Chance of Transferring to HARD schools?? =[ and success stories?

Transfer Students
1

<p>Hey all</p>

<p>I'm currently at Northwestern and looking to transfer to Duke, Stanford, and UPenn. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>-After 1 quarter here at NU, i have a 3.7 gpa, all straight A-'s (we go by A and A- correlating to a 4.0 and 3.7 respectively, damn this system).</p>

<p>-currently a a biomedical engineering major but probably going to drop engineering and go premed. </p>

<p>-In college I'm currently in a highly selective drumming group, I work as a basketball referee at a local middle school, I'm part of a Christian Intervarsity, i play intramural basketball and this month I'm signing up for a Physician Shadowing program. Is this too little? should i be doing more?</p>

<p>-In high school i took a total of 12 APs, I got 5s on all of them except for two 4s in APUSH(i think) and Spanish. </p>

<p>-4.4 weighted gpa, around a 3.6 unweighted. 35 on my ACT. (dont plan to send in SATs)</p>

<p>-Top 8% of very competitive and nationally ranked high school.</p>

<p>-I was in various high school clubs but wasn't particularly involved in leadership for clubs. My high school life focused more on volunteer work. I volunteered at a hospital my fresh/soph year. Two summers ago I was a volunteer English teacher in Taiwan. I was accepted into the "300 Club" for having more than 300 hours of community service. </p>

<p>-National Merit Scholar</p>

<p>-Attended National Student Leadership Conference for engineering at Berkeley over one summer.</p>

<p>-Other Random High school clubs that i cant think of right now...</p>

<p>-Also I have a sister that went to Stanford, graduated '07.</p>

<p>The only thing really really worrying me is WEAK recommendations. I haven't really connected with many professors yet (especially since we run on the quarter system and because a lot of my classes are rather large) so my recs I foresee are going to be relatively weak and written by professors who probably have never seen me or don't recognize me. </p>

<p>What do you think are my chances??? ( i know duke and stanford are lower than 2%, don't tell me again =X but I still don't know what penn's rate is?)</p>

<p>And are there any success stories out there of people who transferred to the above three schools? What were your stats like? </p>

<p>Thanks for reading all this crap and thanks for any and all responses =)</p>

2

<p>You should be fine for Penn, they accept about 200 students every year with rates around 20%</p>

3

<p>hey thanks for the input. can anyone else chance me?</p>

4

<p>I was wrong regarding Penn’s transfer admission rate: “Each year approximately 200 students transfer into Penn’s four undergraduate schools, selected from over 2,000 applicants.” This is from their supplement to the Common App</p>

5

<p>I believe Penn’s rate was around 13-15%. However, they think numbers will go down once again, as seen from their dramatic increase in freshman applications. They think around 10, or right below that.</p>