1 Bad Semester for a junior transfer

Transfer Students
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<p>Ok.. well basically, I've done a pretty good job my entire life, then I messed up this past semester. </p>

<p>4.0 u/w HS Rank 1/400-500ish based on weighted grades
1380 SAT 720M/660V
SATII's suck (660 IC, 620 WR, 600 US His)
Pretty Good ECs
Quality of Essays probably varies by school
College Gpa: 3.684 (it's a 3.7 if you throw in an A I got in from a Calc Class I took while in high school)
Here is the problem
Ithaca College: Journalism Major/Econ Minor
Fr1: 3.81
Fr2: 3.74
So1: 3.46 </p>

<p>Do you think I'll get the benefit of the doubt based on past performance, or that they'll look at it as an inability to handle harder classes? I'm hoping for a 3.7+ at midterms this semester to prove that it was a fluke.</p>

<p>I'd be so much less stressed out about this process if I would've had at least 3.6 last semester (and I would've had a 3.62, but I suck and my prof dropped me 2.5% off my final grade for being late several times dropping me from an A- to B+ in the course)</p>

<p>Also, I'm switching my major from journalism to finance or economics (currently my minor).</p>

<p>Applying to: Penn (Wharton), UVA (McIntire), UNC (economics then after a semester I can apply to Kenan Flagler), Cornell (econ, not AEM), Michigan (Ross), Wake Forest, Northwestern, and NYU (Stern).</p>

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<p>Bump 2 the Future</p>

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<p>Wharton wants 3.7+. </p>

<p>Sophomore transfer to Wharton is impossible.
Why would you transfer to business schools if you only have an econ minor?</p>

<p>How are your ecs?</p>

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<p>Oh.. I'm going to be a junior transfer (sophomore right now).</p>

<p>Also, my two directions in high school were finance or journalism. I chose journalism because of my love of sports. I realized that I loved being an athlete in high school and I love being a fan, but I don't want to be a reporter. I've realized that now and want to pursure my other interest. (My courseload this semester reflects that (Financial Accounting, Calc II, Statistics, Public Communication, and a Comp Science course.) (I've already had Macro and Micro along with an economics course called Current Economics that focuses on a specific topic (my class focused on economics of a family).</p>

<p>I don't expect to get into Penn, but i have some things that lead me to believe I have at least a chance. And for the schools as a whole, I feel I do a pretty good job of explaining why I'm switching majors. The only thing I'm worried about is that I spend to much time talking about this. However, I feel that it is an important issue, since it's a relatively big switch.</p>

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<p>which school are u in right now???</p>

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<p>Ithaca College</p>

<p>Main EC's (about 10 hours per week)
Television Station
Radio Station
Republicans - Vice Chair of On Campus Affairs
YMCA Long Course National Qualifer and Participant</p>

<p>High School
Valedictorian
Tri-Athlete
Lead in a Play
High Scorer on stock market team (won our region - state game, so not a huge award)
School's high scorer on AMC test
Starter on County Champion Quiz Team
First person from my school to win the PA Business School Official's Scholarship</p>

<p>Alan, I PM'd you a more in depth version, since you seem to know a good bit about the process and plus you asked about my ec's, it was done pretty quickly, so this is much easier to get through.</p>

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<p>Wharton specializes too early, you would have gotten in as a freshman.</p>

<p>If you do somehow get into wharton, you will probablly finish in 5 years.. that is if you want to do finance.</p>

<p>You are marginally better with economics, but yet you are behind in your coursework.</p>

<p>Good luck with the application process, you will get into UMich, which is a very respectable program.</p>

<p>quid pro quo, now that I've told you my opinion about your transferring.. please evaluate me.</p>

<p>Target Schools: Harvard, Penn - Wharton , Yale, Chicago, NYU - Stern, Columbia. Maybe one more safety</p>

<p>HS Stats:
Freshman GPA: 2.3
Sophomore GPA: 2.5
Junior GPA: 3.68 (unweighted)
Senior GPA: 3.87 (unweighted) 4.44 (weighted)
SAT:
1380
SAT II's:
720 Average</p>

