Hello! I’m a California community college student.
I’m also an international student(Asian F1 Holder) and my major is mathematics
I know that Transferring to top schools such as Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, Caltech is really hard, but I want to go these schools.
When I was in middle school, I attended GYP in my country and participated in KMO(got one bronze medal, one silver medal). Later on, I went to the science high school in my country, but I dropped out because I had a hard time making friends, and I got really bad grades(C, D). Then, I’d lost my interest in studying. I transferred another high school, I got bad grades in the school. In addition, my mother got depression and paranoia after parents were divorced. I didn’t go to college after high school and took care of my mother. I went to the army(it is a duty) and my mother and my grandmother lived together during when I was in the army. During the army, I read a book called “A Mathematician’s Apology” and that book changed my life. Thus, I talked to my grandmother and she sent me to America for studying mathematics(I didn’t go good college due to the bad GPA)
What school I do in community college?
I’ve got 4.0 GPA every quarter since the first quarter and I can speak 4 languages.
Moreover, I’m looking for another extracurricular activity in summer.
I talked my counselor but she didn’t know much about going to private school.
Help me, please!
What can you afford?
Transfers get very minimal funding.
I think my grandmother will take care of tuition fees
Better ask if she has:
Student Budget
The estimated* cost of attendance for 2018-19 is $70,010 and includes:
Tuition: $49,330
Room charge: $9,450
Board rate: $6,840
Residential college fee: $890
Estimated miscellaneous expenses: $3,500
https://admission.princeton.edu/cost-aid/fees-payment-options
Thanks for letting me know!
When I decided to study abroad, I discussed tuition fee.
I said to my grandmother that “if I go to the private school, my tuition fee gonna be over $ 75k. Could you give me money for that?”
She said that she can afford whole my tuition fee.
BTW, I found a mistake my article.
What school I do in community college? => What should I do in community college?
English always helps.
Why do you want to go to the hardest schools to get into? Your chances as an international student are not good.
Yes, English is always important! I will keep that in mind
I think Princeton has a really good academic reputation in mathematics and best math professors in the world.
Thus, I decided to go Princeton. I know that it seems impossible to go there, but I want to try.
From a realistic vantage point, your probability of acceptance to Princeton is exceptionally unlikely. Princeton is one of the top undergraduate mathematics schools in the world and math concentrators require an advanced level of preparation to be considered viable. For reference, my son who scored in the top 25 in the nation in the Fermat math contest said he would have drowned in Princeton’s math department (he graduated BSE Princeton class of ‘16 summa cum laude). Your record of poor grades and difficult situations will evoke the admissions departments’ sympathy but is not likely to result in an offer of admission. I would encourage you to explore other schools
Yes, I know that Princeton University is the best undergraduate mathematics school in the world. Of course, I’ve been thinking another college(like UCLA, UCB) as well.
Do you know any math competition for community college students? I know Putnam(I gonna participate in this year) and what else? how can I build my EC? It isn’t just for top schools. but for all other colleges.
Anyway, Thanks for your advice!
Until this year, Princeton did not accept any transfer applications. They recently reinstated their transfer application process beginning with fall 2018. I am not aware of their having announced how many transfer students they are planning to accept; however, it would be a fair guess that their plans would be somewhat similar to Harvard and Yale which enroll only about 20 transfer students each in most years. You’d have a much better chance at NYU which accepts 100 times as many transfer students = around 2000 transfer students each year. NYU Courant and NYU Tandon engineering would both provide an exceptional math education. Also, NYU has a reputation for being quite friendly to full pay students.
Princeton announced that they will enroll 12 transfer students!
I’d recommend that you give up the idea of a dream school and work to create a solid college list that includes reach, match, and safety schools you can apply to as a transfer student and that you would be happy to attend. The people I see who get hurt by the college admission process (both for freshman and transfer admissions) are the ones who focus on one or two hyper-competitive schools and then don’t get in. Research the math offerings and professors at a wide variety of colleges, cast a wide net and recognize that (assuming no major hook) Princeton is a tremendous reach for any transfer student.
Thanks, all guys!
I know that transferring to Princeton is really tough that I would not have a chance to get in.
However, as you know, Princeton has many excellent professors and great students. I want to study with them.
Ok, I will make a list of colleges which I can go.
I think UCB and UCLA are good for math, but I want to go to Private college. That is a problem.
I talked my counselor, and he doesn’t know what to do for getting to Private college.
I’m no expert whatsoever, but even though you had D’s in high school, it seems that you have done a lot since then. These schools( Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Yale, etc.) are all massive reaches. Even if those Ds were As you still may have not had a great chance. But your story seems compelling, and you seem to have a reason as to why you did poorly back then, and you definitely have pulled through. You seem to have a potential to earn a seat at one of these colleges, even if not Princeton (which actually seems to be looking for CC students based on their recent admits for this year), maybe another school would accept you. Best of luck to you!
The last time that I looked MIT was actually top ranked for mathematics, but Princeton is in the top 10 worldwide and is very good. Also, MIT is not likely to be much different from Princeton in terms of your chances to get accepted. (Don’t take my comment on this seriously, I have a person reason to point this out.)
One thing to think about: Depending upon what you want to do with mathematics, it is often useful to get at least a master’s degree and possibly a PhD. I know quite a few students who did a bachelor’s at a very good university (top 50 or in some cases top 100), and then did their graduate work at somewhere such as Princeton, Harvard, or Stanford.
If you can get into Princeton or MIT as a transfer then great and go for it. However, if not, you might consider doing a bachelor’s degree at somewhere such as Michigan, one of the Universities of California, or even Toronto, McGill or UBC. I do specifically know people who did their bachelor’s at either Toronto or McGill or Michigan and then did their graduate work (Masters or PhD or both) at Harvard, Stanford, and Princeton. I used to know a few who did undergrad at Rutgers and in one case UNC and did their graduate work at Stanford.
Thus I am suggesting that you cast a wider range in terms of your choice of university for your undergraduate study. It is then possible to consider higher ranked universities for graduate school.
GoodLuck!