Chance Me For Emory Transfer (and a few other T-20's) from Georgia State

Demographics

Freshman at Georgia State University (Public 4 Year) Apart of the Honors Program

Asian-American Male

Stats/Courseload:

HS GPA: 91.34 Weighted 88.24 UW

College GPA: 4.05 (GPA can go up to a 4.3 for A+)

SAT: 1510 Super Score (800 Math, 710 English)

AP’s taken in HS: English Language and Composition (5), Physics 1 (3), Statistics (4), US History (4), Microeconomics (4), Macroeconomics (5), Comp Sci (1) (lol I drew pictures on the exam because I wanted to take the class again anyways and my school pays for our exams), AP Calc AB (4), AP Psych (didn’t take the exam)

College Courses and Grades Received: Seminar (S), Calc II (4.3), (honors classes are pretty similar to our regular classes so I don’t think the HON prefix holds any weight but) Hon AM Gov (4.3), French I (4.0), Hon Chem I (3.7), English 1102 (taken as a dual enrollment class my senior year) (4.0). Second-semester grades really aren’t factored (at least to my knowledge) but here are the classes I’m taking next semester and my “projected” grades. French II (4.0), Hon Global Economics (4.3), Accounting I (4.0 or 4.3 depending on how hard accounting is), Calc Based Physics I (At least a 3.7), Micro econ (4.3).

High School Extracurriculars:

A community Service organization that aimed to help children with disabilities, with an emphasis on eradicating the stigma surrounding disabilities and bridging the gap between society and children with disabilities. (President)

Model UN Delegate, Received 2 best delegate awards, 1 distinguished, and 1 best large delegation award. (Varsity)

Apart of a big organization in the state of Georgia that holds multiple summer camps and events (one of them at Goizueta itself actually) that emphasized leadership skills to the next generation of leaders, founded a chapter for the organization at my school as well as worked as a youth ambassador for the program, organizing and brainstorming event plans. (Founder/Youth Ambassador)

On the board of directors for a community service group that raised awareness for children in India who were denied basic rights and amenities through fundraising and various events

Became an eBay seller, selling various streetwear items (shoes, clothes, etc.) achieving the title of Top-Ranked Seller and generating thousands in revenue. This also resulted in me selling locally and creating a small business through streetwear.

Various internships: A marketing internship the summer before I began college that had a heavy emphasis on SEO and social media marketing. Helped contribute to a 35% increase in overall traffic, and did tasks such as compiling a list of 80k+ possible keywords to target consumers nationwide. I was also an operations intern for an AC financing company, managing customer relations and highly sensitive data for 400+ accounts. Also contributing to a 60% overall increase in efficiency for our consumer applications

College Extracurriculars:

Board of directors for our Indian Cultural Exchange, helping to brainstorm and manage multiple events and fundraising activities to 1) Increase South Asian representation in our community and 2) fundraise for various charity organizations in India. Outreach Chair

Working with the founder of the sales club (a professor) to increase the presence of the club on campus through various marketing strategies (increasing traffic to our website through SEO, creation of multiple different social media channels, brand creation through logo design). I got this through a program offered by the Honors college and it’s essentially like a paid internship

Working with an esteemed professor at Emory’s Goizueta business school, researching soft powers of nations, and various marketing tactics one of those being the impact of influencer marketing on our current economy.

Awards:

Founders scholarship at my school

Honors program

Black Belt in TKD

Multiple awards for MUN

AP Scholar with Honor

Honor Roll for 3 years in High School (10th,11th, and 12th grade)

Presidents List for GSU

LORs

No point in talking about this, my rec letters are going to come from the Sales Club professor I’m working with (professional), the Emory professor I am working with (professional), and the two academic recommendations are going to come from my Gov teacher who I was fairly close with and my French teacher who will have had me for both semesters (and possibly more depending on how this next semester plays out). I will also be asking my two close teachers from High school to resubmit their LOR from last year.

Extra Info:

Legacy: Emory University via my brother and sister in law

My brother and sister in law also both currently work at Emory Med

Schools I’m Applying To As A Transfer:

UPenn, Harvard, Northwestern, University of Southern California, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, Vandy, and Emory. I recognize that I probably have no chance at Penn Harvard or Duke, so Emory and USC are the two schools I’m most concerned about with me essentially molding my application for all things Emory.

I know my High School GPA wasn’t the best, especially since it wasn’t able to get me into my state school (UGA where I was waitlisted), but I’m hoping this semester’s academic performance is able to make up for it. I understand that the school I’m currently at may not be top tier, but I really am hoping it is enough. Also if anybody has any details on the Trojan Transfer Plan I would love to see if I am eligible for that.

Thanks for the help!

Would really appreciate some help

Hey dude! I don’t really have any advice to give you since I’ll be in your shoes next year, but your accomplishments are truly impressive and I believe that you have a great chance at being accepted into any of those schools – your eBay business stands out the most!

I live in Atlanta as well and I go to a women’s college in the area and I’m looking to transfer to Emory next year. Best wishes to you and street wear is the best!

Thanks so much! Best of luck to you as well!

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Your test scores and college grades are obviously very good. Those won’t be much of an issue. I think some of the most important aspects of transfer admissions (after they deem you’re qualified academically) are fit/reason for transferring and essays.

Penn, Harvard, Duke, and NW are high reaches for pretty much any applicant. Without serious hooks, chances are slim even for people with 1500+ SATs coming from T30s. Vandy and Emory are slightly more accessible IMO. Vandy has a fairly high transfer acceptance rate, especially compared to their first-year acceptance rate. I’d say USC and Emory are your best chances. UNC can be very picky about OOS applicants.

You also need to realize that these schools are all going to be incredibly expensive unless you’re very low income. I’d advise you to apply to UGA and possibly even Tech. If you want to go into business, UGA and Tech are going to be much better for jobs/internships than GA State. Out of GA schools, I’d argue that Emory and Tech students will get the best job opportunities in business followed closely by UGA. Every other GA school is pretty far behind IMHO.

It’s hard for me to give recommendations beyond that without knowing what you want to study / what career you want to go into.

Cost/Budget should be an important factor. You also need to convey why you want to attend each school in your essays. Just because the school is “better” doesn’t mean that’s a qualified reason. If you don’t have real reasons for wanting to attend a particular school, you need to cross it off the list.