<p>I'm going into my sophomore year at the University of Pittsburgh and I'm thinking of transferring to UNC for business my junior year. </p>
<p>College GPA: 3.71
Credits (current, anticipated when I transfer): 49, 82
High School GPA: 3.60
ACT: 33
ECs: Parliamentary Debate, Internet Store, Pathfinders (tour guide), some business club (I wasn't that interested in business my freshman year)
OOS</p>
<p>How strong of an applicant will I be when I apply and what more can I do to be better, besides getting a 4.0. Thanks.</p>
<p>I think you have a strong chance especially with your high GPA. Average GPA of transfer students is 3.45 and OOS transfers are admitted at ~38% compared with ~20% of freshman OOS applicants. Also, there is not a cap on OOS transfers (unlike 18% for freshman applicants). </p>
<p>Are these gen eds or business classes? If your trying to transfer in you’d probably need to show that you are successful in intro econ, business, stats classes.</p>
<p>See link below (especially at the bottom) for more info about transfer student stats:</p>
<p>Edit: Actually I can’t link that site because it requires a login to UNC’s alumni association but let me know if you want more info!</p>
<p>I’m taking mostly gen ed classes except my grades in Macroecon was an A-, micro was an A and stats was an A. I’ll probably be in Pitt’s business school next semester but I will be taking intermediate econ, stats and chinese this semester.</p>
<p>And any additional information would be very welcome. I think Kenan-Flager is terrific and it is one of my top choices, along with Michigan’s Ross. I would really appreciate it if you can give me those transfer stats. Thanks!</p>
<p>Yeah, these are really clear, both image quality wise and details. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as detailed as this. Thanks so much for these.</p>
<p>Why are you thinking of transfering. My son was accepted at Pitt. If it was a closer he might have enrolled since Pitt offered Honors College and some scholarship money.</p>
<p>Katz really is not that good, outside of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania, job opportunities are not that abundant. I’m in the honors college and have scholarship money but I want an academic upgrade. Pitt is more known for its Medical School and the hard sciences rather than business. I kind of want a place that has a better business environment.</p>
<p>Anthony,</p>
<p>Just one thing (not sure if anyone else mentioned it). UNC-CH requires that junior transfer students spend 1 semester in the liberal arts program before being able to apply to Kenan-Flagler School of Business. Just something to keep in mind.</p>
<p>Yeah I know but thanks.</p>
<p>Transfer students rarely get into Kenan-Flagler. If you really want to do business, than I would take that into consideration when making your decision.</p>
<p>I was a business student at a Top 50 business program at a top private university in the Southeast. I had a near perfect GPA in all of my courses, including all of my business courses from my school. I transferred to UNC-CH and starting out in 200-400 level courses was not really helpful with adjusting to the different academic policies. Public schools are a lot different than small schools like Pitt, takes a bit of time (at least a semester) to get adjusted to UNC’s larger-class settings and emphasis on grade-deflation, which does not help with your GPA, which you need a HIGH GPA your first semester if you want a shot at KF (3.5+), which sounds not too hard, but is pretty hard obtaining at UNC.</p>
<p>I ended up not getting into KF along with many other hopeless transfer students and had to change my major. Alas, I have taken a longer path but plan on getting my MBA student and pursuing a long career in Marketing.</p>
<p>Hope that helps! Feel free to send me a private message.</p>
<p>Bruins,</p>
<p>Not doubting you or anything, but you had a near perfect GPA and were rejected from Kenen-Flagler? I’m asking because I will be applying this fall, as an OOS student with a 3.87 GPA (and good extra currics). Any idea what the average GPA is for transfer students to Kenen-Flagler?</p>
<p>Yes all of my friends who transferred from respected universities we’re also denied admissions to the BSBA. You really need more than one semester to get your GPA up there.</p>
<p>KF does not really take your past academic success into consideration, even though it states it is “considered”. They are very cocky about their program and the person interviewed me basically down talked my school which is a top 50 school in the country. I’m very bitter toward Kenan-Flagler and if I chose to go to MBA school in the state of NC, it’s gonna be at Fuqua. Though I think I had enough of NC.</p>
<p>3.5 GPA is the average. Though people have been admitted with GPAs as low as 2.9-3.0 (minorities, harder majors like Mathematics) but I’d say transfers need to really bring it since students who entered UNC as freshman have three semesters to raise their GPA. Most people do not perform the best during their first semester, UNC is very challenging academically and you can study all you want, it does not guarantee you any A’s in classes.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK!</p>
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