<p>High School Stats:
GPA: 3.2 UW, 5 AP classes, 5 IB classes, EXTREME upward trend!
SAT: 2130- 680 CR 760 W 690 M
ACT: 34 composite
ECs: nothing major but several part time jobs (one i worked for two years an average about 20 hours per week (summer and during the school year), one during the summer average 12 hours week (i was 15), other one was on top of the one i had for two years, had it during the summer and averaged about 8 hours per week)
3 years Model UN
3 years XC (varsity) (XC team won academic all state one year)
2 years JV tennis
1 year math club (I cofounded and was VP)
1 year Sparrow Club
1 year green school club
AMC 12 participant (2nd place school-nothing too spectacular)
area math competition second place calculus division
+ about 200 volunteer hours</p>
<p>College: 4.0 GPA for four quarters
on the pre-engineering track, but plan to do a chemical engineering/physics double major
Activities: member of SWE and Engineers Without Borders
did some research with a professor...
participate in a few intrumurals (also run a lot of 5ks locally)
write for the school newspaper
member of alpha lambda delta honor society...</p>
<p>i think that's about it...</p>
<p>I go to a huge state school, and am looking for something a bit smaller. Even though I'm going to be a ChE major, I want there to be some humanities side to my studies also..any suggestions?</p>
<p>Well, I could be good just about anywhere, just not somewhere in the middle of nowhere unless the student body at least decently sized…oh, preferably not in the south, but i’m open to suggestions. Greek life is not really important to me.</p>
<p>You have very impressive stats I don’t really see any school being no chance for you. Obviously trying CIT and MIT, some of the ivies like princeton and cornell. Also look at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>GPA wise you would be fine applying anywhere. But it seems like a lot of the top schools want you to show some “other” reason for transferring other than just wanting to go to a “higher” school. So figure out WHY you want to transfer and you should be good.</p>
<p>BTW, Princeton doesn’t take transfers and ATM Harvard isn’t taking any (for how long, no one knows)</p>
<p>Reaches: MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, WashU St louis, Cal Berkeley, UCLA, Northwestern</p>
<p>Safeties: Georgia Tech, Purdue, Penn State, NC State </p>
<p>^^all of these are TOP engineering schools, especially in chemical engineering. Even the “safeties” are top schools and not easy to get in to, but you should have a good shot. Thats what my long list would look like if I were you…</p>
<p>as a transfer, really almost anyone can have a chance. what you have to do is have valid reasons why you’re transferring, why you want to go to school Y and why your school (X) is not giving you what you need but Y can!</p>
<p>convince these schools you want to go there beyond a shadow of a doubt, give a compelling and interesting story (it doesn’t need to be traumatic or heroic, mine was about my love of wordplay/puzzles). </p>
<p>penn is a great (16% of transfers accepted) but other schools with good engineering are: carnegie mellon (13% acceptance for transfer), cornell (29%), now I know it’s not as “prestigious” but the university of illinois at urbana-champaign has pretty good engineering (47%)</p>