<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I am currently a 2nd year college student at a private university in Taiwan. I'm looking to transfer and finish my business bachelor degree in the U.S. next fall and I was wondering what were the chances of me getting into schools like UConn, UT, Pittsburgh, UW-Madison, UNC- Chapel Hill, or other well-known public state schools? </p>
<p>I have a 4.0 GPA so far and I have a 113 on my TOEFL. I ranked first out of my department in freshmen year and I've participated and won a couple of city-wide English competitions throughout high school. I also received a couple of art awards and placed in regional competitions when I was in elementary and junior high school, but I'm not sure if schools take my accomplishment from middle school into consideration when they look at my application? And how important is an applicant's volunteering experience? I've done some volunteering here and there like tutoring and helping out at summer camps... I'm just not sure whether they're enough. </p>
<p>I've spent three years in the U.S. when I was a kid so it's always been a dream of mine to finish college there. If you have any experience as a transfer or international transfer, feel free to share. I could use the information :) </p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>All I can help with is that elementary and middle school education and accomplishments are not evaluated. Only HS and your college credits will be evaluated to see if you will be awarded credit.</p>
<p>Tutoring experience is great because it shows expertise. Summer camp volunteering shows responsibility so include those activities. Also any activity you are involved in at your college.</p>
<p>Ignore the What are my Chances section as that is just guessing games, especially with international transfers. You might do some reading in the Transfer forum and the International forum to see if you come across any transfers. Good luck.</p>
<p>The only thing that will really matter are your college grades at this point. </p>
<p>How much will your family pay each year?</p>
<p>The key question is: how much can you pay?
If your family can pay full price, with your class rank, grades, and achievements, you’re in everywhere for sure except UNC-CH.
If you applied to Pitt, you might want to apply to Penn State University Park (Smeal) and Indiana (Kelley).</p>
<p>Thank you for responding! I did some reading on both of those forums before posting but I wasn’t able to find anything for international transfers. I guess I’ll have to dig deeper.</p>
<p>My family is willing to pay full price, but it would be great to have some financial aid since the tuition for international students is quite costly. I’ve heard that it’s practically impossible for international students to get financial aids or scholarships though. </p>
<p>Why everywhere except UNC-CH? Is it because of its higher ranking? Penn State was my first choice until I went on their website and found that the Smeal College isn’t accepting any transfer students. </p>
<p>Thank you for replying!</p>
<p>You can’t transfer directly into Smeal from abroad but you can attend Penn State in DUS (division of undergraduate studies) for a semester or two , get a great GPA in your prerequisites (you’d probably have general education classes to complete anyway sine your program is unlikely to be the same as Penn State’s) then apply from there. Or attend a branch campus in the Spring (2014) and transfer to Smeal from there.
UNC-CH because it’s highly ranked AND has a restriction on the number of students who aren’t from North Carolina (it’s a public institution so it’s primary mission is to educate the best students in the State.)</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 I phoned Penn State last night but they said since I’ve already studied for 3 semesters, I’m ineligible for the branch to main campus transfer. I’m actually hoping to get into a school where I can get my bachelor degree within 2-2.5 years without having to start over from freshmen year. I know it’s hard, considering I’ll have a bunch of general education classes to take, but I plan on getting my master’s degree in the U.S. as well so I can’t really afford the 5-6 year tuition. Right now I’m searching for schools with generous credit transfer policies, though I’ve been told that most universities are strict with credit transfers. My school was accredited by the AACSB… I’m not sure if that helps.</p>
<p>OK :s Well that’s really too bad :s
I doubt you’ll be able to get your Bachelor’s in fewer than 2.5 even if you max out on credits (depending on the school, it would be 4.5 classes or 6 classes - some schools have 4-credit classes and other schools have 3-credit classes.)
You may have better luck with other AACSB accredited schools that would welcome a full-pay transfer - for instance, check out Susquehanna University’s Business school, to get your BS then apply to Smeal for a Master’s degree? You might be able to do it in 2 years only if you max out on gen ed credits in addition to your required classes. Susquehanna is also super personable and friendly- they follow your application every step of the way. That would increase the likelihood of maximum transfer for your credits since they wouldn’t use a policy that’s supposed to fit everyone but would tailor it to your situation.
[Susquehanna</a> University](<a href=“http://www.susqu.edu/]Susquehanna”>http://www.susqu.edu/)
Bucknell, also in PA, was recently accredited and it’s a top-level school overall. Not sure what the situation is for transfers but you can check
[Welcome</a> to Bucknell || Bucknell University](<a href=“http://www.bucknell.edu/]Welcome”>http://www.bucknell.edu/)
Also in PA you have Lehigh University, Pitt, and Villanova that have well-respected business programs. Dickinson’s International management program is very good too (especially since it requires high level language proficiency and they offer 13 languages) but it’s unlikely to let you graduate fast.</p>
<p>Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll check them out:)</p>