Chances for UC, Umich, UW, RPI (international transfer)

Transfer Students
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<p>OOS and international
current school: top 5 university in mainland china
major: electrical engineering
GPA: 3.69/4 (all electrical eng, math, physics courses are A or A-)
no chemistry since it is not offered
TOEFL: 92 (not good but above the minimum)
No SAT(As a junior, I don't need to submit SAT)
Have taken some summer school at top university in U.S. and have a gpa 4.13/4(one A+, 9 quarter credits total)
some EC (but I don't think they believe any ec from china)</p>

<p>dream school: Cal UCLA UCSD Umich UWisc UWashington WUSTL UIUC RPI</p>

<p>and I will retake TOEFL. If it was 100+, I will apply for Cornell, CMU ...</p>

<p>For Umich and UWisc, I will apply for some other major like interdisciplinary physics in LSA because I have no chemistry.</p>

<p>any comment will be appreciated.</p>

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<p>Cal, UCLA – High Reach
UCSD, UMich, UWashington – Low Reach
UIUC – Safe
Cal and UCLA always prefer mostly CCC > CSU > CU > OOS > intl, and you are applying for the impact major EE which usually has a GPA cut-off around 3.8 for OOS. My pal applied transfer from UIUC to Cal and UCLA last year with GPA 3.9 got rejected. Maybe the only good news is UCs are out of budget and need some money from OOS or intl students.<br>
You have a fair chance for Umich tho. They admitted lots of transfers last year and ad rate was around 50%. (dont know about intl transfer, but should not be bad either)
dont know much about WUSTL and RPI
good luck buddy</p>

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<p>I’m currently trying to leave RPI (don’t take that as a sign that it’s bad, my reasons for leaving have nothing to do with the quality of the school), so I can comment on your chances there. I would say that you can probably consider it a match school.</p>

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<p>Thank you.</p>

<p>How many RPI student go to prestigeous professional/graduate schools after graduation?</p>

<p>How many of them get in business school?</p>

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<p>RPI is very career oriented, so the majority of students, especially in the engineering majors, will get jobs right out of school. That said, about a quarter of RPI grads go on to graduate school.</p>

<p>[Center</a> for Career and Professional Development (CCPD) for Students :: Recruiting Stats](<a href=“Students | Career and Professional Development”>Students | Career and Professional Development) This page has more information including schools that students from the last two graduating classes were accepted to.</p>

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<p>Sounds like RPI is more like a vocational school. But the graduate school list is still excellent. Much better than my current university in china.</p>

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<p>Yeah, they are very vocational (partly why I’m leaving), but I think they’re moving away from that (putting more emphasis on their graduate school). They also do a lot of research. I think that if you are interested in an engineering degree, they’re as good as any place, and it won’t hurt your chances at getting into an great graduate school.</p>