<p>hello, I am currently enrolled at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (international student)</p>
<p>I am undeclared. I will be a sophomore next year.</p>
<p>I already applied to Northwestern and Wash U as a transfer student. However , they rejected me...</p>
<p>My HS GPA: 3.89 (weighted)
SAT : 1990
SAT II : Chemistry 680 Math II C 780
Extra: Good hs activities</p>
<p>College GPA : 3.29
No involvement at all.</p>
<p>I really want to try transferring to Northwestern and Wash U after a sophomore year.</p>
<p>What should I do to make me as a strong applicant????</p>
<p>Please give me some advices...</p>
<p>Thank you !!</p>
<p>Not to sound too blunt, but you’ll definitely need a GPA stronger than a 3.29 to successfully transfer to schools like Northwestern and WUSTL. Also, you’ll need to join some extracurricular activities and cater those to whatever you’d like to major in. Strong schools like these like to see interest in whatever it is you’re majoring in outside of the classroom.</p>
<p>Aside from that, why would you like to transfer? I also go to University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and it’s a strong school for the hard sciences and engineering, but pretty lackluster in liberal arts and social sciences, so I’ll be transferring in the spring of 2010 to Cornell. Seeing as though you’re undeclared, do you have any idea what you’d like to do after college? I think strong schools like to admit transfer applicants with strong goals of what they’d like to accomplish professionally, after graduation. You need to present these in your essays.</p>
<p>Chances that you will be accepted to WashU or NU are slim to none. Competitive transfers to top schools have 3.5+ GPAs. Your SAT scores are also very low (NU’s 25% is 2030, 75% is 2280 for SAT I). And you did not list any soft factors. So, don’t waste money on transfer apps.</p>
<p>Your best bet is to do well at UIUC. It’s a decent school, and you can still pull some 3.8 by the time you graduate (if you become a straight A-student for the remaining three years). With good GRE scores and 3.8 from UIUC, you can get into top graduate schools.</p>