Hello everyone,
I am a student at community college of Philadelphia and I would like to attend the following schools as an incoming junior transfer:
University of Penn. (wharton)
Cornell University (economics)
University of virginia (finance)
University of NC-chapel hill (econ)
Umich (ross)
Boston college (business)
Georgetown university(business)
I am applying for these because they offer need based aid and I kind of need it, but I will have temple university and drexel university as safety schools.
Stats:
GPA: 3.8 (about 46 credits so far)
EC:
Full time job at Prudential (40-50hrs)
President of Alpha beta gamma
President and founder of Society of aspiring Millienials
Volunteer at special olympics
Volunteer to help raise donations for kids in need for city of Camden
Volunteer at Street Soccer USA (Philadelphia)
Part time retail job (weekends)
Asian student association
I know applying to some of these schools are outrageous but I wouldn’t know until i tried. Also, if you happened to have been a comm. college student that got into one of these schools, please post your stats. Thank you
I’m fairly certain that UPenn and Cornell require SAT/ACT scores even for transfers. What were your scores? Regardless, Upenn and Cornell are pretty much certainly out. You would need a 3.9+ probably and truly amazing EC’s to even be considered. UNC is the only one on the list that I think might be a possibility but I’m not too sure. Usually economics is a little easier to get into but you’re OOS so it will be much more difficult than it usually would. UVA for finance I have no idea but I’d guess it’s a reach because you’re OOS. Ross probably isn’t going to happen either because of OOS. BC and Georgetown I have literally no idea.
I didn’t get into one of these schools specifically, but I got into UT-Austin In-state, which is a peer school to Umich, UVA, and UNC, with a 3.9 GPA and 60 hours. My EC’s weren’t as extensive as yours but I did have some academic awards at CC. Of course, being in-state helped me a lot. Just be sure to have realistic expectations, which it seems you do. Some of these schools and majors have transfer acceptance rates below 20%, if not 10%. Also, being OOS for some of these schools just kills you when they would probably be matches if you were in-state.