<p>Hey guys,
I only got a couple of responses in Transfer section so I'm going to post it here. I am a freshman at the University of Missouri at Columbia and I'm majoring Journalism, and that's pretty much the only thing the school has it going. So far, I'm planning a transfer with double major (Political Science and Economics). These are the schools I'm in the process of applying followed by intended major indicated in apps</p>
<p>Geogetown (SFS) - Int'l Political Economy
UPenn - Poli Sci
UMich- Ann Arbor - Econ then BBA Business
Northwestern - Economics</p>
<p>This was my first college semester and I just completed 16 hours of credit with 3.888 GPA
This semester I'm taking: Int'l Relations, Advanced French, Calc, Chem II and Money and Banking (Econ Honors)
My Stats:
Graduated Top 5% of Very competitive public (sent mutiple kids to Harvard, Northwestern HPME, Stanford, UPenn, etc)
SAT I: 630V 780M 1410Composite
SAT II: 760, 730, 730
Sports: High School Ice Hockey, TaeKwonDo (3rd deg. black belt in Mar.) Assistant Instructor
Lots of clubs, including Debate(Nat'l and State Q Runner-Up, 1st and 2nd in Invitationals), Model UN (Chair), Peer Teaching, Junior Achievement (VP), Int'l Club (VP), Church Youth Group (Youth leader and praise team) + a lot more. I listed about 20 clubs plus 6 or 7 honors societies in my resume.
Lots of Community Service: About 500 hours at nurising homes, Deaf institute, church, also going on Mission Trip to Trinidad this summer and planning one for Hurricane Katrina sites soon</p>
<p>I can get pretty good recs and essays and I know some of these are reaches but I just want to know if I can be competitive. Thanks in advance for your advice. Please feel free to suggest match schools for me that I could be a good candidate for that has a good program for my majors and I would like to add that I'm a future prospect for Law or Business school.</p>