<p>hi, can someone give me a list of the top 5-10 schools in undergraduate economics?</p>
<p>how difficult would it be for someone with a ~2300 SAT/35 ACT and a 4.0 college GPA to transfer to one of these schools?</p>
<p>University of Chicago</p>
<p>Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, MIT…</p>
<p>Transfer would be difficult to near impossible for those.</p>
<p>Berkeley has a top econ department and is probably most transfer friendly.</p>
<p>4.0 college GPA at what college?</p>
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<p>Not near impossible in the case of Princeton. Make that impossible:</p>
<p>Is it possible to transfer to Princeton from another college or university?
No. At this time, Princeton is not able to offer transfer admission. Any student who has graduated from secondary school and enrolled as a full-time degree candidate at another college or university is considered a transfer applicant and isn’t eligible for undergraduate admission.</p>
<p>I would add Northwestern to the list.</p>
<p>I think Alexandre has a general ranking/guide.</p>
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<p>Thank you for the correction, xiggi.</p>
<p>i am a high school senior, so the school i would be transferring from would either be a tier 1 state school, although it is not very good and isn’t particularly strong in anything, or university of michigan if i am taken off the waitlist, which is pretty unlikely. michigan, i understand, is good in economics and is ranked very highly, but ultimately i would like to apply to ivy league schools as a transfer student, since they offer the most opportunities. the reason i took the ACT/SAT so late into my senior year was to score high so i would have a high chance of being accepted as a transfer
i am fairly certain i would get a 4.0 GPA because the university i am most likely going to is not very difficult and i have strong study/work habits</p>
<p>Actually, the UoC used to have one of the highest transfer admissions percentages of the top schools. I haven’t looked at the figures recently, however.</p>
<p>top 5: harvard, Chicago, Princeton, MIT, stanford
next 5: ucb, Penn, northwestern, columbia, yale</p>
<p>this list ignores LACs though, some of which have very strong undergrad programs:</p>
<p>here’s an official opinion: [Top</a> Economics Programs: List of Top U.S. Schools](<a href=“http://education-portal.com/articles/Top_Economics_Programs_List_of_Top_US_Schools.html]Top”>Top Economics Programs: List of Top U.S. Schools)</p>
<p>schools like brown, duke and dartmouth might not have incredible Econ departments but they still have strong undergrad programs. You definitely do not need a top graduate program to have a top undergrad program. I’d say the better the kids in your class are the more likely you are to get a rigorous Econ education.</p>
<p>Penn has the highest transfer rate out of the Ivy’s. (Cornell CAS is very low <10%)</p>
<p>I think that you would be able to get into Penn as a transfer with your scores and presumed 4.0. Just get super involved at your college, write some killer essays, and try to get close with your professors for recommendations. Good luck!</p>
<p>NYU’s Economics is also very strong.</p>
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In recent years, Penn’s transfer acceptance rate has been around 15%. Of course, with its overall freshman acceptance rate falling to about 12% this year, it’s possible that the transfer acceptance rate will also fall.</p>
<p>Yes the transfer rate my drop, but it’s still higher than the other Ivys.</p>
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How did you get waitlisted at UMich if you have those scores and such great study habits? Were both your SAT and ACT scored after the waitlist? What was your HS GPA?</p>