#Transfer Help

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jade flower
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Location/Region:
Want a suburban or college-town campus. Open to out-of-state, far from home is fine.
Major:

Business Administration (interested in management, marketing, or consumer experience). Minor undecided.

GPA/Test Scores:
College: 4.0 projected fall freshman year (spring TBD) — 28 credits completed

Dual Enrollment: 3 additional credits (B+) from Fairleigh Dickinson University
High School: 3.52 weighted, test-optional

Curriculum:
Strong business core with marketing, strategy, consumer behavior, leadership. Clubs, networking, internship opportunities.

Size:
Medium to large university, strong D1 sports, lively campus culture. Prefer some small classes mixed in.

Costs:
Ideally $30k–$55k per year total cost. Merit aid is a major factor — some schools depend on financial aid to be realistic.

Schools I'm Considering:
Ohio State (Fisher), Auburn (Harbert), Delaware (Lerner), Alabama (Culverhouse), Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim), Tulane (Freeman), Texas (McCombs), UVA (McIntire), Michigan (Ross)

Additional About Me:
• I am an NCAA lacrosse athlete (recruited on scholarship)
• I have strong internship experience, leadership roles, and political recommendation letters
• I am looking for a fun campus with sports/frat culture (~7–8/10) and solid transfer support

Main Question:
Are schools like Michigan or Ohio State realistic for transfer with my background? What should be reaches vs targets? I also need more schools as I am removing some like the expensive privates.

high hornet
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Where are you transferring from? Why do you want to transfer?

jade flower
jade flower
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high hornet
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Indiana University

jade flower
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Gotcha

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Do you think some of these high level public universities are realistic?

limpid lagoon
# jade flower Location/Region: Want a suburban or college-town campus. Open to out-of-state, f...

I think Tulane is a great choice and fits what you're looking for, it's got a good football and sports scene along with being in New Orleans (lots of partying) and is a medium sized university. I think Ohio State and Texas would also be good matches, Ross and UVA might be more challenging but would also fit your criteria! I'd also add UNC to your list, KF is a pretty solid business school and there's tons of opportunities in the triangle for finance and consulting -- charlotte is also a huge hub for banking and finance, and many UNC / UNC Charlotte Business grads end up working for BoA

jade flower
jade flower
# limpid lagoon I think Tulane is a great choice and fits what you're looking for, it's got a go...

My plan might be to apply to the harder schools like UVA and michigan as an econ major and maybe if I get the chance switch over. Same with UNC.

Tulane would have been perfect but they deadass offer no aid and my parents are paying for me. We dont qualify for fasfa.

Overall do you think these publics are realsitic? I really locked in with the school im at and I want to get into a prestigous school. t30

limpid lagoon
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If you're already at a pretty prestigious school, with your GPA you have a solid chance of making it to many of those schools, but once again they are competitive and very prestigious so it's up in the air. I think you've got it, and as long as you give yourself other alternatives then hopefully it should work out :)

jade flower
limpid lagoon
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Ultimately it comes down to connections and networking, but just letting you know transfering into KF once you're at UNC may not be possible

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"Around 5–10% of students join the program as junior transfers from other institutions. The remaining students are admitted through the intra-university transfer process as current UNC students, typically beginning the business core in the spring of their second year."

jade flower
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Now my only worry now is the credits minimum

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I dont know how it works per university

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lIke some require 24 and some require 30. But the thing is some require 30 at the time of application vs some require it on a rolling basis meaning I can submit my in progress courses

untold glacier
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@jade flower i would recommend FSU as a more cost oriented option

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checks all your boxes with regards to sports/frat/college town culture

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out of state tuition is in the low 20s

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im in the college of business here (accounting) and have quite liked it overall, and we have both a management and marketing major

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new business building opens next semester yippie

jade flower
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Which sucks