<p>Hope to know the answer...Thank you all.</p>
<p>sorry, I mean " the current school" by saying "obvious" Forgive me...</p>
<p>It depends... can you provide more specifics? ie. which universities and majors are you considering?</p>
<p>I imagine it depends. If you're trying to transfer "up" so to speak it would be more understandable for your transfer reasons to involve frustration over lack of challenge, but conversely, if you're transferring between equals a plea about better fit would make a more compelling case.</p>
<p>If you're transferring from community college, yes, I think its rigor definitely makes a difference.</p>
<p>What I am trying to say, I suppose, is that it probably isn't about reputation as much as what the transfer-college adcoms understand about the academic situation of the school you are transferring from in context with your reasons for transfer.</p>
<p>I have a similar situation involving my transfer from Johnson & Wales University back to Boston University, where I spent freshman year. I have a 3.85 GPA, Dean's List, Honors Program, at JW but I'm afraid the admissions staff at BU will immediately think I just cruised my way by to get that 3.85 and that it isn't really credible. The problem with that thinking though is, how do you distinguish from someone who just cruised by and did really well from someone who put in all their effort and worked their tail off to get that 3.85. I'm figuring the honor societies i joined and the honors classes I took make it so they give me the benefit of the doubt</p>
<p>Devilsrule, not at all. They will want to see what classes you are taking. They will take a 3.7 student who took hard classes at a community college over a 3.0 student from harvard. It is about your accomplishments and how well your grades are, not the reputation of your school.</p>
<p>burgler--
i am a transfer admissions counselor. the school does make a difference. so does taking honors courses. so does the number of academic "solid" courses taken per semester. we do consider the level of academic rigor undertaken by a transfer applicant. just as the quality of the student body at a high school impacts a freshman admission decision, so does the quality of the student body at a college impact the transfer admission decision.</p>
<p>obviously it is taken into consideration... but you can still get into a good school with solid academics. If it is a 3.5 student with similar EC against a 3.5 student from harvard the harvard student will more than likely be choosen (anything can happen). I also said that rigor is taken into place and that is important too. But he has a 3.8 gpa, if he hasn't taken basketweaving that gpa is very strong and a college will NOT throw that out because he doesnt have a high gpa from a top10 university.</p>
<p>dude, basket weaving is tough.</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>true, i shouldn't have used such a hard class as an example. Take organic chem for example, if you take that class they are going to think you are just trying to make an easy schedule.</p>
<p>Honor classes are for certain students but not me...</p>
<p>I plan to apply when I'm still a freshman. Then how can the admission officer judge the academic capability of students by the course in one sememster when I'm still getting accustomed to the new circumstance? And I wonder to what extent can I choose the more difficult courses than the others'? Taking placement test or TESTOUT to attend the upper level class?</p>