<p>I have a 3.3/3.4 GPA and will be looking to transfer for fall admissions. I am applying out of Franklin and Marshall College in PA.</p>
<p>EC: interned this semester, work on campus 10+ a week, part of several clubs</p>
<p>Will be applying for fall 08 transfer admissions for junior standing. Please chance me and give me any information that you can.</p>
<p>I'm currently trying to make a list of where I should apply and where I shouldnt on the base of it being too far a reach. If you have any advice I would appreciate it</p>
<p>Bard
Bates
Bucknell
Colgate
Carleton
Davidson
Dickinson
Emory
Holy Cross
Kenyon
Lehigh
Ohio State
Reed
Skidmore
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Wake Forest
Whitman
Colby
Grinell
McGill
U-Miami
NYU
Pepperdine
USC
U-Penn
Tulane</p>
<p>A 3.3/3.4 is very good in college. Work as hard as you can to get your GPA up for the remainder of this semester if you're still taking exams and especially next semester. Many colleges require mid-semester grades when you apply, so having straight A's on that mid-semester grade sheet will improve your chances at any school you apply to.</p>
<p>The internship is very good...try to work something you learned from that internship into your essay and maybe get a rec letter from a supervisor you worked with in addition to a teacher at F & M.</p>
<p>This might sound obvious, but truly do work on your application essay...showing why you want to transfer w/o bashing F & M, but listing all of the opportunities you want to realize at your intented transfer school.</p>
<p>As for your list, is there a certain geographic area you especially envision yourself in? </p>
<p>One last note to let you know that you can definitely make it... I had a 3.39 at the end of my freshman year, then sent a mid-semester grade sheet with all A's during this fall of my sophomore year, and just got accepted to a top 35 national school. You can do it!</p>
<p>Thanks! Ill keep what you said in mind. I do not have a general geographic area, my top schools are likely to be Wake Forest, Davidson, Reed, and probably OSU (probably go there for a very affordable price). Also if anyone could tell me if any or all of these schools are need blind for transfer admission I would appreciate it!</p>
<p>As I understand it, OSU's transfer admission process places almost all of their focus on College GPA (if you have more than 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours). I'd say you would have a pretty solid chance of gaining admission there. It won't be as easy as in the past, but it certainly won't be that hard. Out of your top schools, I would say Reed will be the hardest to get into (although they do have a 40% acceptance rate for transfers, which is slightly higher than Wake Forest's). The "soft" factors will play a much larger role in that admission than in the OSU admission. As a side-note (and I imagine this is something you already know), OSU's campus culture is vastly different from Reed's. OSU's social life is great if you want to go to frat parties on the weekends and talk about football; however, finding intellectual conversation at OSU will take more time than at Reed (from all estimates). The people at OSU are quite nice, but you won't be charmed by their wit (for the general student body, there are of course intellectuals at OSU, it will just take longer to find them). I have also heard mixed reports about how accessible the professors are. Supposedly, if you approach them and show genuine interest in their field you'll be able to strike up a conversation. Outside of that you might have a harder time getting to know them. In short, OSU's professors are likely to be less focused on undergraduates than at a place like Reed.</p>
<p>On my list are there any schools that I can feel safe about applying to?</p>
<p>Though I have not completely hated my time here and actually appreciate it, I have come to realize for a wide variety of reasons it is not the place that I should end my college experience. Do the people that you know at F&M enjoy it?</p>
<p>The people I know well are freshmen, but I think they like it. I think my school has like 7 people at F&M who are freshmen. I have another friend from out of state who plays hockey for F&M (female). She liked it last time I asked.</p>
<p>I want to say thanks again for everyone who has commented so far on this thread. If any else has anything to add I would really appreciate it. Thanks.</p>
<p>Good God! These are very different schools! What kind of school do you want to attend? I think that you should narrow this down by thinking about where you want to attend. Small school, large school, hippie population, preppy kids, pot school, keg school, liberal, conservative, urban area, isolated? These factors really will affect your happiness more than where the school stands in the rankings.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. All the schools on my list have their pluses and minuses. The last thing on my mind when selecting them was the rankings, of course I would like to go to an academically equivalent or better school than I am instead of going to a weaker school. I can see myself at any of these places being perfectly happy. But I would prefer a smaller college that has a smaller teacher student ratio and a strong premed program.</p>
<p>I believe that Dickinson and Bucknell have fairly strong biology departments, and are on the smaller side for a LAC. It seems that some of the schools on your list may be less oriented to a pre-med plan.</p>