How do you like these apples... and by these apples I mean my chances. Thanks :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Transfer</p>

<p>Soph at Ithaca College, Journalism major (was going to be an econ minor although never officially declared - took three courses though)
College GPA 3.684, 3.7 if you include a Calc course I took in college</p>

<p>Switching major to business/econ
Applying to Penn, NYU Stern, UVA, UMich, UNC, Cornell, Maybe Applying to: Chicago, Northwestern, Texas, and Brown (I hope I get into at least one of these schools)
I like most of the essays I've written so far... pretty good rec's (I'm using journalism prof, econ prof, hs gifted teacher who I did a ton of ECs for and had for 5 years, and another guy that I'm using just for Penn)</p>

<p>My biggest weaknesses I think are Sat II's and I don't have the pre-req's for some of the schools</p>

<p>High School GPA: 4.0 u/w (don't know weighted)
Class Rank: 1 of about 400
Sat 1380 M 720/ V 660
II's IC: 660 WR: 620 US His: 600 (my weakest area I think)
Took 5 AP Courses (most you can take without taking two languages but only took 1 of the tests) 4 on AP Gov, and I took a college Calc course so had no reason to take that test... other three I didn't want to take</p>

<p>ECs (I only listed the most important)
College
TV Station (reporter, assistant producer, promo concepts)
Radio Station (sports and news casts, disc jockey, color analyst, sports talk show host, halftime and pregame reports, reporter - note the last 5 aren't on a weekly basis as we take turns)
IC Republicans (Vice Chair of On Campus Affairs) - some have told me to avoid politics on my app?</p>

<p>High School (did Y swimming this summer)
YMCA Swimming - 3 years in high school + last summer (2003 + 2004 Long Course Nationals Qualifier and Participant)
HS Swimming, Soccer, and Track - lettered at least 1 year in each
Academic Quiz Team
Stock Market Team
Senior Class Play - Actor</p>

<p>Awards (listed the most important/relevant)
Academic Quiz Team - County Champs - 12th grade
Stock Market Team - Regional Champs - Fall of 12th Grade
Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials Scholarship Recipient
President's Scholarship Recipient, Ithaca College
School's High Scorer on National Math Test -10th grade</p>

<p>Volunteer Work
Speaker on adjusting to College Life for Careers Skills Class at HS: 03/04, 04/05 schools years
Volunteer Swimming Coach - HS: December-January (04/05 season) </p>

<p>Safety's, Matches, Reaches?</p>

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<p>Bumping123</p>

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<p>Not a huge fan of crickets... and yet that's the only sound I'm hearing in this thread... :&lt;/p>

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<p>Penn would be an uber reach</p>

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<p>My bologne has a first name.. it's b-u-m-p</p>

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<p>Why didn't you apply to some of these colleges as a freshman? A valedictorian at Ithaca College....</p>

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<p>I really liked their journalism program. I've realized that I don't want to be a journalist and now I want to get the hell out of here (Unless I end up at Cornell). :) I'm just really curious since it's harder to figure out transfer admissions, IMO. And yes, I get fruststrated when I think about how probably would've had a better chance at most of these schools as a freshman.</p>

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<p>Hmm. Does Ithaca give you major $$? I think you could've gotten into most (if not ALL) of these schools as a freshman!</p>

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<p>I'm getting about 14k per year in merit aid. </p>

<p>Oh yeah, I mostly applied to schools that had strong journalism programs and I could swim at (which I chose not to even do - a mistake looking back on it, worst part is I becamse a much better swimmer that could've probably swam on teams at better schools after most application deadlines were over). But I honestly chose it because it has, IMO, a very good journalism program (due to award-winning radio and tv stations that you can be active with as a fresman - I wanted to do broadcast).</p>