Where to Transfer

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a freshman at Wake Forest at the moment and haven't found the social scene here to be my thing. Some basic stats:</p>

<p>white female from New England
Combined SAT: 780W/680M/730W
ACT: 31
Estimated GPA at WFU: 3.75-3.8
Classes taken: 200-level Latin (200 is highest here for Latin), 100-level Ancient Greek, 100-level French, first year seminar about Norse myth (random, I know...), 100-level medieval world history
Classes to be taken next semester: all three languages again, intro to linguistics, intro to economics, history of the German language
ECs: Amnesty International, Young Americans for Liberty (libertarian organization), Jefferson Society (political discussion group), volunteer/leadership work at a magnet school
Recommendations: planning on getting them from my Latin professor (head of the Classics department) and my FYS professor. Expecting them to be pretty decent and will be having both professors again next semester.</p>

<p>High school stats:
all-girls private school
GPA: started out with about a 2.8 gpa freshman year and ended with 3.9 senior year. Graduated in top of class. (There's a specific and legitimate reason for my poor early high school GPA.)
APs: Psychology 5, English Literature 5
ECs: horseback riding, skiing, volunteer work, fencing, theatre, some various clubs.</p>

<p>What I'm looking for in a college:
city or large town
above 5,000 students
Greek life/partying as minimal as possible
diverse in race, socioeconomic status, and personality--lots of different groups of people
more intellectual/artsy
not very preppy
can be in the US or Canada</p>

<p>Anyone have any good suggestions for schools that would fit my criteria? I'm not opposed to going down some in school quality.</p>

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<p>Harvard. Really, the sky is the limit. Just work on your essays</p>

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<p>Since Harvard does not accept transfer students that would be hard. </p>

<p>OP, what do you want to major in? Languages?</p>

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<p>What is your budget? Are you willing to consider a women’s college? Are you more interested in Classical Languages or in Linguistics? Barnard might work for you.</p>

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<p>Yes, I’m looking to major in languages, or, if the transfer school offers it, linguistics. Although I enjoy the Classics immensely, I’m probably not going to go into the field after college, so I’m planning on double majoring with something else (what specifically, I’m not certain).</p>

<p>My budget is unlimited. I didn’t really enjoy the single-sex environment in high school, so women’s colleges are pretty low on my list.</p>

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<p>Harvard does accept transfers again, they took 12 last year.</p>

<p>I’d look at U of Chicago and NYU.</p>

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<p>One organization’s rankings for linguistics: [Top</a> Linguistics Departments & Schools Ranked - The best colleges & universities for linguistic majors](<a href=“http://brainz.org/top-linguistics-schools-ranked/]Top”>http://brainz.org/top-linguistics-schools-ranked/)<br>
And another post which doesn’t differ much from that: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/other-college-majors/92834-best-linguistics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/other-college-majors/92834-best-linguistics.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>How would you feel about looking at MIT and the other engineering oriented, but full spectrum universities?</p>

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<p>Thanks, Erin’s Dad; I’ll check that out.</p>

<p>As for the Ivy suggestions–though I appreciate the suggestions, I have no plans of applying to one because I know I wouldn’t be able to get in. I could do well at them if I did, but I did poorly in the first two years of high school because I didn’t do work. That would spell an instant rejection from any cream-of-the-crop school.</p>

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<p>There you go, Polonius! In another thread you say that you’re looking for a place with more of an intellectual and less of a party focus. Your stats are great, your activities bear out your range of interests. You’re from New England and went South for college, so perhaps seeing another part of the country could have some appeal to you. You sound like a Chicago student to me.</p>