<p>Post here if you're applying to Ivies for the class of '11!</p>
<p>im trying for columbia college.. whoo!</p>
<p>Haha, what school are you at now? I'm applying there too. Fu or Columbia?</p>
<p>Yay Wharton and Columbia SEAS!</p>
<p>Brown, Columbia, U Penn, and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Thinking about applying for like Spring 09, prob Cornell, Yale, Brown...</p>
<p>I got into Columbia and Cornell way back when I was a senior in High School 7 years ago, but I didn't go right to college, took time off, and low and behold 7 years later here I am...</p>
<p>My thoughts are this though (currently going to a state school in NY): For many careers, it matters most where you go to Graduate School. AND, most top grad schools do not want 100% of their class to be from Ivy Undergrads... They often have unofficial quota's for admitting students from Public Schools...</p>
<p>SO, the moral of the story is... If you can get 4.0 from a "lesser" school, do GREAT on GMAT/GRE/LSAT/ or MCAT, and do some other outstanding things as well, you might actually have a BETTER chance at getting into Yale Law School or Harvard Med School or Wharton Business School, than if you get a 3.0 from Columbia Undergrad... and look identical to the thousands of other Ivy Undergrad students applying to those top Grad Schools...</p>
<p>Plus, finishing out undergrad at a state school is cheaper and probably MUCH less stressful...</p>
<p>Just a thought! I'm still undecided myself...</p>
<p>I'm probably going to be trying for Columbia, but in no way am I expecting to get in. I just love New York too much!</p>
<p>Stats anyone?</p>
<p>anyone applying to stanford? i know it's not ivy league, but it's top caliber</p>
<p>Harvard, Columbia and Georgetown (not technically an Ivy but for all intents and purposes...)</p>
<p>I'm at Santa Monica College, an excellent California Community College. Currently have a 4.0 GPA and work part-time. Will be applying to Columbia School of General Studies (since I have a very unique educational background) as well as Berkeley (and perhaps Davis and Brooklyn College as backup schools).</p>
<p>Stats:
4.0 GPA, 24 credits so far, from State School, majoring in Math or History, with minor in Chinese</p>
<p>1998/99 standardized tests
SAT I: 800 verbal, 710 math
SAT II: Math 2C: 790, Chemistry: 780, Am. Hist: 800, Writing: 770
AP Amer Hist: 5, AP Calc AB: 5, AP Calc BC subscore 3 (I slacked off :)</p>
<p>History article published in the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, peer-reviewed professional academic journal, in June 2006</p>
<p>Worked for Symantec, now work for Princeton Review (2370/2400 on last SAT diagnostic, not to brag, but... yes to brag :) too bad it doesn't go on my transcript)</p>
<p>Prob doing summer program in Shanghai, China this year too...</p>
<p>And I don't want to live in NYC again just yet, so prob would apply to Cornell, Yale, Brown, and/or Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Does anyone know, do they let many people in as transfers for Junior Year? Would prob be worth it to do an extra year even if they didn't take all the credits...</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>School: University of Texas (Plan II/Business Honors)
Ethnicity: Chinese
GPA: 4.0
ACT: 34
SAT: 1460, 2200
SAT II: Math 2 800, Chinese 750, US History 750
AP: 5's on Bio, US History, Government, English Comp, 4's on Human Geo, Calc BC, Eco, World History
HS Rank: 13/741 (Average: 90)
ECs: Texas Ultimate Frisbee Team (9th in nation/589), Senate of College Councils (Senator), HBA Intramural Basketball Team Captain, Honors Business Association, BBoy Breakdancing Club</p>
<p>Applying to: HYS, Wharton, Columbia</p>
<p>Long shot at all of them :(</p>
<p>Cornell and Penn</p>
<p>I'm applying to Brown & Columbia. It will be fun.</p>
<p>i-t: I think most everyone is a long shot.... Yale's site says they accept 25-30 undergrad transfers from 600-800 applicants, which is a 3-4% admit rate.</p>
<p>But look at the brightside! If you even have a shot at all, you are basically in a win-win situation.</p>
<p>My sister is a Senior at Brown. Yes, that name will open a lot of doors right out of college. But 5 or 10 or 15 years after graduation, what matters much more is your <strong>actual resume,</strong> what you have accomplished, and possibly where you went to Grad School....</p>
<p>And if you can get a 4.0 at a mid-tier School and score in the 700+ range on standardized tests, you have as good a shot at long-term success as any Ivy Student- So go for it, apply away, but don't stress too much about the outcome.</p>
<p>That is my rant of wisdom and philosophical greatness for the day...</p>
<p>Thanks, man! Does anyone know whether you can transfer in and then be with the freshman class? I want the freshman experience rather than the sohpomore one. My age would coincide with the incoming class</p>
<p>Nope - if you've spent your freshman year at a college you must transfer in as a sophomore. I suppose you could be a super senior and have a fifth year. Remember though, it's likely you'll attend the freshman orientation along with the incoming class.</p>
<p>would I be a fit at MIT with my stats?</p>
<p>Well, I'll be applying as a transfer to both Penn CAS (PPE) and Cornell CAS (Government). I was tempted to apply ILR instead, since I'd have a better shot at getting in. But I decided that if I was going to be transferring, it may as well be for a program I wanted. With that in mind, I fully expect to be rejected from both of them, as other than my college GPA and courseload (4.0, half being upper level electives), and perhaps my essays (which I can do quite well, or so I've been told by others), I would be considered a weak applicant. Of course, the college component is what matters most, and there is a degree of randomness to the whole process, so I figure I may as well apply. The Ivy name doesn't impress me much, but the school's environments and academic offerings impress me quite a bit.</p>
<p>For example, Penn has a PPE major, and allows said students to take a course at the law school, and sometimes submatriculate senior year. Plus, the fact that they offer Gujari as a language is a big plus in my books, since I find the region of India where it is spoken to be especially politically interesting. </p>
<p>For Cornell, I love the broad range of classes available to government majors, such as Postcommunist Transitions, Theories of Empire, and Nationalism in the Arab World. My school could never match such diversity in offerings, as outside the sciences, most departments are grossly neglected. And I think they offer Serbian (or, as they might call it, Serbo-Croatian), at least at an introductory level. </p>
<p>Based on the more relaxed distribution/gen ed requirements, the slightly more interesting language offerings, the urban location, the Jewish population, and the social atmosphere, Penn CAS is my top choice. Frankly, it and Claremont Mckenna are the schools that would seem to be the best fits overall for my needs.</p>
<p>Of course, other than the two Ivies, I'm looking at other options. I'm definitely applying to Claremony Mckenna, Rice, Emory, and WUSTL. I may apply to one or two more schools, potentially among them Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, or U Rochester.</p>