Transfer - Freshman and currently attend a small top 50

So I'm thinking of transferring schools. I'm a freshman and currently attend a small top-50 LAC in upstate New York and I want to go to a large school. I'm considering a few... names don't matter but I'm quite confident that I'll get into most of them. Anyway I was wondering how many schools I should apply to. Would it be crazy to apply to more than 2 as a transfer? Obviously I'm going to repeat senior year and apply to 9 schools. I would be applying for Spring 2012. Hopefully someone has transfer experience and can offer some advice.

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Well, I think the point of transferring may be that you're supposed to identify a school you feel you fit better at rather than just blast out a bunch because you want anywhere except where you are.

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turtlesSo I'm thinking of transferring schools. I'm a freshman and currently attend a small top-50 LAC in upstate New York and I want to go to a large school. I'm considering a few... names don't matter but I'm quite confident that I'll get into most of them. Anyway I was wondering how many schools I should apply to. Would it be crazy to apply to more than 2 as a transfer? Obviously I'm going to repeat senior year and apply to 9 schools. I would be applying for Spring 2012. Hopefully someone has transfer experience and can offer some advice.
  1. Come on man, small top-50 LAC in upstate New York? You've posted this at least 50 times. No one cares whether you're from Colgate/Hamilton/Skidmore/wherever... it's all the same. One of my future roommates transferred from a community college in NY and got into Cornell/Brown. Unless you're applying to transfer to Harvard and Stanford it doesn't fucking matter (in which case your "top-50 LAC" is worthless).

  2. You'll need that confidence.

  3. No one cares. Apply to the schools you want to attend. Given the fact that you attend a top-50 LAC in upstate New York, I assume there is a 100% chance that the application fees won't be a problem for your parents. None of the schools will know that you applied to the others. If you want to waste your time on 9 applications then go for it.

  4. Doing an extra year isn't a big deal. Some kids even do a gap year.

 

My brother applied to 7 schools when he was going through the transfer process. It is a bitch (I transferred too so I can tell you that) but worth it to keep your options open.

Just do it if you want to do it, no one is going to care if you apply multiple places.

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He doesn't mean an extra year, he means he'll be emulating the college application process by submitting a whole raft of applications across the spectrum.

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Yea missed that part I only saw the repeat senior year part.

But again, 9 apps is overkill. I can't imagine at this point there are 9 schools you'd absolutely want to go to

 

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