Chance, transfer from Vandy to top 10 schools

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm currently a freshmen whose major is math & econ. </p>

<p>Transfer list:</p>

<p>Stanford
UPenn (CAS)
UChicago
Northwestern
JHU
Brown
Columbia</p>

<p>Current University: Vanderbilt University
Current courses:Cal 3, intermediate microecon, Java, Composition
Current GPA: Now it is the middle of the fall semester and all my midterms ,quiz, homework go well(all higher than 95). Hopefully a 3.9-4.0.</p>

<p>High School:
GPA: 3.8
HS Rank: 15/570
SAT: 2230
SAT 2: Math level 2: 800, Chemistry: 780, Physics: 780
AP(all 5): US history, Micro, Macro, Cal BC, Chemistry.</p>

<p>EC's:
Internship at Beijing Great Wall Securities
President & Co-founder of "Smile" Volunteer Society
Captain of secondary school debate team
Journalist at Beijing Middle School News Agency
Public Sector at Transmit Childhood, a Chinese NGO
Vanderbilt Mobile Applications Team
Vanderbilt Computer Science Club
Vanderbilt Math Club
Vanderbilt Student Volunteer for Science </p>

<p>Awards, Achievement, and Recognition:
Best representative in MUN
Best debater in regional contest
Vanderbilt Dean's list
Oracle certificated java programmer
AP scholar with distinction
High school model student</p>

<p>Financial Aid Needed?:
No</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>Those schools are very hard to chance for a transfer because they have low acceptance rates :. It might be better if you get a little more of an academic record before trying to transfer to one of those, so they have more to look at. You do look like you are doing quite well as a freshman though and I would say if you keep it up you have the credentials to get yourself in. Its just really comes down to hooks and your essays.</p>

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<p>Why are you transferring?</p>

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<p>^ isn’t it obvious, lol?</p>

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<p>It seems that he wants to do computer science, but I would need a more depth elaboration than that…</p>

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<p>@Yakov Computer science is one of my interest but not my major. I transfer to the above schools because Vandy does not have applied math major. But some of above schools(Upenn, JHU, NU) have applied math & actuarial minor, and some of them(Uchicago, Stanford) have very very strong econ department. I want to be an actuary or a researcher in econometrics.</p>

<p>@perfect36 What do you mean?~</p>

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<p>@Yakov Also, Nashville does not have a very strong international environment like those cities in the north to start my own enterprise or looking for research/internship opportunity</p>

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<p>bump bump~</p>

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<p>bump bump~</p>