<p>What are my chances of transferring into a top School? </p>
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<p>Stats: Male, African-American</p>
<p>Sophmore at Lesley University. Major-International Studies
GPA-4.0
SAT Verbal-800
Math-750
SAT 2 French-800
U.S. History-800
World History-800
Literature-780</p>
<p>Summer School courses at Harvard (2005)-Advanced French-A, Expository Writing-A
Summer School courses at Stanford(2006)-Introduction to International Relations-A, Intermediate Russian-A</p>
<p>High School- Extremely horrible. School-Public, Hampton, South Carolina</p>
<p>GPA-2.3/4.0 Rank-94/147
Captain of Varsity Tennis Team
Varsity Cross Country
Varsity Track and Field
Model United Nations
Foreign Language Club.</p>
<p>*Fluent in Portuguese, French, and Spanish.</p>
<p>What Are my chances at the following school with my major being Slavic Languages and Literatures:
Harvard
Yale
UPENN
Stanford
Columbia
Cornell
Northwestern
Brown
UC, Berkeley
NYU
Amherst
Wesleyan
Williams
Swarthmore</p>
<p>Wow, I would say you're in at Cornell, Northwestern, NYU, Swarthmore and Weslayan.</p>
<p>As for HYS and the other uber elites. I have no idea. Understand though, that you are a REALLY strong applicant. Based on your scores, college GPA through 3 semesters, interesting major declaration and ethnic status (including your mastery of 3 languages) I'd say you look good for at least one of the elites.</p>
<p>Well, they were both worth it.I think I liked Harvard better, just because of boston. If you are more of a California type of person, Stanford definately. Both Great.</p>
<p>OK, no offense, but a 4.0 at Lesley isn't that impressive. It's a school above The Gap on Massachusetts Avenue. I don't think you have a shot at any Ivy nor schools like Tufts, Gtown, etc.. especially with that awful high school record. Your 4.0 at Lesley would resonate a lot more if you had at least a 3.0 in high school. No school like Harvard or Ivy equivalents like the ones I listed just now are going to allow a transfer who slacked off in high school to join their students who worked their butts off since they were 14. Only in EXTREMELY rare cases (I used to work in an admissions office so I've heard these conversations).</p>
<p>You have to shoot for maybe some low NESCACs like Bates, Bucknell, etc. Your best bet in the Boston area are BU, Emerson. If you're interested in intl studies though, look at GWU and American -- great schools, and much more in your reach.</p>
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No school like Harvard or Ivy equivalents like the ones I listed just now are going to allow a transfer who slacked off in high school to join their students who worked their butts off since they were 14. Only in EXTREMELY rare cases (I used to work in an admissions office so I've heard these conversations).
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<p>Really? Because my HS record was pretty much the same, and I am definitely not an extreme case.</p>
<p>I am an exception to the rule, but if you work hard, you are not barred from the top 25.</p>
<p>I don't know where you transferred to, but you must be a rare gem. I'm not sayingi t's impossible but it's REALLY HARD. Also, I said in "extremely rare cases" not in "extreme cases."</p>
<p>Someone has to be honest here! This OP is considering HARVARD; I mean, come on. Harvard transfers this year (I know because a friend transferred from Tufts to Harvard this year) are from UVA, other Ivies, Berkeley, Stanford, and Wellesley.</p>
<p>OK, to put things into context, I worked at Tufts admissions for a year. The transfers who applied and got in (~10% acceptance rate; more competitive than regular admissions) all came from NESCAC schools, Georgetown, NYU, Cornell, the stronger of the women's colleges (Smith, Wellesley), the best state schools (UCLA, UMich, etc.), great liberal arts colleges (Grinnell, Carleton, Wesleyan) and all had such excellent high school records, it's likely they would've been really competitive had they applied as seniors in highs chool. I remember one adcom person telling me that they had accepted one person with a really bad high school record, but she had gone on to spend 2 years researching tribal music in the middle of nowhere Africa and then gone on to American U and gotten a 4.0 there. That was the only person with a GPA under 3.0 that got into Tufts that year I was working there.</p>
<p>Well, I did say I worked in an admissions office.</p>
<p>Maybe, what would be constructive is to tell us your history. What do you think got you in to the top 25 school you're alluding to (and which is it?); where did you transfer from, what was your "hook", if any? THere must've been something outstanding!</p>
<p>lolabelle, you seem to be forgetting the fact that the OP will have 2 years of college work completed with a 4.0 or close to it, URM status, incredibly high test scores, and good ECs. </p>
<p>I would bet you an easy mil (if I had it) that he will be accepted to Wesleyan, which has a very generous transfer rate (around 40%) and is a top 10 LAC to boot.</p>
<p>All right, if Wesleyan's admit rate for transfers is that high, then yes, there is a much better chance than I would've originally assumed. But at any of the other schools on his list?! Can a 4.0 at a school that admits 72% of its applicants be that impressive?</p>
<p>The others are reaches, but I would venture to say they are reaches for practically anyone. The fact is, his high school grades will play a minimal part in the process at this point. Granted, his 4.0 is not from a competitive college, but he has already proven his intelligence by performing exceedingly well on the SAT. His ECs are very good really, and, dare I say it - he's black. </p>
<p>I second the suggestions for UChicago and Georgetown.</p>
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What do you think got you in to the top 25 school you're alluding to (and which is it?); where did you transfer from, what was your "hook", if any?
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<p>I got into Georgetown, Rice, and Chicago. I have no idea what I did. I didn't do anything outstanding. I just knew what I wanted from the schools to which I applied, and I made clear what I wanted. I guess that sort of determination is hard to find among students in a similar situation.</p>
<p>He has a 4.0 from a no-name college. While it does show that he has done well at his school, it is difficult to tell whether he is "smart" or whether he just breezed through at an easy school. Standardized tests provide support for his intelligence. If he was ignorant, it is doutbful that he would have scored so well...in this way, the SAT measures (and reaffirms) the quality of one's education.</p>