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1. The Stanford financial aid office website says this: “Our admission program is need-blind, meaning, for all but some international applicants, financial status will not affect the admission decision.”

2. See […]

Hi, Alana.  Thanks for sharing your situation.  I have a friend who transferred TO Spelman.  She recently graduated from there.  I asked her for her thoughts, and here’s what she said:

I will say that Spelman is […]

Your GPA is very important for your transfer application.  For international students, most colleges/universities have a minimum TOEFL score requirement, so be sure to obtain at least the minimum TOEFL score for […]

If you haven’t already, check out some of the articles we’ve written on transferring from a community college: http://transferweb.com/topics/cc-articles/#.UFPdfBj407l

You seems to have solid reasons for wanting to transfer.  You just need to know how to convey them.  I wrote some tips in this article:
<a href="http://transferweb.com/all-transfers/the-college-transfer-admissions-essay-three-keys/#.UFPbQBj407k&quot; […]

You should definitely try for all of those schools.  Having a 3.9 GPA would make you a competitive applicant.  If you don’t mind paying for the transfer applications and writing the essays, there doesn’t seem to […]

Are you considering applying to transfer to other schools, too?
If you look up UCLA in our college directory (http://transferweb.com/college/university-of-california-los-angeles/#.UFANehj407k), you’ll see this […]

If the information isn’t available in our college directory, then you can try going directly to the school’s website.  For example, if you go to Suffolk University’s website, you get this information:

3.0 is the […]

Each applicant is unique, so I suggest looking up schools according to your profile, interests, and anything you’re considering in a school.  You can use the college/university directory we have on this website.  […]

I would start by creating a list of schools that you want to apply to transfer to.  Include a range of schools.  Include at least two schools that fall into these categories:

Safety schools

“Just right” […]

For some schools, applying a second time shows that you have a great desire to attend that school, and therefore, applying again helps your application to some extent.  The hope is that, as you say, your first […]

I just wanted to post additional advice from Stella regarding mostly setting yourself up for applying to grad school:

I got my undergraduate degree at Stanford in Human Biology. You have the right attitude […]

I would also add that you should pay special attention to financial aid as an international student. A lot of schools have a “need-aware” policy as opposed to a “need-blind” policy. We wrote about this policy in […]

I just wanted to add to Chris’ last point: “Students who are interested in business and who are studying at Stanford or Harvard usually major in liberal arts fields that have some relation to business. Economics […]