International Engineering Student Looking to Transfer

Hey folks, posting on behalf of a friend I'm helping out. He's an international student from the Middle East who went through the A-level system at a British international school. He graduated at the top of his class with **3 A\*s and 2 As**, and scored a **1440 SAT**.

He applied to the Ivies along with a few safeties. He was waitlisted at **Princeton and Columbia**, and ultimately enrolled at **the University of Alabama** with roughly a **60% scholarship (just started)**.

He's currently studying **Electrical Engineering** and is considering transferring after his freshman year. His main targets are **MIT, Princeton, Columbia, and Northwestern**.

We're looking for advice from people who have gone through a similar transfer process, especially **international students transferring from a 4-year university into a top engineering program**.

Would also really appreciate recommendations for any **professional transfer admissions consultants/advisors** who are actually good at this kind of case. Not looking for someone to just edit essays, ideally someone who can help with the overall strategy: course selection, GPA, research/extracurriculars, school selection, and the transfer application.

Thanks!

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u/DragonflyForward4102 — 8 hours ago
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Privacy-minded AI users: what are y'all using?

Sup folks, thought I'd ask Signal community this question. I’ve been getting a lot more timid about using frontier models for anything remotely sensitive, especially with some of the recent legal stuff around AI chats, data access, and privilege.

The Snowden/PRISM era already showed how much governments can potentially access through private tech infrastructure, and laws like the CLOUD Act make me pretty uncomfortable about putting my whole inner life into a hosted AI service. The Heppner case also got me thinking about how AI conversations may not have anything close to the protections you’d expect from talking to a lawyer, therapist, doctor, etc.

So I’m curious what folks here are using and how they are thinking about it. 

I have seen Confer and Venice as options, the former I am a bit skeptical of, even though Moxie created it, due to the Meta partnership (https://confer.to/blog/2026/03/encrypted-meta/) and the latter seems to be a bit more tailored to the more imagination-oriented crowd ;). 

I’m not necessarily trying to go full tinfoil-hat/air-gapped homelab. Just looking for something genuinely useful where I can be a little more intentional about what data I’m handing over.

What are you all using?

u/DragonflyForward4102 — 11 hours ago
▲ 2 r/CollegeTransfer+1 crossposts

International Engineering Student Looking to Transfer

Hey folks, posting on behalf of a friend I'm helping out. He's an international student from the Middle East who went through the A-level system at a British international school. He graduated at the top of his class with 3 A*s and 2 As, and scored a 1440 SAT.

He applied to the Ivies along with a few safeties. He was waitlisted at Princeton and Columbia, and ultimately enrolled at the University of Alabama with roughly a 60% scholarship (just started).

He's currently studying Electrical Engineering and is considering transferring after his freshman year. His main targets are MIT, Princeton, Columbia, and Northwestern.

We're looking for advice from people who have gone through a similar transfer process, especially international students transferring from a 4-year university into a top engineering program.

Would also really appreciate recommendations for any professional transfer admissions consultants/advisors who are actually good at this kind of case. Not looking for someone to just edit essays, ideally someone who can help with the overall strategy: course selection, GPA, research/extracurriculars, school selection, and the transfer application.

Thanks!

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u/DragonflyForward4102 — 16 hours ago

Memory???

What are folks thoughts on a proper memory setup to connect sources like obsidian, slack, email, GitHub, etc…?

What are folks doing to set up a global memory for agents and have each agent also house its own memory system for more specialized agents. What are the best tools? Any tutorials?

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u/DragonflyForward4102 — 2 months ago