<p>I just finished my freshman yar at penn state.
Im anticipating a 3.81 after next semester.
My eccs are:
bank teller
secretary of sife
president of investment club
econ peer tutor</p>
<p>What are my chances at stern?</p>
<p>Hello, Im a stern transfer myself.</p>
<p>From what I know Stern LOVES math courses. My GPA was lower than urs but I just loaded up on the Math courses in my one year at my previous college.
Ur gpa is pretty nice but if you could post which classes u took it’ll help out alot</p>
<p>Hm, mind chancing me too?</p>
<p>Here are my stats:
Current School: USC (CA)
Majors: Business Administration (BS) (Marshall) and Sociology (BA) (CLAS)
1st semester GPA: 3.35
2nd semester GPA: 3.65
Summer Classes (At a CC, will not count towards USC GPA): 4.0 (Microecon & Intro to Sociology)
Based on my classes for next semester, my guess for my GPA this fall will be somewhere in the 3.7-4.0 range.
SAT: 610CR, 730M, 750W (1340/2090)
SAT2: 760 Math 2, 560 Bio, 640 Chem, 530 French
ACT: 33 (32 E, 34 M, 31 R, 35 S, 30 E/W, 9 Essay)
GPA: 4.22 (W)/4.3 (HS did some wacky calculation) (if anyone wants an explanation, I can explain in another post, lol)
GPA (UW) (recalculated for a 4.0 scale): 9: 3.68, 10: 2.94, 11: 3.42, 12: 3.78 (most classes were AP/Honors for all 4 years)
ECs: Treasurer of Invisible Children Club, Art Editor of Literary Magazine, Member of Concert Committee (planning), Member of an organization that creates a yearly networking event for freshmen; PLANNING: join 1 or 2 business clubs this fall</p>
<p>Tame any expectation to get in easily.</p>
<p>NYU Stern is the cream of the crop. The school is on par with Wharton for IB placement.</p>
<p>I was rejected this year with a 4.0 GPA through 2 years at the University of Tennessee. I started my own investment club, worked throughout my time in college at a prestigious technology company and did volunteer work.</p>
<p>I felt that two disadvantages for me were the prestige of my current school and the fact that I was trying to transfer as a junior.</p>
<p>akalboy’s school prestige is fine, though pennstater’s may put him at a disadvantage. pennstater has decent extracurriculars, whereas akalboy’s are somewhat subpar. Both of you need more volunteer work.</p>
<p>I’ll be frank: you’re both going to get rejected. I’m willing bet money on it - not because I’m upset about not getting in, but because the competition is absolutely insane. You’re going up against students from Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc. who have higher GPA’s, better standardized test scores, better high school GPA’s, tremendous extracurriculars (not just starting an investment club, but generating tens of thousands of dollars worth of capital), work experience (in finance) and volunteer work (lots of it).</p>
<p>My suggestions would be to make your profile look like the one above. Start a club and pool LOTS of investors. Get some finance experience, and be able to write about some volunteer work on your application. Your essay will need to be killer (keep it to two pages, and have a damn good reason for wanting to transfer). Find other people who transferred, and find out how they were successful. You do all of that stuff, and you’ll have a chance. Even then, it won’t be good.</p>
<p>No u 2 wont necessarily get rejected. </p>
<p>Bankersball I never had a club with investors, have no finance experience and I got in as a transfer and can major in Finance or whatever I want. What uve stated will make the op and the other guy stronger candidates…but just about every other candidate has these kinds of stuff…</p>
<p>Ill stick to what i said b4…Stern LOVES math ppl. If you show strong quantitative skills by taking hard upper lvl math courses that will help you alot. Secondly Your ESsAYS are crucial. My reason was that my college had no compsci/info systems/ finance classes/courses and that was what i wanted to do Finance+Info systems.PLus my rec was prolly really good. The prof who wrote it for me was a math professor and an MIT grad who honestly thought i was a really good student.</p>
<p>Yes EC’s are nice…but honestly for B-schools IN MY OPINION theyre being kinda overrated. A guy from my HS got into wharton, and he had no flashy EC’s. Just solid grades, good recs, and some luck ;)</p>
<p>Definitely Apply and try to do as much as you can.</p>
<p>3.8 +
with an A in Calc or higher level math</p>
<p>thats what i needed for internal transfer into stern</p>
<p>Why would someone at Wharton, Princeton, or Harvard transfer to NYU? Especially someone at Wharton…</p>
<p>^ yea i was wondering the same thing… 
i mean, im sure it may happen from time to time, but i doubt that its often… spec wharton</p>
<p>@akalboy,</p>
<p>what was your academic background prior to transferring to Stern? did you get any results from other schools? </p>
<p>i just finished my first year at UCSD as a joint math-econ major. seeing the few recruiters, i’m thinking about whipping up some transfer applications. my prospects are usc-marshall, cmu-tepper, stern, and maybe even uchicago.</p>
<p>I didn’t transfer to Stern, lol. I haven’t even applied yet xD</p>
<p>sorry alkalboy, that was an accident. my question above was intended for som1!</p>
<p>pennstater, I was just curious: What are your reasons for wanting to transfer out of PSU?
Also how would you describe your experience at PSU? Were you at University Park?</p>
<p>Do you have any backup schools that you are applying for? What is your major?</p>
<p>Hello hencc</p>
<p>At my old college I took a **** load of math courses. math was always my thing so it wasnt really a problem doing so. I had even taken linear algebra in HS (im an international so we do alot more higher math here) I also took a higher lvl proof based class. Basically I was a math major and cs minor (there was no cs major) at my old college. And eventhough my GPA was slightly lower than those who normally transfer becoz i had A’s in all those tough math courses and it worked in my favour.</p>
<p>And I was waitlisted from stern when I applied as a HS senior, dunno if that had an effect or not.</p>
<p>And no I didnt apply to any other schools because I worried that my GPA wasnt gonna be enough There are alot of other fantastic schools out there that I woudlve tried like chicago, NU( a girl actually transferred from my old college there) etc but at the end of the day if i had gotten into all of them and Stern I wouldve chosen stern anyway lol so it doesnt make a difference. Though I KINDA REGRET not appliying to UPenn cas (which was my no1 choice in school) but again for finance, ibanking and that kinda stuff and im not talking about just the recruiting oppurtunities but about the whole ‘business experience’
Stern> Upenn cas and almost every other college in the nation (save for wharton and a few other obvious school). So im still really happy :)</p>
<p>Well my reaosn for transferring is cuz im not at Upark yet, im at abington. Ill be at upark for my junior and senior year, but like for ibanking penn state is not the place.</p>
<p>My back up schools are unc,usc, maybe cornell.</p>
<p>cornell ur back up? :S</p>
<p>I would say having cornell as ur back is a BAD IDEA unless you have a GT. (if u dont take into account GT it is as hard , maybe harder to get in as a transfer)</p>
<p>what is GT?</p>
<p>guaranteed transfer. I think ppl who apply ED but arnt accepted are offered this (to keep a 3.5 gpa in college and if they do they are guaranteed a spot in cornell)</p>
<p>< another Penn Stater business major thinking about transferring out.<br>
too many Smeal grads end up in the corporate world. (think biz dept at J&J, Boeing, etc)
I’m more of the IB/Private Finance type of person. and PSU just isnt gonna cut it.</p>
<p>although NYU Stern isn’t what I’m aiming for, it’s definitely on my list.</p>
<p>im a wharton student considering transferring to stern for fall 2010 because of financial reasons. how is nyu with aid? i’m hoping to get merit-based aid.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure NYU is notorious for giving horrible financial aid.</p>