<p>College Stats:
Year: Freshman
College: Rutgers University
GPA: 4.0
Classes: (17 credits)
Calculus
Regression Methods (400 level applied statistics, hardest offered here)
International Economics (300 level class)
3Honors Classes</p>

<p>Current semester: (17 credits)
Econometrics + 2 Intermediate econ classes that uses multivar calc
Calculus
484 Stats
Stats programming class (380)</p>

<p>I can actually graduate with an econ/stats degree next year.</p>

<p>EC's:
Fed Challenge NY Federal Reserve Semi-Finalist (HS) (Presentator)
Fed Challenge NY Federal Reserve Champions (Presentator)
2nd place in national competition
Harvard University Economics Department (research assistant)
Rutgers University Economics Department (research assistant) -- Worked on a working paper to be published in the Journal of Finance
Financial, International and Monetary Policy Columnist for School Newspaper
Money Manager/Founder of Hedge/mutual fund
LIBOR (Investment Banking Club)
Publishing a research paper, possiblly in Barron's</p>

<p>Internships/Jobs
Dow Jones - Barron's
Bear Stearns - Investment Bank
I work 40 hours a week on Wall Street
Summer:
Probablly at a $1 Billion hedgefund</p>

<p>Recs: (All three should be great)
Undergraduate Director of the Economics deparment here.
Private Sector Economist who I have worked with.
HS Fed Challenge Advisor
Undergraduate director of the Economics department at Northwestern.. I guess I will get in there.</p>

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<p>Honestly, I think you'll definitely get into at least one of those, it's hard to say which one since they're all so selective. I think you are probably in at Chicago, although they are pretty quirky with admissions I've heard. I think you have a good shot at Wharton. Stern is based on space definietly (I've heard some different numbers) although, I think you are probably in. I think you have a very good chance at Harvard due to your research there. Yale and Columbia, I have no idea about. Great EC's by the way.</p>

<p>Also, on a bad not about Michigan, they have something where you have to get your accounting class approved and I don't have that. I considered my Michigan essays to be good too. Unfortunately without the approval of the accounting class, and the date for it to be approved actually passed prior to the deadline for the application, means I can't apply. Very disappointed about that.</p>

<p>I'm also applying to Wash U. among the other schools, and have considered Chicago. I'm planning on submitting midterm grades to schools (even to the schools that don't require them) as long as it's a 3.7+.</p>

<p>Also, I think I should be able to get into Cornell since it's 5-10 minutes away from Ithaca College and they know the quality of the journalism program. I think I'll probably get into UNC also. Not sure about the rest. With Wharton, I just need to take managerial accounting and another semester of statistics this summer to catch up on the pre-req's for transfers, so I could have them by the time I entered. I have two really good rec's for Wharton. However, I think underwhelming fall 04 semester killed any chance at that.</p>

<p>Also, my schedule strength is pretty weak since I took journalism courses, plus our pre-req system is strange. Although I do have 17 credits this semester, so that's pretty good.</p>

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<p>They won't reject you just based on one class.</p>

<p>Seriously, if you are qualified, as I think you are, woudl an adcom reject you because of one unapproved class? If worst comes to worst, you can just indicate to them that you will be taking summer classes.</p>

<p>Be careful about the deadlines by the way, most of your schools are due soon.</p>

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<p>I don't know. They are really weird about it. The thing is I'm taking the class right now. And my school's course hasn't been approved or marked unaccepted. Here's the e-mail they sent. Seems like a pretty generic, possibly automative response since they reuire you to enter a certain subject line for this... I've also called and can't say they've been very hepful or encouraging. </p>

<p>Dear Prospective Student-</p>

<p>Thank you for your interest in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.</p>

<p>The deadline to submit materials for review of accounting courses has passed. Without this information, your application will be considered incomplete and not considered for Fall 2005. It is necessary to have the accounting course approved for the application. Please refer to pages 4 and 5 of the application for details about accounting documentation deadlines. </p>

<p>We encourage and look forward to receiving your application for Fall 2006.</p>