<p>Just finished my freshman year at the University of Pittsburgh. I'm in the undergrad business school and take honors courses.</p>
<p>I have a 3.5 GPA, but I'm looking at a cumulative approx 3.7 or 3.8 after my sophomore year.
Recs: not sure yet, but may ask my econ prof who knows me by first name, a CEO who will give me an excellent rec. and I may be interning at an investment bank this summer and might ask for a rec.
EC's: the investment banking, 100's of hours of tutoring ad mentoring, working as an executive for a clothing company, honors fraternity, national collegiate scholar.
awards: deans list and other useless crap.</p>
<p>Major: finance (and possibly dual in economics)
minor: may be economics or possibly philsophy</p>
<p>Chances at:
Wharton
Umich (business)
Berkely (haas)
Harvard
Stanford
Stern
Claremont Mkenna
Uchicago
CMU (tepper)
Columbia
Yale
Williams
Pomona</p>
<p>I won't apply to all of these, just those people say I have a shot at, and those I REALLY want to go to. (I know it's semi-dumb applying to a place I dont like). Not that I dont like it, but some of these I dont know much about.</p>
<p>Quite honestly, every one of the colleges you've chosen, is a crapshoot for anyone that doesn't donate millions every year. While I'd love to give a normal, "reach, match, ect" for each of those schools, most of them take single digit transfers every year. </p>
<p>I'd say you have a fair chance, the GPA is really killing your competitiveness, and let's say you did get it up to a 3.8 (ideally), I'd say your chances are as good as anyone that's seriously applying. But know that transfer rates are really low anyway, and there's a chance you might get rejected at all of them.</p>
<p>I appreciate the responses but the chances will be better than my chance at upenn was this year. my advisor didnt send my transcript, didnt send the reply they requested from her about me, the dean didnt send his deans list 9only asked to send it after i already got my rejection letter). so yeah, any chance will be better than this year haha. Plus the classes I took 1st year were basically electives and this year will be mostly pre-reqs and finance.</p>
<p>Oh and I forgot to add that I'm an "international" student (canadian citizen)</p>
<p>Yury, I'll talk you about what I know and that's what it is like applying to Wharton for junior standing. Let's start off with a quote from their Transfer Admissions Info page:</p>
<p>Students are encouraged to transfer after their freshman year because we have very few spaces available for entering juniors.</p>
<p>If a school as selective is Wharton is telling you they are even more selective if you're applying as a sophomore, believe them. I had amazing extracurricular/work experience, good recs, great essays, a 3.9 GPA with a 4.0 midterm grade report, and a very good reason for transferring to Wharton (no management major at GW). I even fulfilled their Business Statistics w/ calc prerequisite courses by taking twice the amount of coursework (a stat with business applications that didnt have calculus prerequisite and a stat course with a mathematical prerequisite, the most annoying 12 credits I've ever taken). Basically, I had as good a shot as any other applicant. I don't want you to go down the same path as I did and waste your time and money taking classes and prerequisites for Wharton as a junior transfer that wont count for you at any other transfer schools you apply to all for the very small chance they'll accept you. (That's what happened to me when I was accepted to Stern). </p>
<p>As for the other schools, I do know that Columbia looks down on students in preprofessional majors and outright says they wont accept any of those credits. </p>
<p>For Stern, if you bring that GPA to a 3.8 you will have a very good chance. </p>
<p>For UMich, you basically missed the deadline because Ross is a 3yr business program (that happened to me too)</p>
<p>For the rest, I'd say best of luck with Claremont McKenna, UC, Williams, and Pomona, and your application is most likely a donation to Stanford and Harvard, as well as Berkeley if you're out of state.</p>
<p>wow, thanks for all that info. I kind of messed up this year so I didnt feel prepared to apply to this schools (only did apply to penn, and you can see how that ended with my lovely admin here at pitt).</p>
<p>I guess i'll scratch stanford, harvard and UCB off the list haha.</p>
<p>So I guess I'll take all courses that will definitely transfer then... my issues with stern though are...they have grade deflation so they're tougher than all the other schools, plus they cost the most and ranked the worst. But thank you, sincerely.</p>
<p>The problem with the LACs you've mentioned are the often single-digit transfer acceptances. Definitely a crap-shoot. For instance, Pomona accepted 14 of 178 transfer applications in 2006 to fill 8 spots, for an acceptance rate of 7.9%.</p>
<p>UChicago is more transfer-friendly than most of the schools on your list. Their transfer acceptance rate is similar to their freshman acceptance rate. That said, I think it would be tough to be a junior transfer there, with only two years to fulfill the core requirements. (Though I've heard of someone who's doing it.)</p>
<p>Dartmouth? That is just as much of a crap shoot. If you werent applying to the UMich business program it would be a lot easier lol. The schools that you listed, there are students who have 4.0 gpa's and are still worried about being accepted. You might get lucky, you might not. Have a backup plan.</p>