<p>Okay I currently go to University of Chicago and I'm trying to transfer to Cornell, UPenn, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard mainly for financial reasons. (obviously on essays, I wrote about compelling academic reasons for transfer)</p>
<p>High School GPA: 3.8ish
SAT: 760/800/720 (one sitting, 2nd try)
SAT 2: Phys - 800 Math2 - 800 Chem - 780 (all one sitting/one try)</p>
<p>College GPA: 3.8
Classes Taken :
Fall: Analysis in R^n 1 (A-), Honors Physics 1 (A), Philosophical Pers. on Humanities (A)
Taking
Winter: Analysis in R^n 2, Honors Physics 2, Phil Per, Intermediate Mechanics
Expecting A, A, A-, A
Will take
Spring: Analysis in R^n 3, Honors Physics 3, Phil Per, Quantum Mechanics 1</p>
<p>Here are my two questions.
1. My philosophy (humanities) professor told me that he's writing a very strong recommendation. He basically says he wrote about how he went to Harvard for both undergrad and grad and taught at UChicago for 25 years and that he can certify that I'm just as competitive as any Harvard student. I'm wondering how big of an impact this can have on admission chances. One downside is that he tells me that the check box on commonapp goes against his philosophy (he believes it only disadvantages students) so that he is just going to cross it out and explain why he's not filling that part out. I also wanna know if it's relevant.</p>
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<li>My college advisor who filled the college official's report doesn't really know me personally and is kind of annoyed at me because I didn't give him enough time to fill the forms out. It's likely that he did not recommend me strongly. If both of my professor recommendations are excellent, is the information on college official's report relevant to admission chances for these schools I'm applying to? I hear that for many schools it's only used as a statement of good standing.</li>
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<p>And overall, assuming above average ECs (too lazy to write them all down)
what are my chances??</p>