<p>Tis indeed frustrating. At least we might know by early June if there are even spots available for the waiting list kids.</p>
<p>Hi you guys, I was accepted as a transfer student from a community college, and i had a 3.2 college gpa. I was really surprised but thankful. i was also accepted into upenn so i have a decision to make on which one i should go to. Which one would you all recommend? And I’m majoring in economics</p>
<p>@lcarey: my god, you give me a lot of hope. if I were you I’d go to UChicago in a heartbeat. It is tied with Harvard, MIT, and Princeton, as the best uni to learn economics in America, while UPenn is a bit further down that list. any tips on why you think you got accepted?</p>
<p>Yea, well i think my gpa is actually something like 3.5. I believe it was my essay that sold both schools, i was so surprised i had to look at my whole application. I noticed everything was connected and i had one theme, my theme was diversity and i connected it with what each school principles were. Also i had great letters of rec from two professors. But don’t lose hope you can definitely do it, if i can trust me you can lol. If you have any question you can always ask me. Lol I’m so happy, i shoulda applied to columbia, thats my number one dream school. I guess ill just have to go to their graduate school.</p>
<p>Everybody who got in and has to opportunity to go to an ivy, go to the ivy. I’m not here to rag on my school, bc I like it here, but you probably won’t. Do you like reading 50 hours a week and writing another 15? Do you like spending all of your time inside? Do you wish to slowly watch yourself grow fat because of the sheer volume of time you have to spend sitting down? Do you want to watch your social life dwindle away and eventually be snuffed out? Do you wish to ruin your GPA? Do you wish to do something that requires a high college GPA, Law School, Med School, getting a job? Answer all these questions before even considering coming here and then go to Penn instead. Or Cornell. Or save your money and stay at your current school. This school is fantastic but it will make you miserable and alone, we really don’t have a great social life, and as much as you think you like work - you probably do not understand the sheer volume of work you will have to do here. College is a privileged time of increased freedom, acceptable debauchery, and proximate communities, you will probably never get an opportunity for these things again and by transfering here you give them up. There may be a social life in the dorms but you will be in I house, not the dorms, and will thus feel severed from the campus community (although I house is great). In short this school is like going to grad school early and you probably shouldn’t come here.</p>
<p>Everybody who got in and has to opportunity to go to an ivy, go to the ivy. I’m not here to rag on my school, bc I like it here, but you probably won’t. Do you like reading 50 hours a week and writing another 15? Do you like spending all of your time inside? Do you wish to slowly watch yourself grow fat because of the sheer volume of time you have to spend sitting down? Do you want to watch your social life dwindle away and eventually be snuffed out? Do you wish to ruin your GPA? Do you wish to do something that requires a high college GPA, Law School, Med School, getting a job? Answer all these questions before even considering coming here and then go to Penn instead. Or Cornell. Or save your money and stay at your current school. This school is fantastic but it will make you miserable and alone, we really don’t have a great social life, and as much as you think you like work - you probably do not understand the sheer volume of work you will have to do here. College is a privileged time of increased freedom, acceptable debauchery, and proximate communities, you will probably never get an opportunity for these things again and by transfering here you give them up. There may be a social life in the dorms but you will be in I house, not the dorms, and will thus feel severed from the campus community (although I house is great). In short this school is like going to grad school early and you probably shouldn’t come here.</p>
<p>^eeeek…that’s why Im going to Penn!</p>
<p>FYI: The tranfser acceptance rate this year must have been below 2%.</p>
<p>According to the Maroon, the University only accepted 20 transfer students this year (due to the large incoming first-year class). Assuming the same number of transfer applicants as last year, that’s a 2% acceptance rate. But applications probably rose (considering UChicago had a large increase and record amount of first-year applicants this admissions cycle.) So the transfer admit rate most likely was below 2%.</p>