Where to transfer?

College Search & Selection
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<p>So, I definitely want to transfer. Here's my stats, where should I apply?</p>

<p>Freshman at Bard College
Chem/Psych Major
A First Year Seminar
A Calculus II
B+ General Psychology
B/B+ General Chemistry
30 ACT (34R/31E/30M/26S)</p>

<p>I play college rugby, write for The Observer (the official school paper), in Amnesty Internatial (currently planning a human rights festival), and am currently taking Brazilian Jujistu. I play percussion and am currently playing in a psychedelic jam group. I also am a research assistant to the head of the Chem department; I do pretty expensive and complicated experiements for a professor with a small group of select chemisty student.</p>

<p>In high school I was class treasurer, played four years varsity football, had multiple bands which recorded and played shows, and held two jobs for almost all of high school. I had a 3.2 UW at private catholic and was 32/177. I took the hardest course load possible.</p>

<p>Right now I am looking into Tufts, Vassar, Brown, and possibly Amherst. Where else should I look that is reasonable? I'd like to stay in the northeast.</p>

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<p>Why do you want to transfer?</p>

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<p>Bard is a weird place. That's the only way I can explain it. I love the academics, but as a preppy athlete who was popular, I just can't take the social atmosphere; mainly the hipsters and geek-chic kids. I love the intellectual atmosphere and the activism on campus, but I just can't do the geek-chic and hipsters.</p>

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<p>Sounds like the Patriot League fits your personality. Division 1 Academics and students in the top 10 % of their class. Preppy and mainstream.</p>

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<p>Sorry Mean to say Patriot League is NCAA Division 1 Athletics and great academics! </p>

<p>The</a> Patriot League - Official Athletic Site</p>

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<p>Holy Cross is in the Patriot League. In its 2008 The Best 361 Colleges, The Princeton Review awarded Holy Cross a 98/100 academic rating - the highest of any Catholic institution of higher education, including Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, and Boston College.</p>

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<p>No, no, no, no...I don't not like Bard because of the lack of athletics. In fact, I wanted a lack of athletics because I do not think that a large commitment to athletics is important in the college atmosphere. I just don't want to be an outcast BECAUSE I am an athlete.</p>

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<p>I'm thinking of Bowdoin and Wesleyan....matches? I don't know how much my HS stats will hurt me.</p>

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<p>virginia anyone????? Or williams or Amherst?</p>

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<p>Do you think my stats are good enough for Amherst or Williams?</p>

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<p>I don't know. Have you looked at the stats of students who have tried to transfer in?</p>

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<p>Most schools don't release them.</p>

<p>Right now my list is:</p>

<p>Tufts
Bowdoin
Wesleyan
Vassar</p>

<p>Maybe Brown or Amherst?</p>

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<p>Check collegeboard.com to look at the transfer admission rates. Several of the schools on your list have extremely low rates. You need to have at least a couple of colleges on your list with reasonable admission rates.</p>

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<p>I know how to find the rates. That tells me nothing about the applicants.</p>

<p>Well the thing is, there is no point in transfering to a school with academics worse than Bard's when I have a $24,000 a year scholarship. No schools that are on par with Bard, or that are better, have reasonable admission rates. If all else fails, I stick it out at Bard. </p>

<p>If you can find me a GOOD school with reasonable admissions rates, let me know.</p>

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<p>Correct that the "rates" don't tell you anything about the applicants, but let's assume they are as strong of applicants as the frosh; hence, the Amhersts and Wms of the world are more difficult to get into as a transfer than frosh. </p>

<p>BUCKNELL
COLGATE
ROCHESTER
engineering schools like RPI, CWRU</p>

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<p>I'd more like to know what kind of schools the successful applicants went to and a range of GPAs.</p>

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<p>bumppppppp</p>