Reply to Worth gaming the system?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Worth gaming the system?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A girl in my DC’s class did this. She literally told her that she will apply for an undersubscribed major and then transfer to the most competitive major once admitted. She took the same classes as my DD and had similar grades. They both were in AP calc A/B in senior year. The girl also got help with EC’s (book publishing etc) from her parents. Ended up at HYP and then successfully transferred to the most prestigious department.. so yes u can game the system.. people do it all the time..[/quote]

This is fake. One does not transfer departments after admission because one is not admitted to a concentration or department at these places. 
If that student posed as interested in an easier-major and is doing well not just scraping by (ie 3.8+) in Physics or Math or Chem there, then they had the chops for it, period. Such as 5 in AP calc and other stem courses and likely 750+ on math. Sure they may have had a boost in admissions with the publication but they would not be successful in a quantitative major there without the baseline ability.

Ivies often do let in (hooked) applicants with less than the baseline needed for success in the most rigorous majors and sometimes these students try them and struggle to be at or above the means. Most times the hooked applicant without the academic skills of the average ivy student selects for an easier major/concentration, well aware that they are not on the same level. That is ok. Below average at an ivy is 3.5-3.6 and almost all get jobs. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics