Chance of Transfer Admission?

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Hi all,

I am currently a freshman at a Miami University in Ohio. I’m considering transferring to several schools, including Columbia University. I would like a more well rounded and challenging education than the one I’m currently receiving here. I screwed around a lot my freshman and sophomore years of high school, which hurt my GPA (I was able to bring it up significantly hmy junior and senior years though). I’m currently a freshman at the business school here at Miami (ranked #23 for undergrad business programs), and I’m in the honors and business honors programs here.

My stats:
High School GPA: 3.45 (unweighted)/4.2(weighted)
SAT: 2200 (1480 Math/Reading)
College GPA: 4.0 (Including 2 honors classes and taking one more next semester)

Background/ Extracurricular:

I come from a very wealthy area near a major city. High school was very competitive/challenging. Dad went to Columbia.

High School-
Several leadership positions in high school (Student Council VP, Founder/President of investment club)
Mock Trial
3 sport varsity athlete (soccer state champion)

College (first semester)-
Delta Sigma Pi International Business Fraternity (Selected as 1 of 25 of over 150 applicants)
Investment Banking Club (Selected as 1 of 8 of over 250 applicants)
Several case competitions (including one investment banking case comp and 2nd place in a PwC case comp)

Do I have a decent chance at getting in? Any suggestions? Applying as an econ major.

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I am actually in the same situation as you are right now. I am studying at the University of Southern California and in its business school. Our experience, besides academics, is also very similar. I spent the last two month preparing the SAT again and just retook it this Dec and hopefully can get 2300+. How is your application going? Finished yet?

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It’s going well so far. Waiting until after finals and I get home for break to really get going though. How about you?

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bump

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@transfer997 Again we are in the same situation. I am about to finish my final tomorrow. I am now looking for the right people to write me the recommendation letter and planning on a trip to meet several students who have successfully transferred to CU.