<p>I'm a junior. I spent freshman and sophomore years at a large state university and then transferred for my junior year to a large ivy league school. I am now thinking of transferring to Dartmouth because my mother is ill and I would like to be closer to home. I live 7 hours away from home and it is hard for me to see her now. I also like that Dartmouth is a smaller college environment.</p>
<p>I know I would not be able to graduate on time (have to spend at least 2 years at Dartmouth if I got in) but I am willing to do this. Do you think that adcoms would be understanding of someone in this position?</p>
<p>um, i think if you have more than 60 semester credit hours you are in a very unfavorable position in terms of likelihood of acceptance, at any school</p>
<p>I don't think you're qualified to transfer to Dartmouth. Unless you drop out of school right now, take a year off, and transfer for next fall. Since your mother is ill, taking a year off to take care of her is a legitimate reason to drop out, it might also make a very good impression to the Darthmouth admission office.</p>
<p>P.S.
Why didn't you just say Cornell instead of "large ivy leage school"? It saves time typing so many letters on the same thing</p>
<p>You take those three and combine them together and you'll get Cornell (slightly larger than Cornell). I don't think Harvard is "large" when compare to Cornell.</p>
<p>I am sorry, Reddune, but I seem to have missed the claim entailing that the OP attended the largest Ivy-League school. Perhaps you can point it out to me...</p>
<p>Granted that Harvard is the third largest Ivy, but it's hardly qualifies as a "large" school. If we're to categorize the size of the Ivy this is how most people would do it:</p>
<p>Small: Dartmouth, Columbia, and Princeton
Medium: Yale, Brown, and Harvard
Large: Upenn, and Cornell</p>
<p>To me the definition of large is when two schools must combine to equal your size. Upenn and Cornell need three schools. Harvard is a upper-medium, but hardly large.</p>
<p>P.S.
apologize to Honeypot to hijack your thread like this. I do hope you get into Dartmouth and your mom will feel better. If you do manage to transfer, please come back and tell us. I would like to know if you could transfer to Dartmouth after your junior year, something that seems so unlikely.</p>
<p>columbia has 5530 undergrads (+nearly 2500 more if you include Barnard, which uses the same facilities, and more still if you include general studies)</p>
<p>nspeds what is your problem? Are you having a bad week, and are searching for some attention? I'm sure the college life section of CC is more appropriate. You haven't give one helpful advice to the OP. If you want to argue over the semantic of the word "large" you could just send me a private message. </p>