<p>Hey, I just completed my freshman year at Baruch College-CUNY. I'm going into my sophomore year and am looking to transfer to a more prestigious business school in Spring 2014/Fall 2014. What are my chances of getting into NYU (Stern), Cornell (Dyson), University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), Boston University, Boston College (Carroll), Emory (Goizueta), University of California (Berkley), Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, or any other prestigious business schools. </p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.87
Credits completed in my freshman year: 36
Major: Finance</p>
<p>It depends on the subjects you took, rigor is very important to these schools. Also your standardized test scores & ECs. </p>
<p>So, for example, if you completed Calculus and took a calculus based statistics course, then your chances will be better. Also, possibly a science (Physics or Chemistry) for techy schools, such as Cornell, CMU and MIT. In addition, your SAT / Subject Test scores need to be within range of the freshman class & you should have decent ECs. They just will not look at your high school record as closely.</p>
<p>Thank you all for the speedy responses. Perazziman, your tips are very helpful. NathanG, I took 15 credits in the fall, 3 in the winter, and 18 in the spring. William95, Biology is strongly recommended for AEM at Cornell, thought not required. Thanks again!</p>
<p>In my honest opinion, I’m not sure if a 3.87 would be very competitive at the top tier schools such as Stern, Goizueta, Wharton, and Dyson. I know that especially for those three schools, you don’t get accepted into the university as a whole but as individual colleges. This means that many of the students who got accepted into those schools are probably considering internal transfers (such as UPenn CAS kids internally transferring to Wharton) because they want to get into the business schools or because they are considering a double major in business and science/arts/etc. I know that for a fact Wharton would be extremely difficult because they mostly take sophomore transfers and even kids at UPenn have a difficult time getting into Wharton. So as a junior year transfer and being from another school, it would be even more difficult. </p>
<p>But like I said, difficult. Not impossible. I think it is still possible, but you really need to pull something awesome off.</p>
<p>Also, for schools like UC Berkeley (I’m from California) really check those requirements. UCs are really weird because they want you to take their “core classes” before you transfer (meaning if you are a business major, you still need to take an x number of credits in not just things like English and math, but courses like history and social sciences).</p>
<p>In my honest to God opinion, however, I truly believe that students (generally. there are exceptions!) need above a 3.7 GPA and after that it’s mostly about your personal qualities, extra curriculars, and recommendations. </p>
<p>Those are just my two cents. Take it with a grain of salt. Good luck!</p>