<p>AEM is applied economics and mathematics</p>
<p>I think if you did go to a school like U Chicago with a lot of core requirements, you might have to take an extra quarter to graduate. If you've got the money and don't mind the extra time, it would be OK. Your GPA is currently on the low side for Chicago, though.</p>
<p>I'd actually prefer another year in school to really fix up my GPA and also to get a chance to get top internships i'd be able to get from a place like uchicago that i wouldnt liekly get from pitt.</p>
<p>What Ibank may you be interning with b/c I go to the University of Pgh and have considered transferring a number of times as well. I gotta be honest though, I think you bringing your GPA to a 3.8 might be stretching it from a 3.5. I had a 3.74 after freshman year and (taking 15 credits per semester), have after getting a 4.0 in both semesters this year, am only at a 3.89.</p>
<p>AEM is applied economics and MANAGEMENT (not mathematics lol)</p>
<p>dilo, it's a small boutique bank and no word yet. I know I can bring my GPA up that much because I only took 14 creds per semester and will have 17 this semester, and likely 19, so it's quite feasible. Where are you thinking of transferring to?</p>
<p>i just wanna say that Yury's GPA is actually not that bad.. this year I was accepted to Brown and waitlisted at Stanford with a 3.5 something GPA-(almost 3.6) and only a 28 on the ACT- I had no SAT subject tests at all... anything is possible- I personally count myself lucky and am glad that they saw something valuable in me-my reasons for transfer were very personal but I wouldnt say that they were very unique.. just the normal stuff, perhaps if Yury was to raise his GPA it would help but I guess we can never know for sure with the way the admissions process is going these days..remember you'll never know till you try! good luck Yury</p>
<p>lol125, thats what I meant in my comment. A 3.7 gpa is very good by anyone's standards, there is absolutely no reason not to be proud of that. The only thing I am saying is when you are applying to the Top colleges such as brown or dartmouth overqualified canidates get rejected because there are not many spots to fill, I think a 3.7 gpa will make yuri competitive though but it is definetly a matter of luck with many schools</p>
<p>if you really want UMich, you can do this
attend their College of Literature, sciences, and Arts for a year, and then apply for Ross as an internal transfer.
of course, most of your credits at U of Pittsburg won't transfer, so you'll have to take the classes again at UMich LSA....but the acceptance rate for internal transfer is ~50%,it's just that you'll graduate a year later than you would normally do</p>
<p>^thanks for the info but that actually makes umich the 1st school to cross off my list. I am in no way going to lose credits and then spend the $ for another 3 years. </p>
<p>But...I did speak with a harvard advisor and said that I really boosted my chances by taking very eclectic classes incluidng a 1000 level history course, and I was a freshman mind you (got a B+, 89% a crap!) but nonetheless since this is my one and only shot to transfer after my sophyear I'm definitely applying to all these schools. Now I just need help with my essay lol</p>
<p>yuri- </p>
<p>i basically considered every place under the sun at one point or another....when i got down to it, georgetown, nyu, and unc were my favorites, however, and say what you want, i felt that i'd be just as well off being a "big fish in a small pond"...ive had 3 solid internships and i'm going into my junior year...though i definitely wonder what things i could have accomplished had i transferred, it's not worth thinking about...also, if you have interests in investment banking, Pitt has an Investment Banking Club...I was in it last year, and it was probably the best $40 i've spent thus far -- though the main guy is gone (he begins at Jefferies in July), there are 3 current members holding down ibanking internships this summer, so the club no doubt will continue to prosper</p>
<p>^hey I actually found out about it like January. So I applied, but they said it was too late for me to gain anything from it, but I'm definitely going to apply this upcoming year. </p>
<p>But let's both be honest, the "Career" center, or lack there of at Pitt, well, sucks... at least in every single one of my experiences. </p>
<p>And it's just not the prestige, I don't like it here anymore. Same old city, boring frat-drinking party crap. I want something else, a place where I can sit down for coffee on a weekend and talk philosophy and whatnot, and not with these pseudo-intellectual BS honors college kids, but with people genuinely interested. </p>
<p>You can't imagine how many times I heard one stupid girl in my macro honors course say "per se" it drove me crazy. If NYU is for the cocky ivy rejects, then Pitt honors is for the cocky Ivy and NYU rejects, one kid actually was talking about transferring to NYU.</p>
<p>I agree, the career center is basically non-existant for an underclassman. Generally, all I've been told is to look on CBA Simon and Panther Tracs for internships, neither of which are incredibly helpful half the time. I'm hoping though, that the new Dean (Delaney?) will be able to change things up a bit. They said in 08' we are looking to have a trading floor in the Bus School, similar to what Villanova and other schools have. I must admit though, beyond the lacking career services, I feel that the business school is pretty strong. No, I wouldn't dare compare it to an Ivy league school or say it's on par with Michigan, but it's certainly not bad either, and I think, slightly underrated, especially given it's recent ranking in Businessweek. </p>
<p>From my experience though, being in the city adds quite a bit to the job search. I was able to get a pretty nice internship during the school year mainly because of the close proximity to downtown Pittsburgh. </p>
<p>In response to the social aspect, I also can empathize with you here. I am from right outside of the city, and it has become old to me over the past two years. In regards to the people, yea, I get tired of the absolute deadbeats, but I think you will find people like that anywhere you go. My friend transferred from Pitt to Notre Dame last year. I went to visit him shortly after finals and found, oddly enough, that everyone had assimilated into the same sorts of groups I found at Pitt (ex. partiers, workaholics, etc). Now, I was only there for four days, so I can't say with complete confidence that I had seen everything there was to see in people at ND, but just a thought.</p>
<p>Either way good luck with transferring.</p>
<p>^thanks man. And it's not like I'm trying to make my experience horrible on purpose. But when they keep screwing me over (including with their horrible care of my transfer app) I started getting hesitant and lost a lot of trust for the place that's supposed to be my "stepping stone" into the real world</p>