Chances for Transfer to top university

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am currently a first year student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and am looking to transfer to a top tier school (Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Cornell, Northwestern, NYU, and Wharton).
High school GPA: 11.671 out of 14 weighted (Note: It's impossible to have a 14 as my school doesn't offer enough honors classes, the valedictorian had approximately a 12.4 GPA)
ACT: 32
Projected GPA after first semester at UW: 4.0 (I'm standing pretty well, unless I totally screw up my finals this shouldn't be a problem)
I don't have that many experiences other than occasional volunteer work (mainly through youth sports), I focused on sports throughout high school and never really had the time to do much else.
Sports: Multiple time state qualifier (Some of the schools I listed above are interested in having me compete for them). I was being recruited senior year, got hurt and thought my career was over. I have been coming back steadily and the schools that were recruiting me before are still expressing interest.</p>

<p>Recommendations:
UW Professor who got his Master's from Chicago
UW Professor who is the President of the American Sociological Association, undergrad from Harvard, PhD from Berkeley</p>

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<p>Which sport ?</p>

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<p>I wrestle.</p>

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<p>Edit:
Also likely to get a recommendation from an Assistant Professor who was a Keck Fellow at the Harvard-Center for Astrophysics.</p>

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<p>Your chance for Harvard and Stanford is almost non existent, but I think that you have a decent shot for the other ones.</p>

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<p>you may be able to get in through the sports route. Academically, your HS stats aren’t up to par with most of the schools you listed and 1 semester of college does not hide your high school GPA.</p>

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<p>Honestly, the ones to Harvard and Stanford are just me throwing me out an application and seeing what happens (mainly to appease my family for giving it a shot). I assumed I wouldn’t have much of a shot (Harvard had what? Like 15 transfer students last year?)
If I had to choose my schools preferences it would be the two from Illinois (where I live) followed by Wharton and then NYU and Cornell as final choices.
Coaches I’ve talked to (only my top preferences) seemed happy enough with my statistics to keep in contact with me. I know those two (mainly Chicago) are at least relatively up to par with the others so I thought I’d give a couple other schools a shot.</p>