Could any one please chance me for transferring to A&M

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<p>Hi everyone</p>

<p>My name is Leo Nguyen, an international student in De Anza college, CA. I plan to apply for Spring 2011.Please chance me for TX A&M</p>

<p>Major: Economics minor in Business. I want to major in Finance/Econ, but Mays seems to be way harder to get in than School of Liberal Art. Mays also doesn't receive transfer student for Spring :( </p>

<p>Age: 22 this summer so 2 gap years? (It takes me 2 years from 2006 to 2008 in an engineering college in VN for nothing! I hate that college really much, but my parents didn't let me leave until Winter 2009)
My grade in that college is really bad that I don't want to put it into my application. I will make it as gap years. (I hate study in that school, and I think it has a deflated grade system with 8.5 highest).</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 with 51 transferable (graded) quarter. I will definitely go with this trend until I transfer.</p>

<p>Test Score: No SAT I didn't plan to go to the US to study until late 2008...</p>

<p>Rigor of classes: Not all of classes in my college have A+. I got 2 A+ for 2 Econ classes, 3As for Calculus 1A, 1B, 1C, A for English composition I class (taking 2 more), an A for Intro to Business class, an A for Political Science class, an A for Environmental Biology class w/ lab. All As and A+ for other general education classes. </p>

<p>ECs:
In high school, I joined and prepared for yearly school camps. I was also a singer for my school in a city school concert competition. My test score for a national university entrance examination was the third in my high school (around 600 kids). There is some other, but not much...
I hardly can do much ECs in college, since I need to work & volunteer on weekend. Except: being a club member for 2 clubs in school, volunteering in a program that prepares for a IYF Youth World Camp in UCLA this summer, and volunteering in an Insurance & Financial Agency (making quotes for prospective customers, answering phones, solving customers' problems with accidents,etc) for more than 2 months. I might continue this job till transferring. Last summer, when I went back to Vietnam for 2 month, I attended a volunteer program in a poor village in Vietnam for a month.
I do some photography with my DSLR, and have some good photos and an A+ for a photography class ( not sure it will be counted as ECs or not).
Member of Phi Theta Kappa</p>

<p>Recommendation: I think I will also get decent letters of recommendation from my Math prof and my Economics prof. I take 2 classes with each of them, and I was on top of all 4 classes (I got >100% for both Econ classes). I also have pretty good contacts with them too.</p>

<p>Anyone please chance me for A&M AND $1000 transfer scholarship that will waive my out of state tuition (I can merely afford 20k to 25k a year).</p>

<p>Any thoughts will be very appreciated.
Thank you!!!</p>

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<p>First of all, are you considered an international transfer or just a regular transfer? I’m not sure if it matters though…and since you’re a transfer, I don’t think your high school stats matter that much. </p>

<p>I’m sorry I’m not much help though, I’m still in high school haha. </p>

<p>P.S. Yay, we’re both Viet :D</p>

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<p>haha, Thank you. I am VNmese, and I can tell so you are from your last name too. )
I am an international student transfer from an US college ). I don’t know does it matter or not? I hope they won’t care much about my high school, since my high school stat is pretty bad, and at the time I have around 90 transferable units.</p>

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<p>Your stats look pretty good. I am also the same ethnicity as you two are lol. xD
You have pretty good chances to get in to even Mays, but I don’t know about the scholarship…</p>

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<p>This is my update :D, what do you think xcellerator?
International student transfers from a community college in CA.
Major: business/econ
College GPA: 4.0 (>90 quarter units)
I will take ACT/IELTS in January 2011 (took IELTS before, so gonna do it again)
Family contribution: 17k to 22k</p>

<p>Applied to UCLA Business Econ, UC Berkeley Haas (can’t afford to go there, but I wanna try to apply)</p>

<p>Plan to apply: (need to eliminate/add some)
Cornell for ILR school
WashU in St. Louis for Business admin
Brown for Econ
Rice for Econ</p>

<p>Safety:
Texas Christian Uni Bus
UT Dallas Bus
Texas A&M Bus
maybe Southern Methodist Uni Bus (expensive)
Ohio Wesleyan (they waive my app fee, so just apply)
Drexel? (cost is kinda high, but will apply cuz of no fee)
Tulane (expensive, but gimme fee waiver, so apply there)
1 or 2 LACs (which one is good for bus/econ?)
any other suggestions?</p>

<p>Volunteer & Community Service:

  • >150hours for an unpaid internship in an insurance agency
  • 24 hours for a bond measure campaign for the college district in last november election
  • 30 hours being teacher assistant for an elementary school
  • 64 hours during summer 2009 in Vietnam, volunteer to help working children go back to school</p>

<p>Awards & Honors:

  • Second highest score (26.5/30) in high school class for the national university entrance test
  • featured in campus newspaper for outstanding campus involvement
  • Dean’s List
  • Phi Theta Kappa</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities

  • Associated Student Body Vice President of Finance: maintain financial stability and allocate a million-dollar budget (about 12h/week)
  • Vietnamese Student Association President (about 6h/week)
  • United VSA of Northern Calif. Leadership Camp Director of Finance, developed a budget for the camp with more than 70 attendees
  • member of Honors club</p>

<p>Good UC personal statement according to my friends who got into Berkeley (need to work on the commonapp essay though)</p>

<p>Can get good recs from Director of Office of College Life (also student government advisor), VSA club advisor, math professor, econ professor, or business professor (I am still debating who should I ask for recs).
nhl1508 is online now</p>