Duke
Georgetown (McDonough)
Cornell (AEM)
UMichigan (Ross)</p>
<p>I am not very familiar with the transfer process, but I do know that the elite schools like the ones I listed above accept very few transfers. Are there any that I should eliminate immediately given the rarity of transfer students they accept? How many schools should I apply to for transfer?</p>
<p>Stats:
3.8 College GPA
3.78 Unweighted HS GPA
2170 SAT (1420 M + CR)</p>
<p>There are 3 sources for transfer rates: the Common Data Set for the school (not all publish, eg. Columbia); the College Board’s College Search function; the school’s website.
Many do not give only the overall transfer rate and do not separate out the various schools within the university.</p>
<p>Thank you. I’ll do my research.</p>
<p>I am very new to the transfer process and I only really seriously started considering it this past month. As someone who’s just about ready to head off to Freshman summer, am I too late to apply for Fall transfer? Is Spring Transfer still a feasible option?</p>
<p>You’ll have to check the deadlines, but I’m pretty sure that they were in late Feb/early March for all of those schools; don’t know if UM is rolling for transfers. </p>
<p>Not all schools take spring transfers, you’ll have to check the college websites. If they do, I think deadlines are in the fall for spring transfers.</p>
<p>It seems like the websites are the go-to places. I’ll look through their Q&A pages.</p>
<p>Also, is applying to 8 schools for transfer too many?</p>
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<p>Absolutely. Sometimes the information for transfers is not very complete, so you may need to make some phone calls to schools.</p>
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<p>It’s a little high, but it kind of depends on your situation, like how willing are you to stay at NYU if you don’t get admitted. At this point it doesn’t look like you have any match or safety schools on your list. That’s fine if you’re OK with NYU being your safety, but if you really want to leave, you likely need to replace a few of those schools with some that are more transfer friendly.</p>
<p>Why do you want to transfer from stern?</p>
<p>I doubt that you’ll like columbia if you didn’t like stern.</p>
<p>@entomom
My academic performance and Stern’s reputation/OCR/alumni network is sufficient enough to keep me here over less “prestigious” schools (I’m still looking to go into finance so target/prestige is definitely a factor). </p>
<p>Do transfer students have to go through interview processes?</p>
<p>@BrettMess
The usual stereotypes: NYU’s lack of a campus (a lot of the time I don’t even feel like I’m going to college save for when I’m in class), poor school spirit, cutthroat competition to the point of absurdity, and everyone seems to want to do the same thing (banking). </p>
<p>@WalterA
If you’re referring to my disdain towards NYU’s environment, it doesn’t have to do with the city of New York, which I’m perfectly ok with.</p>
<p>What do you mean by the cutthroat competition to the point of absurdity? I am going there in the fall which is why i am asking</p>
<p>There are far fewer schools that interview transfer than fr applicants, but there are some. I know that Dartmouth did not when D1 applied, but that was about 4 yrs ago.</p>
<p>I understand your POV concerning Stern’s rep, etc., so it make sense that you only apply to colleges that you want to attend more than NYU.</p>