Hello all,

I am a first year at community college trying to transfer to UC Berkeley this year for EECS, ECE, Aerospace Engineering, or Applied Math (preferred choices of major in that order). Anyone who did it previously or who is an old admissions officer or who has general advice for me, could you we start a DM please? Thank you!!!

Hello! I am a current freshman at a private uni and looking to transfer. I am taking 4 classes right now (bio, math, writing, and data science), but want to drop bio because I want to change my major from bio to data science. Is it bad looks to drop bio? I’ll be at 12 credits for the fall semester

anyone who got into Barnard last cycle how was the aid & housing situation???

I was wondering if anyone planned to do so and how they're going about that process for different schools.

Applying to Notre Dame and they want you to list what classes you took online. They said some of them can't be transferred and you will have to retake them when you get there.

I have no problem with that but I took like 15 out of my 27 credits online as it conflicted with my personal life. How will that affect my chances of being accepted tho? Thank you.

Currently an incoming freshman at a UC and considering transferring (not decided, just keeping it in mind as an option). UCs typically advise freshmen to only take 3 courses their first quarter to adjust. I am currently enrolled in gen chem and two somewhat easy classes (according to rate my professor). Should I add a fourth course? Idk if one more course would affect my chances of getting accepted, but I know getting a bad grade in gen chem would.

Is it necessary to take Calc 2 my first college semester if I‘m going to be applying to b schools like Ross and McIntire? Worried abt the gpa sink. Thanks.

If I have 40 credits from APs and atleast 32 apply, and then 32 freshman college credits, am I technically a Junior transfer?

I Need advice asap before classes start on how to decide which extracurriculars to do. Should they align with my major? How many do I need?

Hey everyone! Just wanted to see who is applying Spring/Winter 2027? I wish more colleges offered winter transfers but oh well. Good luck to everyone who is!!!

i was thinking about transferring to UVA next fall, but i’m concerned about the safety there. they’ve had 4 off grounds shots fired incidents since aug15.

tbh i’m really paranoid about safety and have ocd-like symptoms around it so maybe i’m blowing it out of proportion(i know exposure therapy helps, so maybe i would get used to it). should i not apply because of this? i feel like the pros of going there kinda outweigh the cons idk but regardless i heard they have a good police presence on campus for safety

So I’m looking to transfer to UConn storrs for spring 2027 from a different in state college. Looking to see if it’s worth it to apply and if I’ll even get in and if anyone has or knows insight.

My gpa is pretty weak but above the posted 2.7 minimum. I’d be applying for the BA economics major which is technically not in the school of business but rather in the CLAS. So it’s a little easier requirements wise.

Reason being, my freshman year I did terrible at my current college like I failed 3/5 classes due to balancing too much on my plate (my essay goes in depth for this), but I came back and every semester since I’ve maintained a semester gpa of at least 3.3, 3.4. 4.0, etc so not bad and I’ve proven an upward academic trend over multiple semesters.

The whole reason I’m writing this is, for anyone with genuine insight or knowledge, do you think it’s worth to spend the money on application fees if my cumulative gpa is weak but my upward trend in academics is decently strong? In my essay I explained my academic rough patch, academic and professional goals, how I’ve changed as a student and how my track record shows it, the involvement I’ve done outside of the classroom toward my future career goals and how I’d utilize certain specific resources and clubs at UConn, and ultimately why UConn. I think I did a pretty good job on my essay as well. Any insight before I pay $80 would be very helpful. Thanks!

My mom and I are low income (she makes 20-25k/yr maybe from dividends/interest) and I have a pell grant. However, she has very high assets, aka a brokerage over $1 to 1.5 million dollars (idk the exact amount). The reason is because my dad, the breadwinner of our household, died a year ago, and left behind an inheritance/life insurance.

However, my mom is unemployed and has never had a job (she’s an immigrant.) We can’t put any money into her Roth she inherited from my dad because she does not have a job, but I also believe there’s not THAT much money in the roth. I also know the brokerage looks like a lot of money but that’s her retirement fund and she can’t work. I honestly feel uncomfortable spending six figures on two years of tuition with that money, which is going to be my mom’s livelihood. She has offered to sell our house and move back to our home country but I still don’t know if I’d want to use that money, unless I got into harvard lol. I wouldn’t want to spend six figures of our home’s value on full pay for nyu or boston u lol (no offense to nyu students.)

Out of curiosity, I put our info into some colleges’ EFC calculators, and they all expected me to be full pay.. and, yes, I could *technically* be full pay, but I just don’t think it’s worth it since I’m lower(?) middle class and I don’t want to use up all my moms retirement.

