<p>Im a freshman at UW Madison and its kind of sad to be thinking about this when classes havent even started, but i have to transfer to UPENN…specifically the Wharton school of business; the reason being that i want to find some intellectual equals and that i also want to add some clout to my resumes when i apply to some investment firm in wall street four years down the road. UW isnt bad…its just that i believe that i deserve better…though my higschool records indicate the contrary. I was a b+/a- average student untill my senior year, when i was put on probation for plagiarism and ended up with something near a 3.2 gpa. I didnt like the fact that i was surrounded by a group of humans with the intellectual capabilities of an ape, so i receded into my own world of interests and never paid much attention to school itself. The day i took my sat’s i was hungover and sleep deprived, and ended up getting a 1390. I never retook it, because my dad kept screaming at me in korean about how much a disgraceful score that was and i ended up wanting to give him hell. Now being in college however, I’m starting to regret the choices that i made, which consequently pushed me away in a wild detour from the life that i had originally planned for myself…sigh… Well here i am, trying to fix my reality into somethign that better aligns with my own ambitions. I navigated through former threads on this site, and discovered, to my relief, that wharton transfers didnt necessarily have impressive highschool records. My own conclusions after having made a thorough survey on a handful of successful Wharton transfers is this: </p>
<li>College GPA, recs, and Essays matter the most. </li>
<li>College EC’s are not too important, but stick to one or two that is actively involved in the college community and genuinely interests you. Try to indicate that you have the entrepreneural flair in you thru ur EC’s. </li>
<li>SAT I and II scores are not of primary concern.</li>
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<p>Agreed? What do you think?
So yeah…i think ill end my thread here before it becomes a sorry a** monologue about my own dismal plight. Chip in you guys. I’m welcoming any kind of advice.</p>
<p>P.S. anyone here considering applying to wharton or penn this year? lets keep in touch</p>