I’m a sophmore in community college with 37 credits under my belt. After a couple summer classes and the fall my GPA should be a 3.6. My courses are great in economics and I’m taking higher maths this summer and in the fall (which I do pretty well at typically)
My extra carriculars: After my senior year of high school I took an intership with Southwestern Advantage. I left home from Nashville to Dallas, TX to sell educational books door-to-door over 70 hours a week. I did pretty well. I then took a part-time job with a fortune 500 company (Simon Property Group) working in mall offices and operations. After that I took another part time sales job while in school with a start-up staffing company. (Owner is a Penn grad) and one of my reccommendation letters. Now I’m working with a software company that designs 3d printers, face scanners, and 3d scanners. I work with software engineers to hardware engineers for a great company with only 25 employees. I wanted to add my EC’s because I know my GPA is average, and my EC’s are what would get me in. What tier of schools should I apply for? Going to apply to transfer to NYU, Michigan, Virginia, Berkeley, etc. My dream school is Cornell. Do my EC’s give me a chance at ivy league schools? I know the chances are slim, but arr they 0? Cornell, Vanderbilt, Chicago, Brown? Thanks for the imput! Trying to get some feedback.
If financial aid is a concern, I would cross out Brown as their transfer process is need aware. I am a CC accepted transfer to the ILR. I would say read into each college website and see how you would fit in. They look far beyond just GPA. It is a holistic process and rec letters, essays, gpa, blah blah blah is all taken into the big picture. If you have taken advanced math and econ I figure you’re either a political science, govt, business or something in that spectrum right? You need to make sure you can compel the committee to grant you admission based on your story. It is tough, Cornell is an Ivy and a top 15 school in the U.S and the world. Despite what people say, you can truly benefit from a Cornell education and make it far if you apply yourself. If you have any more questions feel free to message me.