<p>I am looking to transfer to one of these schools for a finance concentration. I think I can get into both if I uphold my 4.0 gpa and I know nothing is guaranteed. UC Berkeley is local for me so that's a plus for me, but Wharton is hands down the best. what would you recommend? My goal is to go where I would have the most job opportunities coming out of school and nothing else. Any advice would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Apply to both and see what happens.</p>
<p>I don’t think either Haas or Wharton takes transfers. I’ve heard you can’t transfer into Wharton even from other schools at Penn. It’s unlikely that you meet their stringent requirements like minimum GPA for some “weeder” classes. These weeder classes themselves have a bunch of pre-reqs. how do you do these if you’re not already there?</p>
<p>You may have better luck with something like Stern or Baruch in NYC.</p>
<p>^^Haas ONLY takes junior transfers, i.e., you cannot enter as a Frosh.</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of a single person who has transferred into Haas from a community college or any other college. Haas admits almost entirely from Berkeley. You may have a shot if you have 3.5 or better pre-business Econ at UCLA. That’s about it.</p>
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Er, what?</p>
<p>Over 25% of the incoming undergrads at Haas are transfers from other colleges.</p>
<p>blaw, you haven’t heard does not mean it’s not exist.</p>
<p>continue berkeley students statistics [Admissions</a> Statistics, Undergraduate Program - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/statsucb.html]Admissions”>http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/statsucb.html)</p>
<p>transfer student statistics [Transfer</a> Statistics, Undergraduate Program - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/statstransfer.html]Transfer”>http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/statstransfer.html)</p>
<p>Transfer Eligibility [Transfer</a> Eligibility, Undergraduate Program - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley](<a href=“http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/transfer_eligibility.html]Transfer”>http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/Undergrad/transfer_eligibility.html)</p>
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<p>For East Cost opportunities, Wharton hands down. For West Coast opportunities, Haas has got an edge. </p>
<p>You can’t go wrong in going to either school - they are 2 of the best undergrad business schools in America. </p>
<p>You may also want to consider applying to Ross, Stern and USC. Ross and Stern are both top 5 schools whilst USC is just in the brim of top 10… and, yeah, it’s very possible to transfer to Haas on your junior year. They take in a sisable number of transfer students, though the requirements are quite high.</p>
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<p>When you step back and think about it (i.e., use critical thinking skills), such a statement makes absolutely zero sense in our Blue State. There is absolutely NO way that Cal can tell kids attending a juco that they will not be admitted to Haas, or that they have less than a 1% chance. It would be academic and political suicide.</p>
<p>Out of ~1500 applicants 400 were eligible. Haas has very stringent pre-requisites. Be sure to look into that and see if you’re eligible before wasting time and money applying.</p>
<p>Interesting that it has a 90% yield. Too bad you’ll have to suffer through Cal football if you choose to attend. Misery loves company.</p>
<p>There is no competition, no school places globally in elite busies jobs like Wharton. Closest would be HYP.</p>
<p>Getting in is another story. While a few transfers make it in, it’s not about a 4.0 from a cc. They will still be looking for very high test scores, and busiess accomplishment.</p>
<p>Haas isn’t easy, but with a 4.0 nd rigous classes, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Why don’t you apply to both. You haven’t even gotten in yet so why post this question up?</p>
<p>[Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/wharton/surveys.html]Career”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/wharton/surveys.html)</p>
<p>Look at the career surveys…50% banking mostly from BBs, whereas my friends at Haas don’t even think they have a realistic shot at ibanking and are looking into research, consulting, or small west coast boutiques. Yes I realize this is pre-crisis, but I can guarantee that you will have better career prospects and a better network at Wharton. </p>
<p>I would also disagree that Haas even has an edge in west coast jobs, it’s just that most people here would rather get some Wall St experience on their resume first before heading somewhere else.</p>
<p>Summer Analyst class at a BB in NYC</p>
<p>Ivy League
University of Pennsylvania: 12
Harvard: 8
Cornell: 7
Princeton: 6
Yale: 4
Columbia: 4
Dartmouth: 2
Brown: 0</p>
<p>Other Top Schools
NYU: 8
University of Chicago: 7
University of Virginia: 5
Michigan: 4
MIT: 4
Georgetown: 3
Berkeley: 3
UT - Austin: 3
Stanford: 2
Duke: 2
Rice: 2
Northwestern: 2
USC: 2
Notre Dame: 2
Washington University in St. Louis: 1
Tufts: 0
UCLA: 0</p>
<p>Liberal Arts Colleges
Williams: 5
Wellesley: 3
Smith: 2</p>
<p>You want the most job opportunities? You know where you need to go</p>
<p>“blaw, you haven’t heard does not mean it’s not exist.”</p>
<p>I stand corrected, thank you! Interesting stats. So you have a shot at one of the 100 spots for which 1500 apply. That’s 7% admit rate (compare 8% for Harvard and Princeton). Granted, the applicant pool is not similar. Most of the 100 are likely from California JC’s.</p>
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Incorrect.</p>
<p>If you read more carefully, you’ll see that unlike the Harvard and Princeton applicant pools, the vast majority of the transfer applicant pool is unqualified.</p>
<p>Of those who actually fulfill all of the course requirements, about 25% are admitted.</p>
<p>Let me get this right. What do you think is the % admits from the “qualified” pool for Harvard and Princeton? From what I can tell, they do a lot of farming and get a lot of people to apply so they can be so much more selective. Heck, I have the emails and hardcopy from Harvard that I tossed in the garbage. What makes you believe that everybody who apply there are qualified … the nice rejection letters they write?</p>
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That’s not exactly proving your point considering
– you didn’t apply
– you didn’t discuss your qualifications</p>
<p>An admissions officer once said on CC that over 80% of the applicants were numerically qualified, which sounds about right to me. Realistically, most people know they don’t have that great of a chance at HYP.</p>
<p>Are you seriously attempting to claim that only 27% (the UC%) of the applicant pool at HYP is qualified? Nonsense. </p>
<p>(Also, that letter should have been recycled rather than trashed. Tsk, tsk.)</p>
<p>I should let this die … more noise than signal on this thread.</p>
<p>Just want to remind you to try and compare apples and apples,
not apples and oranges. If you’re going to compare acceptance
rates, use the same methodology. NOT overall acceptance rate for HYPS and a higher rate based on a “qualified pool” for another college.</p>
<p>Some of the most sought after programs in CA schools such as Berkeley Haas, UCLA Bizecon, USC Annenberg are at least as selective as the average HYPS admission whether you like it or not.</p>
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You didn’t read it right. Out of the ~1500 applicants, only 400 are “eligible”. The rest didn’t meet the Haas transfer pre-requisities. We haven’t got to the part whether they are “qualified” yet.</p>