<p>High School Stats:
24 ACT (retaking in February)
3.93 UW GPA
Class rank: 43/520 (top 8%)
10 Honors/AP Courses
ECs:
Football - freshman and sophomore year
Worked at a movie theater from January 2009-January 2010
Volunteered at the Arizona Attorney General's Office (40 hours)
Volunteered at Phoenix Children's Hospital (only 8 hours)
Currently working at Discover Financial Services</p>
<p>I was accepted into Loyola Chicago and am looking to go there for a year. In my first year, I'm going to join 2-3 clubs, volunteer at my church, and participate in an internship that concerns my major.</p>
<p>After my first year, I'm hoping to transfer into either Chicago or Northwestern. If not those, then I will settle for NYU.I would continue to participate in EC's here.</p>
<p>I would then like to stay at that school, whichever it is, for 1-2 years, then transfer into an ivy league.</p>
<p>I am going for a finance and economics major, so I figured if I want to compete with the big boys, I need to go to a top school.</p>
<p>Highly unlikely because your reasons for transferring are primarily based on prestige (“settling” for NYU??) Anyways, transferring twice will most likely fail, as colleges seem to have doubts about why a student wants to transfer AGAIN.</p>
<p>I suggest thinking more about the actual reasons as to WHY you want to attend specific schools, rather than “to compete with the big boys, I need to go to a top school.”</p>
<p>Your plans seem very far fetched…anything IS achievable…but things never go as you want them to at most times, so very high expectations and unreasonable speculations can be disastrous. For the schools that you have in sight, I’d say be prepared to work hard in college to maintain a high GPA(preferably 3.8+) and also try to raise your ACTs by at least 8 points. Your low ACT score sends wrong signals about your high school transcript and I hope you have high scores on the AP Exams.</p>
<p>NYU is a good school, don’t get me wrong. I would love to go there, but I believe if I was not accepted into NU or Chicago with my predicted credentials then I would probably get into NYU. You guys keep telling me that I’m aiming too high…should I aim low? Where is the logic?</p>
<p>People are saying you’re aiming high because transferring into NYU Stern is trying to transfer into the most competitive programs at NYU. It isn’t exactly “settling”. Each NYU division has varying amounts of room for transfer students, and Stern has the least amount of seats for transfer students.</p>
<p>If you really want to leave Loyola, you would have to set up a list of reaches and matches. Are you still in HS?</p>
<p>Transferring twice is a pain in the neck. Not to mention, there’s also a possibility you will lose credits along the way AND some colleges have residency requirements for graduation. (A certain number of credits taken in residence at that college.)</p>
<p>missamericanpie, I understand NYU’s Stern program is highly ranked, but I’m fairly confident that I can do what it takes to get into NYU after my first 2 years at Loyola. Confidence is required of anyone who wants to go to a top ranked school, correct?</p>
<p>And I only wanted to transfer once and apply to a different school for grad (if I believe I can get into a better school at that point). I don’t want to transfer TWICE during undergrad as I stated in my original post.</p>