<p>Well high school messe me up big time. I ended up with a mere 3.3 gpa and a lousy 1200 (math/reading) score.. Now I'm off to Baruch college where I will e stuck at a crappy campus with crappy ghetto wannabe kids from the many gangster boroughs of NYC (no offense). Anyway, I want to transfer out.. Now.. Well no but after 2 years for sure. If I get a 4.0 gpa my freshman and sophmore years, have ECs, and perhaps a good internship for next summer, how are my chances to get into a top institution? If anything, I will settle for Binghamton if they give me a worthy scholarship. I want a residential real college experience not some crappy commuting one that Baruch offers.. What are some good schools that can offer me admission and decent financial aid ( my efc was 17k). Thanks alot! I'm a business major btw</p>
<p>Union college gives a lot of good financial aid from my own experience and it’s a nice small private LAC in upstate NY.
Pretty good school and they have seem to be quite generous with the money, might be worth looking into. I don’t know how it is for transfers though.
It’s no Ivy of course. :P</p>
<p>“gangster boroughs”? </p>
<p>lol, you’re an idiot.</p>
<p>That was pretty offensive. Just because you say no offense doesn’t mean no one will get offended. My dad used to do that. Actually it’s even worse because when you say no offense you acknowledge the fact that what you said is potentially harmful, only you’re ignoring that fact and saying it anyway.</p>
<p>You’re probably not going to get a good financial aid package as a transfer, especially with an expected financial contribution of $17,000.</p>
<p>Transferring to those colleges will still be difficult. They don’t accept transfer students every single year.</p>
<p>A better goal for a school like that would be to get into it for grad school, law school, or their MBA program in the future.</p>
<p>Stanford accepts like…3% of transfer applicants. lol I think I heard Dean Shaw say 24 out of 1240 got accepted this year.</p>
<p>If you work hard you should be able to get into a good school. Maybe not HYP, or Stanford or whatever, but a good school. However, don’t go to Baruch with the mindset that your stay is temporary. If you do that then you’ll have a harder time making friends, and will just make yourself miserable. </p>
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<p>Besides the ridiculous “no offense” tag, I wonder how many “crappy ghetto wannabe kids” there are on CC to even take personal offense to that…</p>
<p>:/</p>
<p>You deserve your situation, frankly.</p>
<p>FFS man, you posted this in transfer students too! I have the same response as I had there, so ill just repost:</p>
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<p>and the link to that if you are curious <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/755956-am-i-doooooomed.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/755956-am-i-doooooomed.html</a></p>
<p>" Am I doooooomed???"</p>
<p>LOL LOL LOL LOL</p>
<p>“I want a residential real college experience”</p>
<p>Not that great. Basically, I stay on campus as long as a commuter would, and then I sit around in my room procrastinating all night. </p>
<p>“at a crappy campus with crappy ghetto wannabe kids from the many gangster boroughs of NYC”</p>
<p>I look forward to reading about you in the newspaper: Baruch Student beaten to death with textbooks after calling fellow classmates ‘gangster wannabes’</p>
<p>lololololol</p>
<p>With your GPA and SAT I don’t think you’re too good for anything better than community college. Get over yourself.</p>
<p>Now that I look back on what I wrote… It was pathetic lol. Sorry about that, but please can you give me a straight answer? Where should I apply for transfer admisssions?</p>
<p>you can always go to a decent and good college that isn’t an ivy and then apply for the ivies as a graduate.</p>
<p>Well, where do you live? Apply to your State School!!! If you really don’t want to be at Baruch, than go to your local State University - thats what you are supposed to do when you are having troubles financially. I think your expectations are way to high for someone who apparently slacked off in high school.</p>
<p>There are so many high school graduates who did way worse than you and ended up at community colleges. If you look in transfer students, there is a very inspiring thread about how many high school students slacked off and didn’t get into great colleges - but soon worked hard to do better. Many have gone on to Ivy leagues!</p>
<p>Its never too late man - you need to stop saying “IM SO SCREWED BARUCH STINKS!!!”, and start thinking about what YOU can do better. As a high school student, I had a dual enrollment at a local CC. I saw the countless amounts of people who struggled through high school or couldn’t pay for a university level education. There were plenty of much older people who were simply trying to get a degree and support their families better than working at simple labor jobs.</p>
<p>These people are in worse cases than you and all they have is the ambition to keep working hard. TBH, I really respected the people in my classes who tried to turn their lives around like that, especially the night class students who worked full time jobs.</p>
<p>Don’t look too much into transfers when YOU HAVEN’T EVEN BEGUN COLLEGE. I really don’t think you understand what its going to be like. Give yourself time to grow first. If you reapply with the exact same mentality and no changes, why are you expecting a different result, especially when you want nice financial aid!</p>
<p>Try for Birmingham if you have a good GPA & ECs your first year in college. If Ivies are in your future, it’s for grad school.</p>
<p>Get that GPA first, then we’ll talk. There are countless kids who talk big and say they’ll get a 4.0 GPA, but the reality is that the majority of them don’t actually go through with it. If you are absolutely determined, this CAN happen. However, you should definitely not limit yourself to the schools with the highest reputations.</p>
<p>As mentioned before, Stanford has a very low transfer admission rate (single digits, even harder to get in than as a freshman). Harvard didn’t accept any transfers my sophomore year. Yale is in the same category. All extremely difficult and unless you have a flawless academic record with outstanding recommendations and extracurriculars, you don’t have an icecubes chance in hell at those schools.</p>
<p>Best of luck</p>
<p>I’m the queen of transferring up. SUNY Plattsburgh >> Fordham >> Columbia and I want to go to MIT for grad.</p>
<p>I don’t recall anyone asking you where you transferred. What makes you think anyone cares?</p>
<p>it’s pretty encouraging for those who want to transfer. but i don’t think there are many successful cases.</p>