<p>Current school: Emory University
Major: History + something else, maybe math or sociology
Year: 2nd
GPA: 3.62 (it's low, because I didn't want to transfer till now so I have taken all sorts of random senior level classes)
SAT: reading 740, math 770, writing 750
EC:
1) History research for a year, on Early Modern Chinese military stuff. It's also a pretty rigorous undergraduate research program in Emory, so I got the chance to do poster presentation. Nothing that serious, but I can get really good reference letters from my professors.</p>
<p>2) This should be quite interesting. I'm the COO of an educational consulting start-up that now values about $1m. I am taking a year off and going back to Shanghai (I'm international from China) to help run the company. I am planning to work in the office for the whole summer and the fall semester, then go traveling around the world in the spring, while working on transfer application in some exotic places :D
I've been working on this start-up for three years and it is now in a good shape. I know many students have their own business, but most of them do not lead a management team. This is my difference.</p>
<p>My school:
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia</p>
<p>This is a very hard school list indeed, but the reason why I'm not applying to other schools like Brown or U Chicago is because that I have already spent 2 years in Emory. I can graduate very fast from Emory, taking only one more semester to finish. I don't want to spend 3 more years on undergrad in schools other than the five above.</p>
<p>What do you think my chance is? Please be honest, I won't be offended.</p>