Please help! My current college acceptance rate is 40 percent, Earlham is at 60. Earlham has more programs I’m interested in and a change in environment . Would it be a mistake to transfer to a lower ranked school.
Please keep ranking out of your mind. You will get as good education in Earlham. And your job prospects won’t diminish because you went to a lower ranking school. If you work hard and got good grades you will succeed.
“My current college acceptance rate is 40 percent, Earlham is at 60.”
What does this mean?
Is College A ranked #40 and Earlham ranked #60 on some random scale determined by a magazine in year Y, and that someone who might hire you one day will know that and will care about it? Then you need to know that no decent employer gives a rip about that nonsense. So if you like Earlham better and you can afford Earlham, then go there.
Is it that College A admitted 40% of the applicants in year X, while Earlham admitted 60% of the applicants in that same year, so you think that this means that it is harder to get into College A and so someone who might hire you one day will know that and will care about it? Then you need to know that no decent employer gives a rip about that kind of thing. You also need to know that the pool of applicants at College A and at Earlham weren’t the same. It is entirely possible that many of the students who were admitted to College A ended up in the reject pile at Earlham. So again, if you like Earlham better and you can afford Earlham, then go there.
Thank you very much for the advice.