Zhao Xu

Ok so, unfortunately, your college GPA is the most important factor in your transfer application.

If you get a 4.0 your whole sophomore year, your average should be around 3.5-6 (assuming you take the same […]

I agree with Stella (thanks Stella!).

As Stella mentioned to me separately, the lack of research opportunities isn’t a death sentence and could actually be a selling point if you can turn around and say […]

Hi @jclim, thanks for contacting us! Here’s how GPA works for transfer students:
You enter college 1 as a freshman, take classes, and you end up with a GPA for college 1.
You transfer to college 2, and start fresh […]

Everyone knows that the University of Chicago is one of the few places where grade inflation is relatively kept in check. The admissions committees at all the top schools keep close track of each other so Duke […]

Those are some excellent points @roopan!

Recommendations: Professors get asked for letters all the time, they know the drill. Just explain briefly why you want to transfer, but sandwich whatever issues you have with the school in between praise and […]

Ok, thanks for sharing all that! I’m really surprised by the competitiveness at the early level at Duke.
I think your ECs and reasons for transferring are excellent. I would be concerned about your GPA and your […]

Thanks for sharing Dillon!
If you want to share some of your stats I’d be happy to give some advice. The main things that would be useful would be your college GPA, your SATs, and your extracurriculars in college. […]

That’s pretty good advice, I like the idea of looking at the avg. law schools students from each school go to.

Hi Lily!
First, thanks so much for sharing your story, we really appreciate you writing everything out here, and hopefully the act of writing things out helped you clarify your own thoughts.
Here’s my opinion on […]

Just remembered, there’s also the parent that wrote us here after reading The Transfer Book: http://thetransferbook.com/about/reviews/
GPA was 3.2 senior year of high school (2.6 as a freshman), with very low SATS […]

We’re working on putting together a table of data on the top LACs. I’ll post here to update once we get all the data on the site.
As a matter of fact, we’re trying to do a comprehensive set of transfer-specific […]

Well, I happen to know you checked out the book already so you know this, but for anyone out there who’s listening, I am one of these stories. I got plenty of Bs and a couple of Cs in high school, and I […]