<p>College: Penn State (schreyers honors college)
Major: Economics
Minor: Spanish, Business Administration
College GPA: 3.8
36 credits completed sophomore year
Transferring in as a junior</p>
<p>Jobs: Supervisor(intern) at work study program through psychology firm for juveniles
Tutor at Penn State's writing center
Intern and employee at Mortgage Banking Company</p>
<p>E.C.'s: Sustainability Economics Research sophomore year(hopefully will be published)
Traveled to several research conferences with honors program
Lots of international experience
President and founder of sustainability club
Residence Hall Council member for my dorm building
500+ hours volunteering through the salvation army, habitat for humanity, relay for life, working at state parks, and coaching youth baseball.
Baseball player(could have played at least Division 2 but chose not too)
Excellent Piano Player</p>
<p>Recommendations: 2 Strong Recommendations from close family friends
(one is a Upenn Graduate and one is a Columbia Graduate)
2 Excellent Recommendations from very close professors
1 Strong Recommendation from honors coordinator
1 Strong Recommendation from Admissions Dean</p>
<p>Awards(post high school): Deans list award (twice)
Penn State Superior Academic Achievement Award (twice)
Top 1% Percentile of Penn States Liberal Arts College</p>
<p>Other Factors: White (Caucasian)
Family income 500,000+</p>
<p>Colleges I am applying to: Upenn, Cornell, Columbia, UChicago, Brown, Villanova(safety), Georgetown, NYU, and Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>Please chance me and thanks for your thoughts!</p>
<p>I think you have an excellent chance at admission to all of those schools. I believe it will come down to your essays and showing passion for the school. Good luck!</p>
<p>I think you stand a good chance in general to all of those schools, but what about your SAT/ACT scores I think they still factor that into their admissions decision.</p>
<p>To be honest they are both pretty average. I know they ask for them but I do not think they matter much for junior transfers. If they do I am definitely retaking them.</p>
<p>You have good stats, so you are in range for all of the schools; but remember everyone has good stats. All those schools have acceptance rates in the teens and single digits (depending on which program you apply to), so keep that in mind.</p>
<p>What you will need to focus on is writing honest, school specific essays. Not just the generic things about the school that everyone will write about, but find things that only a student going there would know, and incorporate them into your interest in applying there. Good luck!</p>
<p>Okay thank you very much. A few of my cousins went to ivy league and ivy league caliber schools and they are going to give me a lot of help on my essays for the schools. Thanks so much for the advice.</p>
<p>The two from my professors I believe will be incredible. The one from the admissions dean should be very strong as well. We will have to see what happens.</p>
<p>Why do you want to transfer? Make sure you clarify your reasons in your essay. Also, I don’t see a point in adding a “safety” transfer school, unless you strongly want to leave Penn State. I don’t think Villanova is significantly better than Penn State in business and economics.</p>
<p>I have some pretty strong reasons however I am not comfortable listing them on here. I really like villnova’s location and the school itself I realize it isn’t superior to PSU in those fields. I really do not want to finish at PSU for those reasons however and that is why I have villanova on the list just in case I do not get in anywhere else.</p>