As far as the programs I’m interested in go-- Finance or Economics pending school. Long term goals are probably in high finance in either Chicago, NYC, San Francisco, and Orange County.
Basic Rundown:
Current School: State School in the West (Not in CA)
College GPA: 3.9
ACT: 27 (In HS) – Plan on retaking it on Feb 6th… Expect a 30+ (Not exactly sure which colleges on my list accept college retakes because it is hard information to come by, so if you know I would greatly appreciate it).
Term application: Incoming Junior for the fall semester
Race: Caucasian
Extracurriculars:
(1): Residential Realtor for a large brokerage locally
(2): Two Private Wealth Management internships (8 weeks) & (10 weeks) + Another I may be starting during the Spring
(3): Extern Finance-group founder, organized and planed trips to local firms with fellow students. Went to Vanguard and Edward Jones.
(4): A bunch of random jobs (server, valet, ect) I’ve worked over a 3 year period.
(5): Misc. Volunteer work
(6): Investments Club & Financial Management Association member
(7): Founded a business, did 2.5k in sales in November.
Schools I am applying to:
(1) USC – They don’t require test scores for Junior level transfers.
(2) Northwestern
(3) Cornell
(4) Georgetown
(5) Columbia
(6) Yale – I am aware that the chances are astronomical.
Personally , I feel that Georgetown is a maybe. USC is a for sure YES. North western is probably a for sure NO ( they don’t like junior transfers and they really don’t like ones that are moving up prestige). Cornell is weird for transfer admissions but i am going with no. Lastly, columbia is probably a no. The really high end colleges have drastically low acceptance rates and they tend to accept students that just want to transition to a school of that level somewhere else. I think Duke would be a better one to try and i think Cornell is a possibility as long as it is not finance because they only accept community college kids for their business school. Georgetown is a good choice too just remember all these have really low acceptance rates !!!
(1) USC - high match
(2) Northwestern - low reach
(3) Cornell - reach
(4) Georgetown - reach
(5) Columbia - high reach
(6) Yale – very high reach, probably no considering the sheer chance. 2% admit rate. They will probably take someone in with a brilliant essay and your stats.
(1) USC - high match
(2) Northwestern - high reach
(3) Cornell - reach
(4) Georgetown - reach
(5) Columbia - very high reach
(6) Yale – very high reach
They have a program with community colleges in New York so 22 acceptance rate for transfer is Profoundly misleading !!! For state colleges and community colleges not from New York its more like single digits acceptance rates
The more i look at your application i don’t think georgetown is reach i think that is your sweet spot actually … you do have a 3.9 its pretty hard to say no to that … Just make sure all of your essays and junk are completed and i think you will be great !
@okon2122 So your going to tell me a 3.9 from a state school (not a community college) would be insuffeicnt? Because that isn’t true … Yes you need to have rigorous course work, EC’s, but to say it takes more than a 3.9 would be incorrect. okon2122 please don’t comment on these boards to scare an applicant he has more than enough to get into ONE of these schools. USC is easy for transfers … so if your not familiar do your hw then chime in please. Some are reaches and others are more realties. I just hate for you to tell the person on the board that he is under qualified for EVERY school is unnecessary and adds more anxiety to the process. Sorry i wasn’t trying to have such an abrasive tone but the applicant can surely get into one and others are a very realistic probability and some are probably out of reach.
Thanks,
@applicant1000 Lol. Alright… the odds of being admitted are contingent on a lot of other factors, which is why they ask you to submit material besides your college transcript. Columbia doesn’t just let their 6% acceptance transfer rate get filled by 3.9-ers who can’t write a decent essay and do not have anything notable about them. You need to be more than a studybot to transfer to these schools. Think what you want to think, but high GPA is not enough. He’s not underqualified persay, it’s just that high GPA in and of that factor itself is not enough to be admitted. They look at so many other things.
And I would hate for you to mislead an applicant and get their hopes up. Yes, 3.9 is awesome, and that will look good to the AdComs. But, they get 3.8 and 3.9-ers all of the time. It starts getting old and so they want something much more substantial, like starting your own charity, or doing community service, writing an interesting essay displaying critical thinking skills, etc. Like I said, they wouldn’t ask for other material and deem the material necessary to even be considered if they weren’t scrutinizing factors other than the transcript. Do your hw before you come into threads with a minimal and idealistic view of the process. USC has about a 30% transfer acceptance rate. That might seem easy in comparison to the Ivy Leagues but 30% is still really difficult. they reject 70 out of every 100 applicants. One should not see that as ‘Oh I probably get in.’ Colleges are trying to build a class, not a sheet of numbers.
