Will having transferred school hurt my chances of admission?

[SliceNDice]

I transferred twice during undergrad. Started at a Lewis and Clark college, a small liberal arts school in Portland, then went to a Univeristy of Oregon which was out of state, and then travelled for a bit before transferring to UC Santa Barbara. Will this hurt me in my odds is admission? I had pretty decent grades the whole way through, with the lowest being my freshman year with a 3.53. My GPA for the final two years at the UC was 3.81 and my overall GPA with all the schools combined was around 3.73 or something like that.

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[aalamruad]

Should be fine. You have decent reasons for transferring that you can explain well?

 

[SliceNDice]

First transfer being a ******* and not knowing what I wanted. Second transfer because I realized I had really made some dumb decisions, and needed to take some time off to try to get my **** together. Travelled in India for 6 months and got accepted to UCSB which was way closer to home, cheaper, has a major I was much more interested in, had my brother and some of my best friends going there.

 

[aalamruad]

First transfer being a ******* and not knowing what I wanted. Second transfer because I realized I had really made some dumb decisions, and needed to take some time off to try to get my **** together. Travelled in India for 6 months and got accepted to UCSB which was way closer to home, cheaper, has a major I was much more interested in, had my brother and some of my best friends going there.

If I were you I'd leave the "dumb decisions" parts out of the story if you discuss your transfers during interviews, but you should be just fine