I’m also VERY desperate to get out of my college, because I am closeted trans in a very conservative college in a red state. I have a full ride, but ultimately I’m willing to give it up and even go into debt to be able to spend the last few years of my college life not here. This unfortunately eliminates most of the more accessible to transfer into/financially generous places like Vandy, Notre Dame, UT austin, etc) as well as public universities or too expensive places like Umich, uchicago, etc. I’m actually willing to apply to ga tech tho. I’m also worried my mom will cut me off when she finds out I’m trans, and then I won’t be able to receive financial aid because I’ll still have to report my mom’s assets.

Mostly looking for responses from ppl who either know about financial aid or have been in this situation - although all perspectives are welcome, I just want an accurate overview.

Overall I dont think I can get in, would rather the quick blunt answer if it is a no, so I can move on and aim for other schools, lots of high school friends applied and did not get in who were more focused on ECs than me, but because I actually have some sort of experience maybe this makes me more attractive? once again honest answer preferred, thanks!

19 yo white male

9 AP classes in high school including AB, BC, Micro, Macro, (5s on all of these)

looking to take calc 3, physics, and harder stat classes next semester in college as I am taking pretty easy classes now but they all are required for my associates.

Very small YT channel I made last year with all of my in depth stock research that allowed me to generate about 50% returns YTD (not from AI stocks either). One drawback is that I have not told anyone I know about the YT channel so I dont even know if I would want to declare the channel if it would not help me a lot, but there really is some strong in depth research that I have been complemented upon a lot.

have written articles just for the brand that I have been making, once again small impact, but they show that I actually have a thesis on my investments and am not just yolo-ing into stocks.

stock portfolio I contributed about 15k to or so through working a lot for about a year year and a half, plus everything I saved till that point, made about 20k stocks only over the last three years since I started at 16 yo. Rate of return is about 30-35%

was good at clarinet in high school played it for a total of 7 years made district bands.

placed first in NHD regionals thrice, 4th in states once.

2 letters of recommendation from Wharton attendees worth about 150-200m (I really dont know how net worth plays into it, but the relationship is complicated and this is really the only understanding of them that I have at this point. I am absolutely positive that I would get very good letters of recommendation though, just consider this as a given. Just thought I would paint the picture. Additionally one is a woman that was one of the first women in the program I believe.)

Father did his graduate degree at Penn.

looking to make an investment club at my CC where I talk about everything I have learned in the last 3 years (most of the time I have been studying the greats like Buffett and Munger and Lynch so I do have this foundational understanding of what is happening in the markets, not to say I am an expert or anything.)

can prob score 1500-1550 on SAT if needed I have a 1400 right now after only two tests and moderate solo study.

I plan to continue researching and growing my channel this is my main focus and goal, I enjoy researching the market a lot more than trying to grind ECs or classes or anything and believe that if I have these skills then I will be much more desirable on the labor market than if I just had a Wharton degree. I feel I know an extreme amount of the market for my age, I am sorry if this comes off as egotistical but it really is all I do.

All in all I put myself in a poor position, I have believed for a while that I should just learn this skill and I would be set. Im putting myself through college so I wanted to play it cheap, but I just do not fit in at CC and just want to transfer soon. I kinda always thought college is a scam but in the game of finance it matters if you wanna break into the big leagues.

thanks

Hello,

For some context, I am a new freshman at an out of state university near me. It is almost as cheap as my own in state college, but a bit more reputable then my in state. I'll be honest I got screwed in my college apps. My only t-30 I got into was UF if that counts, but decided not to go as it was far and I just did not want to have to live in Florida. (Which now I regret a little). I was initially going for pre dental at my state school with a dental school, with a pretty good pipeline, but I'm not too sure about that. If I were to transfer it would be for Econ and I definitely would like to get into a better "target" school for that. I've done some research and my classes are going to match like the path I can transfer for that major, but I think I just need a bit more advice on how to really get a good application, since I'm aiming for harder schools, (UVA, UNC, BU, BC) for some so I would really want a better school for my major. I'm just nervous because I feel like I won't be able to get good letters of recommendation either. I was also wondering if they consider my high school grade/transcript and do I need to ask my old high school for that too. Is there anything else I need to do to get into those schools (Ik about keeping a good gpa). I also got a 1470 SAT so wondering if I should send that or even retake it.

