<p>I am a sophomore at NYU in CAS with a 3.6 GPA and ok activities. I really want to transfer to a small liberal arts college in the Midwest or Northeast, and I know I should be able to do this rather easily. BUT transfer admissions are really tricky, and I was wondering if you think I will DEFINITELY get into either Bard, Wesleyen, Macalester, Carleton, or Grinnell. Rather than list my high school stats, I'll just say that I was originally accepted by NYU, Amherst, UC Berkeley, UChic, and waitlisted at Yale. </p>
<p>p.s. anyone considering transfer to NYU, you should know that it is nearly impossible to transfer into any of the schools besides CAS, Steinhardt, or Gallatin. Tisch and Stern are practically impossible. Also, you will get no institutional aid, only federal loans and maybe a few grants. If you have the money and want to get into anything besides Tisch or Stern, you will probably get in fairly easily, though, and enjoy the school much more than I have.</p>
<p>I'm applying to the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (for Sports Management), which is one of the easier divisions to get accepted to for high school applicants (comparable to GSP, if not easier from what I've heard + read). Do you anything about how difficult/easy it is to transfer into this division?</p>
<p>Chances - none of those schools will be definite given your GPA. Carleton is especially difficult for transfer students and accepts something like less than 5% of applicants. Wesleyan is typically not so hard to transfer into, but last year they only took around 20%, so obviously not a definite. Grinnell is nicer to transfers, but your 3.6 does not make it a safety. Same for Bard.
In other words, apply where you want, but pick another safety if you really want out of NYU. And the deadline has passed this year for all of those schools expect Grinnell.</p>
<p>As for transferring into NYU, I don't know if you have insider knowledge and are just referring to this coming transfer term. Is there over-enrollment for Tisch and Stern? In the past, Stern has accepted around 28% of transfers, so obviously it is not impossible. I don't know much about Tisch.</p>