<p>I'm going to roughly go through my stats and hopefully you guys can give me some good feedback. I'm a Sophomore looking to Transfer to the following:
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. MIT
4. Cornell
5. UCB</p>
<p>Major: Computer Science
College: Top 10 CS college, and top 20 college overall
SAT: 2310<a href="M%20800%20CR%20710%20W%20800">/b</a>
SAT II: Phy **800 Chem 800 MII 800
College GPA: 4.0/4.0
Year: Sophomore
School GPA: (equivalent) 4.0/4.0
Grade 12 Exam(India) - 97+%
Grade 10 Exam (India) - 96+% Work Experience:
1. Facebook - Summer Internship
2. Startup - Internship EC/Projects/Achievements/Relavant Details:
1. Heavy Open Source Contributor to a really important project
2. Doing some really cool research in Theoretical CS with a prof
3. First authored an academic paper
4. Working on aecond authoring another Academic Paper for the same
5. College ACM Programming Team
6. **ICO<a href="Indian%20Computing%20Olympiad">/b</a> - equiv to USACO
7. **INMO<a href="Indian%20National%20Math%20Olympiad">/b</a> - equiv to USAMO
8. A lot of proper CS projects (20-30)
9. NCC Cadet (Military Training)
10. International Chemistry Exchange Program in the UK
11. Went to feeder high school?</p>
<p>Comments:
I'm unsure of what kind of applicants they accept due to lack of data.
Really underconfident and afraid of failure.
Edit Also, by virtue of my underconfidence, I didn't apply to any of these places when I applied to college except UCB. I applied to Mich, CMU, UCB, UIUC, Purdue and GTech as far as I remember. I got in all. My SAT I score came out after I submitted these applications.
I want to transfer because my college prohibits certain academic opportunities and certain major combinations are not feasible.
I don't know if this counts as a legit transfer reason but my parents are unhappy my college name isn't an IIT/MIT/Stanford/Harvard - something the Indian masses recognize. My parents dissatisfaction affects me dearly.</p>
<p>Any tips on what I can do to improve my chances? Or feedback? I've been directed to this site by a friend and he says the people here are incredibly accurate and have insane admission records. He also asked me to post with an attractive Thread title.</p>
<p>I mean that’s one of the deepest reason I have personally. I’m definitely not going to tell the colleges that. There are a lot of other reasons I might want to transfer to these places and my essays will be based on those factors: entrepreneurship, graduate program level, professors. I acknowledge how these colleges are great, but couldn’t care less to apply unless forced. Because I was forced, I spent a lot of time making my Why X? essays.</p>
<p>“I want to transfer because my college prohibits certain academic opportunities and certain major combinations are not feasible.”</p>
<p>that is your reason right there…avoid mention of your parental pressures…</p>
<p>Your academic stats are very good! I have a more optimistic view than others on here for you. Don’t know how your international status will impact you but can imagine if you have 0 financial need Berkeley will take you with open arms. The state is bankrupt and anyone that has your stats that can pay full out of state rates seems in to me. Cornell seems likely to me as well…as for the top 3, odds are very slim for everyone but see MIT as the most likely between them.</p>
<p>If you’re an international from India I think it is highly unlikely that you will get into any. Brown, Penn, UCB, and Cornell are the only realistic shots that I see.</p>
<p>Doesn’t UCB give priority to in-state students as well? Realistically you’ll have the highest chance of getting UCB out of your pool but the chances of you actually getting into UCB as an international student are slim, especially with your reason for transferring. But then again, random things always happens here in Cali. so you never know :I</p>