@gapyearstudent : You aren’t being roasted, and I believe a lot of transfers do what you are doing (most transfers often come from lesser known LACs, other large publics that have a lower rep. for undergrad education, or other medium privates. The point is that they perceive schools like Emory and Ivies as more prestigious so expect something better than what they are getting at their current school.
This expectation may be right or wrong, but it clearly exists). The only difference is that I guess you backed out of access to Emory via Oxford, which I suppose I understand, but others don’t. I’m just simply saying that people should not apply to Oxford unless they want to go for more reasons than access to Emory. You aren’t the only one who did that. It is possible that most or half of the Oxford applicants do that. You just made a more sensible decision IMHO. As in, you didn’t go because you preferred a school more like Emory from the get go and knew that you wouldn’t be happy with the choice.
If you wanna call that a roasting to point it out, then sure, yes you and many others trying to transfer in the manner you are get roasted (BTW, I think certain schools among your list have better social science and political science/foreign language undergraduate education and learning environments than others.
I think it is kind of pointless to apply to a slew of prestigious upgrades if searching for increased quality in key areas. Not all will provide it).
This spread is a little bit dead, so I will post something.
Do you guys think if I have a shot?
Stats:
College transferring from: a top 50 university in California
Entering as: Junior
Major: Business Administration (Finance)
GPA: 3.71
GPA Improvement Trend: 3.62, 3.47, 3.94 (sophomore year second semester)
Units completed: 62 units after Spring semester
Pre-reqs completed: All
Essay: 9/10
Letters of Recommendation: 2
Other schools applied to: USC, UCB HAAS, UCLA, UCSD, UCI
Comments: I am low in units which is an disadvantage, but my essay, recommendation letters, resume should increase my chance of admission. I also uploaded two personal statements.
I am a rising junior so if Emory accepts me, I have to spend a year at Emory college before spending two years at their business school. That means I will have to spend an extra year of college. I am willing to experience one year of Emory’s college life though, but I am not sure how much Emory will consider me. Best of luck!
Correction to the above post: it’s sophomore year first semester.
I am in my second semester now.
@bernie12 Yeah I have no regrets about starting my college education here; I set up a very strong foundation. But I do feel that it’s also time for me to move on to a new place given my evolving interests and especially strong interest in Pakistan. With MESAS i could potentially pursue medicine and then return to Pakistan to practice there–that’s the idea/maybe pursue politics one day.
@sagaciousforever I don’t chance people, but I don’t think anyone would believe that you don’t have a good shot or are in the ballgame.
@ljberkow Thanks. Yes, it totally depends on the admission officers. We will see!
You’re welcome. Even though you would have to spend an additional year, you can still take courses in the business school and probably double major since you probably will all of the prerequisites. Hopefully, you’ll get in to Emory and one of the first things you would want to do would be to meet with one of the two pre-business advisors. Good luck!
@ljberkow Thanks for your kind words! Are you a business major undergraduate at Emory? Double major would be a solid choice if I do get accepted and choose to attend Emory. That way, I can make the extra year of tuition more valuable.
Also, I assume that not all of my 62 units (including 3 units from AP) will transfer, so maybe 40-50 ish will transfer. This means that I am not too much ahead of regular rising sophomores since they could potentially come in with a lot of AP/IB credits. I only came into college with AP Macroeconomics credit.
For the pre-reqs, I completed Financial Accounting, Business Calculus, Business Statistics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and a business computing excel class (I am not sure if Emory needs it). For the GEs, I finished the lower-division English Composition, Sociology, Western Culture, Seminar, Asian History, a public speaking class, and a fine art class.
Hi, I am a parent of a pre-business Emory student and I’m an alumni of the business school as well (long ago when it was in the Rich Building). It certainly wasn’t called Goizueta back then, but he was the commencement speaker at my graduation.
Just curious, why do believe such a large number of your courses won’t transfer? In any case, I find it interesting that Emory admitted more in the Class of 2023 from California than any other state. I wonder why Emory has seen such a shift west.
@ljberkow Why do you or why do I believe? Do you think that most of my classes will transfer?
@ljberkow Good to hear from a Emory parent’s perspective.
Also, I think a lot of community colleges students in California want to transfer to Emory so that’s why so many students are from Cali!
I wasn’t talking about community college transfers. The Class of 2023 has more admissions than any other state, even more than Georgia.
Are you transferring from a community college? I read your post to be a top 50 college that’s in California. Transferring from a community college would be very tough. As for the courses, the excel course would probably get thrown out and I’m not sure about business calculus. At Emory, it should be a standard calculus course.
@ljberkow Yes I am transferring from a top 50 university in California. I would say transferring from a community college is easier because more classes will match Emory. It is also easier to get high GPA (3.8 to 4.0) than any top 50 university.
Hopefully Business Calculus will be fine, but since I am still applying to stay one year at Emory College, they could potentially allow me to complete this requirement if Business Calculus is not transferable.
@ljberkow My top choices are USC and Emory now. I will most likely find out the outcome of both schools by next month. If I do get into both, I will take a while to decide.
I don’t think Emory is overly anxious to take in transfers from community colleges. More than anything, I believe their baseline on any admission is their belief that a student can do Emory level work. I’m not so sure that can be proven out of a community college. I’m not an expert in this area, just a feeling.
@ljberkow I agree with your input. I hope all the best for my application result!
Emory does have a safe and peaceful community and campus. The undergraduate business school ranks high, slightly below USC.
@ljberkow and @sagaciousforever : I don’t think Emory cares. I do think a CC transfer would have more of their credits denied though. It tends to give people even from public schools a hard time transferring in economics credits. Either way, you are right. I honestly don’t think they are particularly eager to take someone from any school unless they did well at the previous school. I’d imagine that how well that is does depend on the caliber of school (not to even be conflated with rank). I’d worry about some of the economics and gen. ed classes transferring.
@bernie12 Thank you for your input! So I have a question for Emory’s undergraduate business school. On Emory’s website, it says that rising juniors are not encouraged to apply to the business school because they have to spend a year at Emory college even if admitted.
I still applied and explained in my essay that I would be willing to take an additional year at Emory College. So will the admission officers still accept me if they see me as a good fit?
For economics classes, I got AP Macro credit in high school and Micro from freshman year.
I am not so sure that USC has a better business school than Emory does and I don’t go by US News for that either. However, if you see yourself as going back to LA to begin your career or if you want to go into an area of strength that USC has, like accounting, then those should be factors. Emory has a beautiful campus, but that doesn’t sound like a compelling reason to choose it.
@ljberkow I applied to Emory mainly because of the community.
The campus is also safer than USC, and they have a top-notch business program.