Transferring to schools that aren't NU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a freshman at Northwestern U and well, it's not for me. I'm thinking of just going to live at home and going to Carleton which isn't too bad, but some people are trying to convince me to apply to other schools. </p>

<p>I'm looking at UCLA, USC, Syracuse, Brown, and Georgetown. Yeah, these are all completely different types of schools, and I'm doing this for a purpose. Which is to give me lots of options when the time comes to decide. </p>

<p>Right now I've got a 3.85 GPA (two A's and two A-'s) at NU (and I have all A's in my classes this quarter) and I had 3.87 in high school unweighted. (Our school didn't weight things so I don't really know what it would be weighted) I was 5th out of 250ish. I know that I can get at least two good recs because I know two professors here relatively well (one in journalism, another in communcations.) </p>

<p>As for standardized scores, my SAT was 1540 in the old system with 800/800/790 Writing/MathIIC/French w Reading</p>

<p>I was on the journalism track, but I have no idea what I would be now. Maybe comparative literature.</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

<p>I'd rather not spend too much money on applications, so if something's too much of a reach I won't bother.</p>

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<p>I think you can get in anywhere with that GPA from NU, and you are in contention even at Harvard and Yale. Brown has gotten alot nicer to transfers in recent years so I would say you are a lock. What didn't you like about NU? That might help in helping you pick schools. I transferred from a good school to another, Columbia to Dartmouth. I just couldnt deal with Columbia's social (campus) life, or lack thereof.</p>

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<p>gah! harvard and yale are possibly my least favourite schools in existence... after u chicago. </p>

<p>i didnt like the general atmosphere at NU. they try too hard to insert themselves among the elites (for example our textbooks always say things like, the elite schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and Northwestern, which is ********) while still trying to be 'fun' like a state school. there are too many frats. gah.</p>

<p>anyway, thanks for the reply! what about stanford do you think? stanford was my dream school for all of high school... then i got rejected.</p>