<p>Heyy guys. I am currently studying at the University of Melbourne. I was doing Electrical Engineering, but I changed Mathematics and Computer Science after a semester. Before coming into college I had applied to MIT, Caltech, and Harvey Mudd, and got rejected for all of them.</p>
<p>I am now considering transferring to the US, but I have no idea about my chaces. I believe that I am in a quite unique situation. My high school grades were really bad, but my college grades are pretty good. I am considering applying to Harvard, Stanford, MIT (Princeton doesnt accept transfer application, is that right?). I know these are reach for everybody, but I just wanted to know if it is even worth the time for me to apply. Ok here are my scores:</p>
<p>International Baccalaureate:
Maths HL 6
Physics HL 7
Chemistry HL 5
Thai B SL 7
English A SL 4
Economics SL 5
Bonus points: 1</p>
<p>College subjects:
Mathematics A - 92
Introduction to Programming - 87
Physics B - 89
Electrical Circuits 1 - 80
Applied Mathematics - 95
Digital Systems 1 - 93
Mathematics B (Advanced) - 92
Algorithmic Problem Solving - 83
Probability - 94
Software Engineering Principles & Tools - 62</p>
<p>NB: The grades are out of 100. >=80 is first class honours.</p>
<p>SAT2:
Maths 2 - 800
Physics - 800 (was 760 before retake)
Chemistry - 760 (was 710 before retake)</p>
<p>I also got a couple of awards in highschool, mostly from Maths and Physics. I represented the school in math competitions, and was one of the two students who qualified for the UK Senior Maths Olympiad, in my highschool.</p>
<p>So should I apply to Harvard, Stanford, MIT?? What are my chaces of being admitted? Another other suggestions of Universities with strong Maths program?</p>
<p>To me, those look like instant rejection had you applied for Freshmen.</p>
<p>The scores might have less impact since now it's transfer admissions. However, Harvard and Stanford want to admit "round" and "balanced" students, not students who are deathly great in physical sciences yet lacking in reading and writing English.</p>
<p>Interesting how much better your math is then your CR and Verbal......I would say you are looking at a rejection to Harvard and MIT...don't know about Stanford but a likely rejection as well, sorry...you're reading and writing scores are going to really hurt your chances big time. I would bet money if Harvard ever admitted a transfer with a 460 on CR.. Your college GPA looks to be around a 3.3, which is not that competitive for these schools.</p>
<p>I would apply to all schools anyway. What do you have to lose.</p>
<p>Gourman Report ranking for undergraduate applied math:
Harvard
U Chicago
UC Berkeley
Brown
U Wisconsin Madison
Columbia
Yale
UCLA
Caltech
Purdue
UC San Diego
Northwestern
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
UVA
U Colorado Boulder</p>
<p>Gourman Report undergraduate rankings for Physics:</p>
<p>Caltech
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
MIT
UC Berkeley
Stanford
U Chicago
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
Columbia
Yale
Georgia Tech
UC San Diego
UCLA
U Penn
U Wisconsin Madison
U Washington
U Michigan Ann Arbor
U Maryland College Park
UC Santa Barbara
U Texas Austin
Carnegie Mellon
U Minnesota
RPI
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Michigan State
Notre Dame
SUNY Stony Brook
Case Western
Northwestern
U Rochester
U Pittsburgh
Penn State University Park</p>
<p>To get into an elite school like the ones you mentioned you need to have fantastic grades/scores (i.e. 4.0 and at least 2200), as well as a strong essay or great hook. As your stats are not on that level, they are all big reaches.</p>
<p>I think you may want to try Berkeley instead of Harvard/Stanford. The minimum TOFEL for Berkeley is 550 (paper-based exam) while most top privates require 600. If you are familiar with TOFEL, you know 550 isn't hard to get. One of my ex-classmates in hs that got into Berkeley didn't have amazing verbal (now CR) score either (he was very gifted in math though).</p>