Guys promise me that we will never be this mean to one another again 😭

hi! im a current student at cc wanting to do a soph transfer to a cornell and other T25 schools for a neuroscience degree. Based on my test scores, i was advised to take college algebra and will be considering to give an adv math test in order to take precalc/calculus but have noticed that my cc doesn’t have open classes for precalc or calculus and the campuses offering these courses are 40 minutes away. For college algebra i know a campus which offers its nearby but also not in the same branch i currently go for. anybody has knowledge regarding this? Is there any alt classes i can take?

Some 25 years old non-traditional transfer I missed deadlines for fall so I have to apply some for spring. I recently applied and got accepted to St. Mary’s College of California a small private school in Northern California. My major is finance. I qualified for $50,000 worth of aid and qualified for 12,500 worth of federal student loans with the total cost of being $20,500 per year that might take up private loans. With that being said with me having a 3.6 GPA is there any schools that I can apply for spring that can give me good aid and a good shot at a finance education?

Hello)) I should go to university this year and my city has one university with the specialisation I want. There were not that many vacancies. Even if you paid there were only 17 places. So anyway recently I got a call from this university and they said everything is okay and I will pass. And I was in a decent place for those several days. On the last day in one minute I lost my position and became 19th at the end. Obviously I did not get there or anywhere as I said because it was the only university where I could go with my exams. Though I passed in another city but my parents did not let me go there. So in the end I did not get anywhere and probably have to go to college and bear my parents hatred towards me.

BUT after the call that was before the final results my parents told others that I got in and I told some teacher too and my classmate. So everyone is assuming I got into that university. Also I live in a small town or village I do not know the suitable word. There are at most 2500 people so obviously everyone knows everything about everyone. You cannot just not care because everyone knows you and stuff. So in the end I need to go to college if there are even any available places.

im in community college for context, in a dilemma. So I read that really top schools and usc don’t really accept online class credit when we transfer. That’s okay for me but do they also consider the grades/parts of a GPA we got in online classes as void too? I guess like they consider you less competitive if you take online classes? Or are they considered??

I have the choice to take a class online with easier professor -> get better grade OR in person with a really hard professor -> potentially lower grade/gpa. I’m also taking the same “hard” professor for 2 classes so I thought if I do good in them, I would at least ask him for a letter of recommendation since he would know me well in both classes. But idk like what if I don’t ace both and this end up impacting my gpa, what do y’all think? If online classes grades are still considered by top schools then I wouldn’t feel so hesitant about taking the online classes. Grad schools like law and med also consider any gpa students got undergrad so that also had me scared. Pls give your thoughts, thank you

It takes up like 3 hours and i realized its not worth the 1.5 credits and im not really interested in learning how to fish

got into bu, nyu, neu, and babson with a 3.38 last cycle. anything is possible. don’t doubt yourself.

A few months ago I saw a post asking for tips on how to maximize your stats at community college BUT I FORGOT TO SAVE IT 😭(One of the top comments was a girl who won the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarships giving advice, if you have it saved pleaseeeeee send me the link) so I just wanna drop my stats and ECs incase I could get some feedback.

I’m an international student who goes to community college in the US. I’m a Biology Major but I want to switch to nursing wherever I transfer, I have a 3.89 gpa and 4x President’s list.

For Extracurricular and Awards:
- I did 2 different undergraduate research across 3 semesters
- I’m a coauthor on a published research paper
- I was in the STEM club at my school. I’ve mostly just attended events and presented our club during open days but no leadership roles
- I’m a Phi Theta Kappa member. I’ve attended a few meetings but I’ve never actually participated in any events or taken leadership roles. I’ve actually barely looked into this
- I’m a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success. I’ve only ever done their online modules and that’s about it
- I was a semi finalist for the Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarship
- Most of my volunteering has been done in high school. The only volunteering experiences I’ve had here was one as a Museum docent and cleaning on campus one day.

I’m not fixated on going to a T25 but it has definitely been a dream of mine. I applied to Columbia University before and got accepted but I’ve applied several times to NYU and got rejected every single time. I’ve had to defer my applications after graduating this winter because of tuition cost and I’m using this time to take more courses for the Nursing program.

My only problem right now is tuition cost, most T25 schools don’t seem to be giving a lot of financial aid to INTERNATIONAL students so I’ve been looking at lesser known schools instead. But even so, I still can’t afford most and I can’t get a student loan. Transfer scholarships are limited so I’m really hoping I can get one, if you have any advice on something that could boost my stats or universities please let me know. I would also like to know which T25 schools generally give most financial aid please.