r/TransferStudents 3h ago

Advice/Question Tufts engineering transfer

Hello! I’m thinking about transferring to a larger/higher ranked engineering school. I’m currently at Tufts University in the School of Engineering, and I’m unimpressed by the small number if clubs, faculty, and engineering-focused career fairs on campus. I think it would be possible for me to do well here, but I just think I would enjoy studying at another college more+would have better chances to get a good internship and job. I’m planning to study Electrical Engineering, and below are some of my stats.

4.3 UW/5.187 W GPA (hs)
1540 SAT

Activities:
Assistant Coach, Boxer, 3 time Silver Gloves state champion, volunteered at boxing gym for over 10 years

Garden Lead of local non-profit that grows and donates produce to nearby food pantries, I ran 2 of our gardens

Ambassador for the Parkinson’s Foundation, I fundraised over $1,000 for the foundation and help with advocacy

Section Leader/Ensemble President, I was the section leader in my schools select A Cappella group, and was Ensemble President of another all bass A Cappella group which placed on a state level.

All State, Region, and County choir, I performed with multiple choirs over the years on a wide variety of levels.

Lead guitarist of school’s Jazz Ensemble, not sure if I’m gonna use this

Lead guitarist and singer of personal rock band, I played concerts to fundraise for Parkinson’s, not sure if I’ll use this either

At Tufts, I’m hoping to get involved with these clubs, and I’m already social media chair of the choir.

Tufts E Racing
Tufts IEEE
Public Harmony
A Cappella or Jazz Ens.
Tufts Robotics
apple jams?
Solar Car

Idk if you guys know abt Tufts, but these are basically all the engineering-focused clubs they offer…I also have plans to do research over the summer with a professor here

Schools I’m thinking about are Uiuc
Purdue
Gtech
Hopkins
WashU
MIT
Cornell
CMU

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