<p>does anyone know what was the GPA cutoff for freshmen transferring into Wharton this year? I believe in the past it was around 3.8. Do you need the same GPA coming from outside of Penn as well?</p>
<p>Do EC's matter at all or is it purely GPA driven as in they sort all the applicants GPAs and take the top until they reach their desired number of transfers? How many did they take this year and how many are accepted typically?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>they sort all the applicants GPAs and take the top until they reach their desired number of transfers</p>
<p>Thats how they do it.</p>
<p>thanks venkat, do you know how many were accepted this year as internal transfers?</p>
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<p>It’s always around 3.8, they take the strongest application. It’s not like freshman application where they see if you have done a lot. They do take ECs into account but not as much as a way to make up for GPA. In freshman application you can have a 3.8 GPA and have great ECs to make up for it but ECs won’t make up for transfer.</p>
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A simple answer is, try to get the best grade possible, a 3.8 puts you at a competitive level but the higher the better. Wharton doesn’t take much transfer applications at all. Like most schools they would rather take internal transfer students than transfer students from other schools. However you have to be pretty much really good in grades and performance to have a chance at it.</p>
<p>I’ve seen the internal transfer application. For Wharton, and other schools, you do not put your ECs. For the M+T application it might be different, but for internal transfer/dual degree, just GPA and required courses.</p>
<p>I’m a recent external transfer student and my GPA when I applied was 3.8 and 3.9 by the end of the semester. During my visit, I was told by a director that Wharton accepted around 20-25 external students.</p>
<p>javous what university did you transfer from and did you transfer as a sophmore or a junior?</p>
<p>I am enter Wharton as a sophmore and transferred from Northeastern University.</p>
<p>I’m currently a cc student in NY and I got accepted in Cornell and NYU as sophomore but i didnt go for it because of my financial situation (i’m international student, there is no scholarship that i could have applied for my F-1 status). And im really interested to transfer to Wharton as junior. I have some questions, if you transferring to Wharton with having an Associate degree. does Wharton have special tread for that? and there are some classes that have to be taken for transferring and my school do not have some classes that are required such as intermediate microEco. do I still have a chance to get accepted? also, im not really good with writing an essay. What are the necessaries parts that I have to put on the essay? My current performances and achievements.
GPA: 3.87
-A Senator of Student Government.
-Dean’s list.
-TA for accounting.
<p>Do i have a good chance to get accepted as junior?
Thank u for the replies. and sorry if it’s too long.</p>
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Sorry I don’t understand the first part of that question can you explain it?
If you are asking if you can transfer to Wharton with a Associate’s degree, yes you can, although you have to make sure you take courses that are related to the pre-req of Wharton courses.
If you are asking if there is a site that gives information about having a Associate’s degree , I don’t think so but having one won’t hurt really. This is the website about transfers to Wharton: [Penn</a> Admissions: Transferring into the Wharton School](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/applying/transwharton.php]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/applying/transwharton.php)
About the courses, you should be able to find information on the website about courses. </p>
<p>I do have to say, since you are a international student, it will hurt you. Wharton accepts little to none international transfer students (considering that they accept 25 transfer students and most would be citizens or permanent residents). Sorry.</p>
<p>CDz512 thanks for your information. I was asking about if Wharton differs between the transfers students with associate degree to just regular sophomore students. And I was asking about the classes which must have already completed for the incoming senior students, and my school doesn’t have some of those classes. Another question, do you know any site that can gives information about the professors’ profile and performances in research.etc.</p>
<p>I’m going to apply it anyway, it’s not going hurt for just a try. we never know :)</p>
<p>just apply ed. good luck!!</p>
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No they don’t differ. </p>
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Yes I can.
For individual professors (it tells you about the research interest of each when you click their name), (There are a lot) but it is: [Faculty</a> A to Z - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/a-z/]Faculty”>http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/a-z/)
Unfortunately there isn’t a site that tells you how well they perform in research but I hope it helps.</p>
<p>Best of Luck!!!</p>
<p>cdz512 thanks a lot for your information it really helps. Btw, I have one question about writing the essay. can you tell me what are the important parts I should write down? any suggestion? again thank you for your help, I appreciate that.</p>
<p>Javous, did this particular director at Wharton mention how many internal transfers there were this year? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>If I’m not mistaken, I believe she said around a hundred internal transfers.</p>
<p>I belive they usually take ~100. 85 at the end of freshman year, 10 between first and second semester sophomore year, and 5 at the end of sophomore year.</p>
<p>lovemom, might I ask why you’re so interested in internal transfers into Wharton?</p>
<p>Javous - thanks, that is a high number for freshman year! </p>
<p>Hi Venkat, </p>
<p>If they start freshman year with around 450; so by sophmore year they have increased the class size by 22%? Any insight why they do this?</p>
<p>My D will be a freshman at Penn this fall and is picking her classes. She is in CAS, and is considering an internal transfer. She may decide to just take some business classes instead but I wanted to understand the process and the possibility in case she decides that’s something she does want to pursue. Also wanted to make sure she will take at least some of the required classes in her freshamn year.</p>
<p>I believe at some time you considered an internal transfer too? Are you in CAS or SEAS now?</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help.</p>
<p>Do you have any better chance of nailing an external transfer spot if you come from a decent university? Or do you have the same chance as someone who is coming from a CC?</p>
<p>@lovemom
I have always been and always will be in SAS. I probably should be in SEAS, but want to take too much econ and math to graduate in 4 years from SEAS. I also fancy myself an engineer if I wanted to be, but I really have no idea how I would have done in those programming courses (probably not too bad, but my GPA wouldn’t be this high). Like every student at Penn who has a decent GPA I considered transferring into Wharton. I took the ugliest part of the Wharton core first semester sophomore year and was so happy that I didn’t have to take 4 Wharton courses a semester till I graduated. They were way too boring and didn’t challenge how I think.</p>
<p>Wharton accepts so many internal transfers because there would be a mutany if it didn’t. Penn prides itself on a one university policy and if they didn’t open up a significant number of spots it would be overly obvious that Wharton saw itself as better than the rest of the schools. I’m sure nursing is the toughest school to transfer into in terms of prereqs, but in terms of demand by students, Wharton has the highest, driving the necessary GPA way up (like a tenth of a point in 3 years). Also, by taking all those kids with near 4.0 GPA you also guarantee that you’ll have a good mix of really smart/hardworking kids to make you look even better to recruiters.</p>