I’m currently a student who finished freshman year at Oberlin College. I wished I had a better experience, but I find the political atmosphere very extreme in Oberlin College. As a moderate conservative, I wasn’t too fond of Oberlin’s protest and social justice culture. Now, I am very fine with discussing different perspectives, but Oberlin students tend to be hostile towards ideas that contradict or challenges them politically. I had many incidences where I felt that people have judged me based on politics than character.
Now, I’ve finished my freshman year at Oberlin College with about 3.7 GPA and am an Economics with math major. I hope I can raise my chance of transfer by taking overload credits in both of my sophomore semesters. I have already taken three 200 level courses and am taking even 300 courses during my sophomore year to challenge myself. However, my high school stats isn’t too good: 3.55 UW and 29 ACT.
I am planning to apply to Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Vassar, Hamilton, Emory, Northwester, Claremont Mckenna, U. of Rochester, Case Western, Tufts, Colgate, and U of I.
Even though some of those colleges are liberal, I very wish desire to transfer to much more “open-minded” college that still appreciates different points of view. Claremont Mckenna has attracted me on the well-balanced political diversity of the student body. Same goes with Vanderbilt. In addition, even the liberal colleges like Vassar and Tufts, I still view them as much more balanced and tolerant towards different ideas.
Nonetheless, I hope to make a good case for why I wish to transfer to my application.
Any suggestions for colleges I should add? I know that all the colleges I listed are reaches, so any further suggestions to improve my chances would be very appreciative.