Chances of transfer to Rice, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Brown

Transfer Students
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Freshman at University of Texas at Austin
GPA: 3.85, next semester’s will be higher
High School GPA: 3.71 (low because I couldn’t go to school for many months due to illness)
Major: Mechanical Engineering
SAT: 1530 (800 Math, 730 reading/writing)
Subject tests (probably won’t submit): 800 math 2, 700 chem
Race: Asian

Extra curriculars:
In college:
Camp Kesem (counselor)
Texas Engineering World Health (member)
Research next semester
Externship at large Engineering company
Possible internship/research over summer

High School:
President of Science Olympiad
President of Math Honor Society
Captain of Debate
Founder of Charity (raised 20k for a hospital)
Eagle Scout
Intern at Hospital (published research paper)

I’ve shown interest in all the schools, also applied Early Decision to Rice last year, as deferred and then rejected.

2

You should send the 800 Math 2 at least to Rice. Good Luck. Colleges will likely pay more attention to your grades and activities while at UT than those in high school. For 2017-2018, a total of 555 applied to transfer into Rice, 54 were admitted and 30 attended.

3

Why Transfer? Engineering at UT is pretty good, definitely not far behind the four privates you list and probably a lot cheaper for you since it looks like you are a Texas resident. Undergraduate engineering programs don’t vary that much between the top 100 programs. I worked with a few Northwestern engineering grads, a bunch of Purdue grads, some Toledo grads, and some RPI grads. There was really no difference between any of them as far as their engineering abilities based on college program.