<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>Ok, well my GPA and profile were very similar to yours–we even had the same honors major (except I’m doing a double major with math). </p>
<p>Upenn: I was rejected. Don’t see why you should get in
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NYU: I think you will get in here for sure
Johns Hopkins: Reach</p>
<p>okay thanks for the input. Penn is definitely a crapshoot I think for most people. I really am hoping to at least be considered there. Did you try to transfer into wharton or CAS?</p>
<p>Wow, I am applying to CAS as well. Sorry to hear you were rejected, I am still going to apply with the mindset of not getting in haha.</p>
<p>Yes, I said that my major is the same as yours lol. CAS has a 7% acceptance rate. Don’t be held under the illusion of Cornell’s “20%” transfer acceptance rate.</p>
<p>haha i am not expecting to be accepted there either, just curious your profile says you live in chapel hill. do you go to UNC?</p>
<p>Yes, I had to turn down Northwestern because it was too expensive.</p>
<p>Wow, still pretty impressive you got in there though. UNC is still a pretty great school. It definitely 1 ups where I go currently haha</p>
<p>Why not apply to UNC as well? I see that you are applying to NYU and UNC is arguably better.</p>
<p>Our profiles were very similar and I got into Northwestern. There’s no reason you can’t either. You might even have a chance at those places I got rejected at because it looks like you can pay full freight. I applied for financial aid which I think is the reason I got rejected.</p>
<p>@jake5504 - ‘TheApollo’ sounds a lot like an old poster on here named ‘muaythaiguy17’ or something like that. He was a Canadian and didn’t have the best transfer experience b/c he was an international…he also gave out sketchy advice and was generally a bit of a hater after the experience was less than favorable to him. Not sure if ‘theapollo’ is him but the guy I speak of thought he was a shoe-in at a top 15 and ended up ****ed he’s going to UNC. Some humility is necessary in this process, however, I suggest you apply where you originally intended to as I think you have a real chance at most. Takeaway is internationals have a harder time. Take advice on here w/a grain of salt and look at past results threads to get a true idea of your chances. You didn’t mention your SAT’s which will matter for some schools.</p>
<p>Also look into applying to other schools at Cornell (ILR, CALS, HumEc) if you really want in as they have higher transfer acceptance rates.</p>
<p>From your list I’d guess-</p>
<p>In: Villanova, NYU
50/50: Brown, Cornell, Georgetown</p>
<p>rest is a lottery but you only need one to accept you. DO NOT apply for finaid to Brown and I imagine you’ll be surprised…they like people that can pay full tuition which I’m guessing your parents can…I predict you’re looking at a Brown acceptance in the next 10 months. </p>
<p>Not sure if the west coast holds any appeal but with budget issues I’ve heard it’s easier to get into Berkeley/UCLA as an OOS applicant now if you can pay full tuition. Agree that you might wanna add Northwestern.</p>
<p>Really, yolocholo? 50/50 at CAS, which has a 7% acceptance rate? Who is giving the bad advice here?</p>
<p>I said that he has a real chance at these places given that he can pay full freight.</p>
<p>3.8 is plenty high enough and his EC’s are good…we don’t know the SAT score but if it’s in range then yes I’d say 50/50…especially if he applies to non CAS Cornell…you had a different experience as an international and giving advice w/out expressing that is a bit misleading. He’s also in honors, at Penn St., which is a respectable school in its own right. More important will be the essays explaining why he wants to move…</p>
<p>Was it because I was an international or because I applied for financial aid? I think it was the latter. I was in honors too, mind you, and a harder program because it was double majored with honors math.</p>
<p>If I recall correctly from reading the thread, lots of people with high GPA’s (3.8+) got rejected from CAS, UPenn, etc. I think you are exaggerating because it was so easy for you.</p>
<p>As he doesn’t have any financial need that eliminates the issue you perceive caused you such heartache this application cycle. With that eliminated as an issue he may find smoother sailing…there were many accepted to Brown with less than perfect stats that can pay full freight. </p>
<p>The fact that I could pick you out in a random thread, with a new user name, based on your tone of writing may speak to a bigger issue you had in applying. Perhaps adcoms took similar note…</p>
<p>I would say essays are very important in differentiating so many qualified applicants…</p>
<p>Yeah definitely, thanks for the advice.</p>
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