Hoping to transfer to MIT!!

<p>hoping to transfer to one of these schools that i was rejected from Freshman year. I was going to transfer as a freshman, but decided to stay at U of Chicago. I think i got rejected b/c my essays could have been better ( that is what I get for listening to my friends and brother)..I didn't spend much time on them because i thought.. well lets just say he convince me that good essay or not id be a sure bet...obviously not lol..if anyone could evaluate my chances that would be great.</p>

<p>College:</p>

<p>Cum GPA: 3.915
Credits: 70 after this semester
College: University of Chicago
Major: Eco
Will be transferring as a junior
Clubs: Black Student Union, Student Board of Academic Integrity, LEAD, UChicago Investment Management Club
Internships: Goldman Sachs Scholar, Morgan Stanley Insight Programme, Citadel Investment Group-Event Driven/Relative Value intern</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning: 2290 (on 2400 scale) and 1540 (on 1600 scale)
SAT Subjects: Math 2c: 770 and Literature: 740
GPA: 3.87 uw dont know weighted
Ransk: 9/330
AP: (place score in parenthesis): USH(4) ECON(5) FRENCH(5) CALCAB(4) WH(5) CHEM (3 Yikes!)
ECs: Soccer 4 years (3 year varsity), Basketball 4 years (4 year varsity), Ran track for my High school and broke two school records 100m and 800m, chess club 4 years, tutoring and out-of-school volunteering, NHS member
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, American Math Competition school winner
Family ties:None
Ethnicity: URM
HOOK: Dad is an Ambassador
Anti Hook- income 200k+</p>

<p>I am considering a career in Finance so i am looking at Harvard (rejected as Freshman), Yale (rejected as Freshman), Stanford (rejected as Freshman), (did not apply as freshman -->) Penn Wharton, Cornell AEM, Dartmouth, MIT</p>

<p>out of curiosity, what dont you like about uchicago? btw, i got into uchicago and planning on attending. i heard some negative stuff about uchicago but i would like to know more personal stories as well.. it will be much appreciated</p>

<p>My kid has been accepted at MIT for class of 2013. However, I am thinking it might be better ecomonically for her to stay in local college (3rd tier) which has has full-ride and transfer to MIT in her JR/SR year. What do you think? What are the chance that my kid will be accepted as a tranfer student from 3rd tier school?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>^^Not likely. I wouldn't try pulling something like that. Transfer admisssions is much harder. Frankly, if finances are that tough then you are better off deferring for a year and then studying for placement tests so he can get out of as many GIR's as possible. But passing placement tests can be tough and unpredictable.</p>

<p>Also, if you're transferring from a 3rd tier school, it's likely that MIT won't accept many of the credits. Even if you were transferring from Berkeley, likely they wouldn't accept anything beyond GIR's.</p>

<p>Yeah, depending on a transfer is extremely tough - even for students who were accepted before. Also, MIT is very hard on transfer credit.</p>

<p>to the OP:</p>

<p>You have a great chance to transfer anywhere with your 3.91 GPA at U. of Chicago (although you have to think whether it really would be worth to transfer.) It doesn't get any better than U. of Chicago--especially in economics.</p>

<p>Wow that's a pretty phenomenal GPA for a difficult school like UChicago.</p>

<p>Deferring enrollment and self-studying for GIRs actually sounds like it might be the best option for you. She might lose some of the college experience, but self-study is largely superior in education value. OpenCourseWare makes this even easier -- she'll still be able to "attend lecture" and read supplementary material, rather than just reading the textbook. Though even just reading through the textbooks used in MIT classes ought to make studying for the gaps in the material for placement exams quite doable.</p>

<p>(I'm personally starting to highly regret having taken two years of calculus rather than just reading Apostol's or Spivak's Calculus on my own.)</p>

did you transfer?

^highly doubt you are gonna get an answer to an 8-year-old post…