Dr. Karlyn Koh, the faculty advisor of LaGuardia’s Honors Student Advisory Committee, shared the following transfer opportunities to the elite 4-year institutions. The Japanese Option students interested in this opportunity (see the eligibilities below) should contact Tomonori Nagano at tnagano@lagcc.cuny.edu.
Transfer Scholars Network (TSN) Pilot (https://transferscholars.org)
LaGuardia has been chosen as one of 9 community colleges to participate in a national pilot convened by the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program. Community college students in this network are connected directly with admissions officers from the 4-year institutional partners below:
- Amherst College (MA): https://www.amherst.edu/admission/apply/transfer
- Bowdoin College (ME): https://www.bowdoin.edu/admissions/apply/transfers/index.html
- Cornell University (NY): https://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/transfer-applicants
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA): https://mitadmissions.org/apply/transfer/transfer-eligibility/
- Mount Holyoke College (MA): https://www.mtholyoke.edu/admission/transfer
- Pomona College (CA): https://www.pomona.edu/admissions/apply/transfer-applicants
- Princeton University (NJ): https://admission.princeton.edu/how-apply/transfer-students
- Smith College (MA): https://www.smith.edu/admission-aid/how-apply/transfer
- Spelman College (GA): https://www.spelman.edu/admissions/transfer-applicant
- Swarthmore College (PA): https://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-aid/apply-a-transfer-student
- Williams College (MA): https://www.williams.edu/admission-aid/apply/transfer/
- Yale University (CT): https://admissions.yale.edu/transfer
Your Recommendations
Students join this pilot only by being nominated. Should you wish to recommend students for this pilot, please simply send me their names and email addresses, and I will contact them with information.
General eligibility requirements are:
- Min. GPA of 3.5
- 15-30 completed credits (a little over 30 is ok)
- Intend to begin at a 4-year institution in Fall 2022
- Adjusted gross income not more than $95,000
- No previous 4-year college/university attendance
- Other areas of success in addition to sound academic record (e.g. campus leadership, community volunteering, research presentation at a conference etc.)
