<p>Hehe. This is a chances thread. Tricked ya into clicking. But seriously, I've been making my list and I like various schools a lot but I want to approach this more realistically. I want to really concentrate on the applications I do complete for specific schools, and I want to guarantee I am out of here for Fall 2007. Please read my stats and label my school choices accordingly as </p>
<p>Big Reach / Reach / Slight Reach / Match / Safetyish Match / Safety</p>
<p>And be honest...I don't really care if yall say many of them are big reaches, but I need to limit these and get realistic with my choices.</p>
<p>STATS:
4.0 at CC with honors courses
Classes - History I/II, Econ I/II, Acct. I/II, Govt. I/II, Calc I/II/III, Physics I/II, Statistics, French I/II, Business Speech, Computer Science...
2220 SAT 750/740/740 SAT IIs
32 ACT (will retake as many times as possible until I get 35+)
Vice Prez Student Govt, Vice Prez Honors Program, Press Reporter Business Club, Member Top College Choir, Singer will be sending in demos, been working 35 hours/week for last 3 years.
No awards! I've been in some vocal competitions and gotten to semi-finals and I hope to expand on that in the fall with choir/EC activities. I've never done much for EC activities in high school (Academic Decathalon!) and had a 3.3 with all honors courses - I was a slacker.</p>
<p>Amherst
Brown
Bowdoin
Columbia
Cornell (CAS Econ)
Emory (Goizueta)
Georgetown (McDonough)
NYU (Stern)
Northwestern
Swarthmore
University of Chicago :)
UT Austin (McCombs)
Wesleyan
Vassar</p>
<p>One final factor that will probably be very important is that I WILL NOT be applying for financial aid to any school except UT Austin...go figure. Most all schools are selective and I want to make sure I'm not thrown out because they don't want to foot the bill for me. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>you didn't trick me, i knew this was another (do you think i can get in thread)</p>
<p>well, i'll boost your confidence here. You are a very competitive applicant at all schools out there :), best of luck to you my fellow transfer friend.</p>
<p>Based on your other posts, dude, I think you know your chances are excellent. Obviously write good essays, and try to make your recommendations as strong as possible. Your SAT scores are stellar, as is your GPA. It looks like you have done everything in your power to make yourself a viable candidate. So do what the rest of us are doing: wait, apply, then wait some more. No one here can tell you anything you don't already know.</p>
<p>laneb2005 - I thank you for your support, but I am trying to narrow my list...so labeling them will help me realize what most people think which will help me cross some off. I think 14 is too many and I won't be able to concentrate.</p>
<p>thanks bball Cornell is one I am really unsure about because I have heard it is ridiculous, but Columbia is going to be my "main reach." What do you think a/b the others?</p>
<p>There are no safeties on your list, imo, except possibly UT-Austin, which I'm unfamiliar with re chances for an in-state. You are a very strong applicant, but if you want to be certain of a transfer, you need to add a safety you like - you know the definition ;) - high acceptance rate, your stats at the top 25%ile, rolling admission would be nice. Your stats are not the problem; you need a school with high acceptance rate if you want a true safety. You may not need it, but that's what safeties are for - "just in case."</p>
<p>40% is pretty good, brand. That might make it a safety if not a safetyish match. Just be sure to dig a little into that stat - some schools appear to have high acceptance rates, but it's because they have automatic agreeements etc. with some schools (probably not Wes, but just making the point).</p>
<p>thanks I got the info from Collegeboard.com but haven't had any luck finding Wesleyan's common data set...the only thing that sucks is at LACs particularly, their transfer rates seem to be very random, so I understand where you have doubts, as do I. </p>
<p>It has also been suggested to me to go with my original choice and apply AEM to Cornell, if anything. I think there have been threads on this already, so if someone could point me in that direction or fill me in, is CAS Econ or AEM a more practical choice for transfer students.</p>
<p>UNC would be a safety for you, I think. I don't know how CC's are looked upon though, especially for an out-of-state candidate.</p>
<p>Afterthought: I think if you narrowed your list down to 10, and worked really hard on all of the applications, the fact that you're applying to 10 is a safety in itself. I can't justify this mathematically, but I would say that being rejected by 10/10 schools on your final list with your stats is highly unlikely. Also, don't apply to a school that you KNOW you don't want to go to. I've been there - trust me, it's not fun and not worth the effort.</p>
<p>Thanks laneb I was checking out UNC and if I applied there, it'd be to the business school. So I'm not sure how much harder it is to get into, but I'm sure it is.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice...There are several schools on there that I'm not "crazy" about, I just like. So maybe I'll try ordering them based on preference of attendance and then based on my chances to narrow it down. </p>
<p>If anybody has any other info like bball87 did, that was helpful. I wasn't aware that Cornell was SUCH a reach, but it looks like it's gotten very hard to transfer into so that will make me think again before transferring. I only want to have so many big reaches so I'm gonna cut some of them down.</p>
<p>your chances are good at most of those (cornell is really hard to get into as a transfer for anyone) just make sure you have all of the requirements for stern. you need financial and managerial accounting, macro and micro econ, a writing class, and calc 1 (not business calc). good luck.</p>
<p>thanks trace I think I'm gonna go with my gut and apply AEM...
I do have one question for those that have been helping me out -</p>
<p>Given this sudden change, I'm going to be taking Bio I/II now. But I've also planned on taking Physics I/II at the same time. If I don't do Physics then I'd take French I/II instead, but I wanted to take "rigorous" courses and Physics is supposedly the most difficult science at my CC. Which should I take?</p>
<p>as for UNC, you can't apply directly to the business school. you would be admitted as a pre-business student and you would have to apply for the business school after your first semester.</p>
<p>thx forgiven I actually realized after I posted that that I needed to complete English Comp 2 by the end of the coming fall semester, so I went with that instead of Physics. Oh well.</p>
<p>And I think I'm going to take the advice of one of the previous posters...my stats are quite good (try to be modest) so I don't think I'll get rejected by 10 schools (Lord please no), and I want to focus on my favorites. So here's what I've narrowed it down to, based on preference and what I would classify them as:</p>
<p>Brown - Big Reach
Columbia - Big Reach
Cornell (AEM) - Big Reach
Emory (Goizueta) - Match
Georgetown (McDonough) - Match
NYU (Stern) - Match
Northwestern - Match
Swat - Reach
Chicago - Reach
UT - safetyish match/match
Wesleyan - safetyish match/match</p>
<p>I got rid of Amherst, Bowdoin, and Vassar because I have to face up to the fact that most all transfers to those schools are:
1) ppl that applied and were waitlisted before
2) ppl from top colleges
3) ppl from other LACs</p>
<p>Although I love each of those schools (especially Bowdoin)...I think my chances OVERALL are better at major research universities because they will generally have more room and are nicer to us community college students. The fact that my friend from this very CC was accepted to Georgetown, Rice, UT with a lower GPA gives me confidence in the bigger universities compared to LACs. Still, I wanted to narrow my list down to 9 or 10 at the most. Any other recommendations?</p>
<p>I would say visit the schools you are considering your top choices. Maybe head up to NYC/CT/RI for a long weekend and actually visit and talk to some of the students there. It's not going to help your admission chances, obviously, but it might help you decide where you want to be the most.</p>