<p>Hello fellow CCers,</p>
<p>I am a current sophomore at UCSC and plan to apply to schools this fall for Jr. Transfer. I am applying under Economics and Business where available. If you could bare with me, I would appreciate an idea about which schools are safeties/matches/reaches and recommended schools for each of these categories. I am especially interested in schools that are better ranked than UCSC but are low match/safe for me so I do not need to be here next year.</p>
<p>College GPA overall: 3.9 (upward trend)
GPA in major prerequisites: 3.86
High School GPA: ~3.4 UC GPA (5 APs), 1710 SAT
EC's:
-Strong leadership role in Senior Year of High school
-Summer internship (between high school and 1st year at college): Served as the Economic Analyst for a small business for three months.
-Member of a club related to my major from Spring 09-current
-Volunteering over summer at a homeless shelter (around 50-100 hours estimate)
-On campus part time job (work study) Fall 2009-current</p>
<p>Schools interested in:
UCB (Economics)
UCLA (Economics)
UCSD (Economics)
UCD (Economics)
UCI (Business Economics)
UCSB (Economics)
USC (Business Administration)
Northwestern (Economics)
NYU (Business)
University of Washington (Economics)
University of Notre Dame (Economics)</p>
<p>Essays: For the UC's I am going to talk about my interest in economics (mostly talk about how my internship sparked my interest). For the other schools, I plan to talk about how I did not know what I wanted in life until I got to college, which explains the gap in stats between these two periods of my life (should be a good essay). </p>
<p>I am up for any ideas and help. Thank you for your time.</p>