Hi! I’m a rising sophomore from a Top 5 LAC looking to apply for transfer to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Georgetown and Tufts for my junior year. Here are my stats:
High School:
GPA: school doesn’t use GPA system but was a C+/B- average in a highly competitive school until final exams where I got almost all As
Rank: School doesn’t rank but around top 40%
Subjects: A-Levels Physics, Mathematics, Economics and Literature (all As); General Paper (B) and Project Work (A)
SATs: 2340 superscored; 760 CR, 780 WR, 800 Math; 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 760 Bio E, 720 Lit
School type: A top school in Asia
College:
Current GPA: 3.85
Honors: College Scholar (for two semesters)
Courses taken: one year of Arabic (A), Politics of the Middle East (A-), Writing seminar on Italy (A), other electives
Major: International Studies with Middle East focus (major), Political Science (possible minor)
Extracurriculars: Acapella, Muslim Students Association, Model UN, Badminton, employee at a student-run food business, planning to volunteer with newly settled Syrian and Iraqi refugees near my college.
Reasons for transferring: The Middle East studies dept here is very small and there isn’t a lot of resources for my research interests. I’ve to stay for sophomore year to take advantage of the excellent Arabic program here. Also I prefer to be in a city environment rather than a rural one.
I would like to hear your honest opinions!