Chris Goodmacher

Sorry for the delay asuka! I thought I knew someone who knew someone, but I don’t.

Hopefully you and @luying3636 might be able to help each other a bit?

I’ll chime in if I think of anything, thanks for sticking around!

1. If you’re not sure, always remember that there’s minimal/no harm in applying. If you get in to a great school, great! If not, you just stay at your current school.

2. Kind of contradicting point 1: if you […]

It will still help a lot to re-take the course for two reasons:

The fact that you’re re-taking the course says a lot about you (your determination, etc.) vs. someone not re-taking it and just accepting the […]

Can you just re-take the class you got that F in? I think that would solve a lot of problems. If there’s some written rule that you can’t re-take it, there’s probably some way around them as long as you press your […]

@transfer0, thanks for sharing this, I’m sure it wasn’t easy.

The main thing I need to say, which I’m sure you already know, is that no matter what, you have to pull up your GPA: it’ll help you if you transfer, […]

Wow, congratulations! Guess you don’t need advice right now then! Good luck at American, best wishes on your success!

Hi Alana,
As the Spelman grad explained, you should go ahead and apply to transfer, and then decide later if you want actually make the switch.
Holding a 4.0 GPA or a GPA that’s as close to 4.0 as possible […]

So if your double major are closely related, for example, you can use the same credits toward both?

Often, yes. But it all depends on the policies of the school and each department.

Maybe an example will […]

Welcome back!

1) Public schools are publicly funded, so they get a lot of money from the government that private schools don’t get. They generally charge for credits (not flat rate); they just charge a lot more […]

High school grades matter a LOT less when applying to transfer, while your college grades are extremely important.
I had some really weak high school grades and I got into Dartmouth. Here’s where I explain what I […]

For the more selective schools, the transfer decisions come out in May, about two months after the application deadlines.

The main exception are the University of California schools, whose deadlines are November 30.

Prof. being an MIT grad: The professor being an MIT grad will be a plus, but your focus should always be on getting a letter from the professor that likes/knows you the most. If that prof. doesn’t like/know you, […]

Hi @asuka!

It’s not too uncommon, and it is doable. I want to reach out to some people that may know a bit more than me about transferring from HK before I answer though; I’ll respond more fully soon!

Anyone […]

Hi @2bcourageous!

I would start with looking at graduate school rankings. Since most undergraduate departments aren’t really ranked on their own, grad school rankings are the best proxy. Start with US News’ […]