<p>I was rejected ED and had no leadership in high school but did do community service. What can i do this summer and the following freshman year to ensure or boost my chances of getting in as a sophomore?</p>
<p>You don't really have a chance. Almost all of transfer students are external. Also, not many transfers at all are admitted anyways. I heard about 25 before. If you weren't good enough to get in ED, it's even harder to transfer.</p>
<p>that's quite harsh. I don't feel too happy about it as Wharton was/is my dream school but could you be more specific as to what will help my chances?</p>
<p>...or is there no chance at all and no matter how hard I try I shouldn't even think there is a chance in hell for me to get accepted?</p>
<p>i think a good answer is "do everything you can possibly do, seek out and seize any opportunity you can find."</p>
<p>this includes getting more or less a 4.0. and probably doing leadership.</p>
<p>in general, statistically, chances are slim.</p>
<p>There have been lots of threads on this. You can apply for the hell of it but don't plan your life around it - it's pretty safe to assume that you ain't getting in. They let in only a handful of people this way and one of the considerations is whether they would have taken you as a freshman. Since they already know the answer to this question, they would have to have some very good reason for changing their mind. Doing some dinky EC won't do it. If you could arrange to win the Nobel Prize that would be good. There is a chance that you'll get in in the same sense that there's a chance you'll win the pick six lotto - many will enter, few will win. The really best thing to do is to put Wharton behind you and put your wholehearted efforts into the school you will actually attend. The desire to transfer is a sign that you haven't dealt properly with the emotions of not getting in. It's a common feeling but it's not rational -it's like a guy who refuses to believe that his girlfriend has dumped him and keeps thinking that he can win her back. You didn't get in. There's very little you can do as a practical matter to change this. The dream has gone bye-bye. Deal with it. You can still have a great life and a great career in whatever school you got into. Move on. Please.</p>
<p>^ Very good advice, though it sounds harsh.</p>
<p>i see, i heard mishra, an ED reject, got in though as a transfer.</p>
<p>so one poster on this board of generally overachieving students got in, that does not change the statistics, and that person's situtation may have been quite different from yours. If you were a flat reject ED, as opposed to even a deferral, I would be extremely skepital of your already slim chances to get in. External transfers are entirely dependent on space as well, and internal transfers are generally given priority. No one can stop you from applying, and the improvements you will have to make will benefit you even if you don't get it, but you have to put things in proper perspective.</p>
<p>Take stick</p>
<p>Put into urethra</p>
<p>wharton's not all that great anyway</p>
<p>"wharton's not all that great anyway"</p>
<p>Why not?</p>
<p>I think I may have a more interesting experience at Berkeley than Penn D=</p>
<p>attach string to stick</p>
<p>attach carrot</p>
<p>dangle with glee</p>
<p>Hajimaaaaa</p>
<p>@Eloquence</p>
<p>Don't get me wrong; it's a great school and the best as far as undergraduate business goes. However, you shouldn't focus your entire life on transferring because you'll set the bar so high that disappointment is inevitable.</p>
<p>As to this whole leadership being a quality for admission...
If you're the kind of person who had no leadership in high school, I don't know that you'll fit in at Wharton. Wharton is full of moderately intelligent (but not as smart as engineers) students who are extremely ambitious. Yes, you need a good GPA and SAT scores to get in, but I would say that leadership in EC's is more important to Wharton admissions than anything else. Business isn't about smarts, it's about ambition (yeah jon tear me up for that) and someone who has no leadership may be trying to fit the square peg in the round hole.</p>