Chances @ U chicago, Dartmouth, NYU, etc...

Transfer Students
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<p>Chances at: U Chicago, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Northwestern, NYU (Stern), George Washington</p>

<p>I'm a freshman at a top 25 LAC where I got in ED. Long story short, my parents wanted me to explore my option to more competetive schools, and I wimped out. But now that I'm at a very good school, a little voice in my head has me wondering if I would have gotten in to more competetive schools. I like it here all right, but I didn't really have a good idea of what I wanted to study, but now do (Geography, Urban Planning, Econ). I also am not satisfied with the town or the habitual party scene. I can explain all of this in my transfer essay / interviews. </p>

<p>HS record:
3.9 GPA including 5 total AP classes, (Senior Year I designed my own AP Independent Study in Geography and ended up nailing it.) </p>

<p>I had the most difficult schedule in my high school class getting mostly B+s and A-s.</p>

<p>ECs:
State board of ed.
Governors advisory council on education
pres of class for 3 years
local board of ed student rep for 2
junior / senior year designed board game for my town that brought in over $13,000 and required lots of public relations / business type stuff</p>

<p>fantastic recs</p>

<p>scores are what I'm most self-conscious about:
ACT 25, writing 11, only decent SAT II was US His: 660, Math I: 530 and Spanish 560. I took AP Micro / Macro online and got 3s, a 3 in Spanish Language, and a 3 in US History. I got a 5 in my Independent Study AP Geog. </p>

<p>I interview very well. My college is on a weird schedule, so if I had to guess I'll probably have about a B+ schedule as I apply for Fall 08 as a Sophmore.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>A college average of "B+" is equivalent to a 3.3 and that's relatively low. You're going to need to bring that up if you want to compete with the other transfer applicants. Your low test scores certainly won't help you. I say you have a good shot at GW. All the other schools look like reaches to me.</p>

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<p>How about BU College of Management?</p>

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<p>Honestly I think you will have an uphill battle with those scores and a 3.3 College GPA. NYU and GW are possible, Dartmouth is practically impossible.</p>

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<p>Your test scores will stand out</p>

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<p>lol good luck with dartmouth and chicago -- both those schools overenrolled so i think they might be accepting fewer transfers this year. esp dartmouth. they were shooting for 1,000ish freshmen and ended up taking 1,160</p>

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<p>^^^ i'm pretty sure chicago reserves a certain # of transfer slots regardless of freshman enrollment</p>

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<p>^^^ I hope you're right.</p>