<p>I got really lucky and got into a scholars program at the school of humanities at CMU</p>
<p>hs stats:
SAT: 760V 740M 700W
SAT II: 800MathII 780Phys
GPA: terrible.. basically a 3.0 and i got straight b's my senior year(i had family problems to explain this, however)
Rank: top third of my class. average nj public school
ec's: normal crap.. made a computer club and did pretty good on physics team plus a few fluffy clubs to pad app</p>
<p>I am looking at upenn, uchicago, cornell, umich-ross anywhere really that is better than CMU.. hopefully some place with good fin aid but that is not a requirement. I want to major in econ or business.</p>
<p>what do you guys think? if I get a very high GPA my first semester do I have a shot of transferring or should I save my time and money and wait to transfer as a junior?</p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>edit; I will be taking calc in 3D, abnormal psych, expository writing, principles of econ, a required computer seminar and an honors seminar</p>
<p>If you work your butt off your first year with your classes and get a GPA of at least 3.8 and do very credential ECs, then you have a chance at those schools even as a sophomore transfer. You have pretty solid SAT and a really high SAT II. your high school GPA won't matter as long as you do well in your college.</p>
<p>you might end up liking CMU...even though im being a hypocrite because thats what people tell me all the time and I still want to transfer after freshman year</p>
<p>anyways, any ivy is difficult to transfer into, but i'd say your chances are good at uchicago and umich-ross if you maintain a high gpa your freshman year. you should be aware that umich-ross doesn't care about SAT's.</p>
<p>yea cmu is a good school but i would like to explore my options</p>
<p>ross would be perfect for me... its a shame they dont look at SAT's though since that is my main selling point</p>
<p>perhaps I will wait to transfer into Tepper and then just apply to Wharton as a sophomore and pray. Or perhaps stay an econ major and apply to Yale/Harvard/etc as a sophomore.</p>
<p>what to do... what to do...</p>
<p>and im from central NJ</p>
<p>edit;</p>
<p>do people ever transfer from business schools to liberal arts schools? would Tepper to harvard as a junior be possible or would I lose too much credit?</p>
<p>I think I will apply to Harvard, Yale, Wharton, Columbia, and Stanford after my freshmen year. I know I would probably not get into many places if any but would it be a complete waste of money?</p>
<p>then if i dont get in I will spend another year at CMU(Tepper) and apply to the above schools again plus schools like uchicago and cornell to add a safety net</p>
<p>"Then if i dont get in I will spend another year at CMU(Tepper) and apply to the above schools again plus schools like uchicago and cornell to add a safety net"</p>
<p>It wouldn't be a waste of money to apply, especially if you get a good college gpa, but don't have the mindset "well if i don't get into harvard i can always just go to uchicago." I know that wasn't really what you were saying, but all those schools are pretty difficult to get into. For me personally, I had a similar situation/stats to yours and didn't get accepted to UChicago this year, however people with similar and even lower stats than I had were accepted.</p>
<p>Your best bet, especially since you said you are in an honors program, is to befriend a professor early and get a good rec, recs go a long way. Also try not to have any Bs if it can be avoided.</p>
<p>Also this:
"your high school GPA won't matter as long as you do well in your college."</p>
<p>is not true, but you can show you were performing below your ability in high school and have since shaped up.</p>
<p>i meant apply to uchicago and cornell type schools after my sophomore year. yes it is not definite I will get in to those schools but it is highly likely if I do well in college... plus it would not make sense to even apply to a less selective school as I am already at CMU</p>
<p>and it would probably be a waste to apply to Harvard, Yale, etc after freshmen year, right? I doubt I have any chance at all.</p>
<p>my reasoning is that if i apply to uchicago type schools after freshmen year and get in(which may be possible?) then that is basically the end of the line for transferring.</p>
<p>"and it would probably be a waste to apply to Harvard, Yale, etc after freshmen year, right? I doubt I have any chance at all."</p>
<p>Would only be a waste if you would consider the $60 or whatever application fee not worth the off-chance you might get in, or the time it takes to get recs, fill out apps, etc.</p>
<p>I personally found the ivy application process pretty daunting and as such did not apply to Dartmouth like i had planned, maybe i was just lazy though.</p>
<p>And yes I think UChicago is definitely possible after freshman year, especially considering they seem to be very suprising about who they admit, i think they look hard for intellectuals with potential rather than walking resumes.</p>
<p>definitely attempt to transfer out....i am a sophomore transfer who is beginning at upenn next year, and i transferred from a school that was ranked lower than cmu. as long as your gpa is really strong, you are definitely in the running for an acceptance.</p>
<p>i think that ull have a chance if u really express a real reason for wanting to go at each school...not just prestige...which is wat it seems like</p>
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i think that ull have a chance if u really express a real reason for wanting to go at each school...not just prestige...which is wat it seems like
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Bingo! To the OP, you haven't even been to CMU. How do you know the schools on your list are "better?" You wouldn't, I hope, just be referring to USN&WR rankings. The difference in ranking for schools at the level of CMU and above are meaningless. Meaningless.</p>
<p>Like the previous two people said, it seems as though you just want to transfer for prestige, and to say that you go to an ivy. That's a terrible reason to want to transfer, especially since CMU is an amazing school itself.</p>
<p>I'm not sure why people post in any thread like this to question the original poster's motivations for wanting to transfer. I have seen lots of threads with the same basic premise -- a soon-to-be-freshman already thinking about transferring. I'm in that position too, essentially same as the OP, just replace CMU with PSU.</p>
<p>How is it wrong to want to transfer at this point? Compared to during the school year, now is not a busy time. The school I will be going to was far from my first choice. My high school stats were not enough to get into the schools I really wanted to go to. Transferring would provide another chance to go to the schools we wanted to attend in the first place. Why not spend the time researching this stuff now, as opposed to in a few weeks when it would have to compete with school stuff?</p>
<p>Really, I'm not directing this at the last two posts, just more of a trend I've noticed in many threads. There seems to be contempt from a lot of people for anyone who is about to be a freshman and learning about the options they would have for transferring. I don't understand it because now seems like the perfect time to learn about what is required to transfer. Research and time on CC doesn't commit you to leaving the school you're enrolled at now, and I seriously doubt that anyone's mind has been changed by reading replies in their thread that say "but why don't you give <currentschool> a chance before you even think about this?" If the poster asked "what are my chances transferring after one year" chances are I don't see how "perhaps you're transferring for the wrong reason" is very relevent.</currentschool></p>
<p>I want to transfer because I know I can and I would like to prove that to myself.</p>
<p>I refuse to stop advancing toward being the best because I am already almost there. I will not become complacement despite the people here bashing me as a prestige whore.</p>
<p>I have a number of personel reasons for wanting to transfer but it looks like I will get no more help here so I suppose this thread is useless now.</p>
<p>actually im in the same boat as far as not having experienced a school but i feel that i have legit reason for wanting to transfer. im interested in certain aspects of certain schools that my school doesnt offer. there's nothing wrong with wanting to transfer already...the only difference is the reasoning. i wouldnt leave a great school to go to an ivy for the sake of it. id go if i saw something that my school lacked.<br>
my advice to the original post was not to dissuade but just to encourage he/she to really do real research and have a reason other than prestige...b/c thats the only way you can get into those schools. you cant just have great grades and some ECs you have to really portray why...and prestige just won't cut it.</p>