<p>Chances of Getting Into Harvard or UPENN (Wharton)</p>
<p>College: Columbia University, Engineering and Applied Sciences
College GPA: 4.0
College Ecs: Member of Engineering Student Council, Treasurer of Student Life Committee, Accepted into Emerging Leaders Program, Intramural soccer</p>
<p>High School: Public
GPA: 4.0 out of 4.0
School Rank: 1st out of 392 (Valedictorian)
Weighted GPA: 5.06
SAT I: Math-800 Verbal-700<br>
SAT II: Math IIC- 800 Writing- 760 Chemistry - 740
AP Physics: 5 AP CHEM: 5 AP EURO: 5 AP ENGLISH 12: 4
AP: Statistics: 4 AP US: 5 AP English: 4 AP Calc: 5
EC: President of NHS, Captain Debate, Captain Mock Trial, Model UN, Finance director
Of school newspaper, Varsity soccer and lacrosse, Piano for 9 years
Awards: 9 math, science, leadership school-based awards, 4 regional or state awards, 3 state debate trophies</p>
<p>Jobs: Taught math at summer school
Volunteer: Hospital, Library, many tutoring hours</p>
<p>High school summers: 2003; Studied at Harvard Summer School got B+ and A- in courses. 2002; Phillips Andover got 6 out of 6 in two classes</p>
<p>Intended Major: Harvard- Applied Math with economics concentration, Wharton- Economics with finance concentration</p>
<p>Race: Indian (Asian American)
State: Connecticut (Northeast)</p>
<p>What are my chances of transferring to either school based on aforementioned stats and considering that I got rejected from Harvard and waitlisted from UPENN? Also, those who respond, can you please tell me if you got into either of these schools and if you were a transfer or not. Thanks for your time and efforts!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, these are my course fall and spring semester:
Fall: Calc III, Honors Chem, Advanced Physics (Mechanics/Relativity), Macroeconomics, University Writing
Spring: Calc IV, Physics (EM), Intermediate Micro, Gateway Lab (work in groups to solve a big problem), Computational math and physics (computer based)</p>
<p>I do not think there is any 'secret.' In disciplines that deal with primarily quantified information, getting As is a straightforward task, and is attainable if one works hard.</p>
<p>This is not to belittle his success, as he certainly worked word for his As; however, in the humanities, even the most dedicated student is susceptible to lower grades.</p>
<p>I got rejected from Harvard. For UPENN i applied to the Jerome Fischer Program (they only accept like 50 people out of thousands, supposedly), and got waitlisted.</p>
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true, but grade inflation is more prevalent in the humanities than in quantitative majors.
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<p>Grade inflation does not earn you As, it just keeps you in the high Bs. Ask any student at Harvard about how difficult it is to get an A in, say, philosophy.</p>
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easier to perform well in than humanities.
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<p>I never suggested that, and I made that clear:</p>
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In disciplines that deal with primarily quantified information, getting As is a straightforward task, and is attainable if one works hard.
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<p>I never said it was easier. I said it was more straightforward. Whereas a professor in the sciences can add all the points that made the student earn an A-, the humanities professor need not provide any reason. Indeed, I have yet to receive a numerical grade in any of my humanities courses, and I have even received not A-s, or As, but A/A-s. That is definitely not happening in the sciences.</p>
<p>the question is, what ru going to write in those essays, why would a Harvard be better than Columbia. I see you are in engineering, ru going to continue this at Harvard, that is where u got to do some clarifying in ur essays b/c the engineering program at Columbia is definetely stronger than at Harvard.</p>
<p>Congrats on your first semester performance. I don't know how many transfers Wharton takes, but I do know Harvard takes very, very few because their freshman retention rate is so high. </p>
<p>Is this about making Penn or Harvard see they should have taken you in the first place? Is it about finding a better place to get into finance? Or is it about disliking Columbia?</p>
<p>If it's about disliking Columbia, I'd add some other schools to your list. Brown and Stanford and U of Chicago all take far more transfers than Harvard. Brown is excellent in applied math and Stanford is tops in economics, as is Chicago. (I don't know about MIT's transfer situation, but also worth investigating.) If it's about getting into finance more immediately, you might look at NYU. (NYU is also excellent in applied math.) Within Columbia, if you are unhappy with the engineering core at SEAS, you might consider a transfer to the college. Good luck.</p>
<p>your stats are amazing! congrats on your success!</p>
<p>put in a good word at Columbia for me if you can! -- I don't know how much of a chance I have, but I'm going to try and transfer there. We're both indian, maybe I can just take your place!</p>
<p>I transfered into the college at penn and many of the wharton transfers I've met do not have stats nearly as good as yours. You look to be a shoo-in.</p>
<p>Could you explian though how you achieved a 5.06 weighted GPA? In order to achieve that GPA you would have had to have taken AP classes for every class in high school starting freshman year and recieved A's in all them. This also would only bring your GPA to 5.0, not 5.06. Explain?</p>