<p>Is it easier to transfer after your freshman year or sophomore year?</p>
<p>after soph year, definetly</p>
<p>Several counselors have informed me that it is easier to transfer as a freshman, depending on your circumstances.</p>
<p>I am currently a sophomore and I REALLY want to transfer. Would it make a difference to colleges (namely Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell, U Chicago, Northwestern) if I told them that I would be willing to stay for additional time (thus spending more than 4 years in college) if it meant getting in, and fulfilling their educational requirements? Would it be a bad thing to say?</p>
<p>Yeah its not worth it, you'll be able to finish in 4 years most likely...</p>
<p>So does anyone have any more ideas as to which one is easier, freshman or sophomore transfer?</p>
<p>You won't get into Penn-Wharton as a sophomore transfer. They probablly take 2 at the most from other schools. Unless, you have 4.0, 1500+, crazy recs, and some insane ecs.</p>
<p>crazy and insane = euphemisim for 1 of a kind.</p>
<p>well for the school of arts and sciences I mean? thanks</p>
<p>I guess I'm kind of conflicted on the issue. As a junior transfer, an applicant has more grades for their cumulative gpa, wider selection of professors to write recs, and greater opportunity (like ec's) to define themselves in college. But as a sophomore transfer, the transfer would have 3 years at that school (which colleges would probably prefer). For example, Columbia says that they prefer applicants who apply for sophomore standing. Does anyone have any idea? Is Columbia's position a pretty good indication of general consensus?</p>
<p>That is not the general consensus. A lot of high-ranked universities do not allow junior transfers and they do not allow one to relinquish their credits. Perhaps Columbia is an exception to the norm, but all the universities I am applying to do not allow anything above sophmore.</p>
<p>The issue with a junior is regards to the major, I think. The university that is accepting the transfer as a certain requirement for the amount of hours towards a major to be completed at their school. Thus, since a junior will have already taken a plethora of courses, that feeds into his major, in his freshman/junior year, it would be impossible for him to fulfill the requirement at the school he is trying to transfer to.</p>
<p>I guess I'm wording it wrong. When I said junior transfer, I meant a current sophomore applying to transfer in as a junior, same with sophomore transfer as current freshman applying to transfer in as a sophomore. Does that change things? I'm just curious as to the chances of acceptance for a transfering freshman vs. a transfering sophomore</p>
<p>can i transfer into wharton after my sophomore year?</p>