Transfer Chances - IVY, Georgetown

Transfer Students
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Bio - International student. Brought up in a strict religious family but disaffiliated myself from the religion at age 15 and was accepted to one of Britain’s most prestigious boarding schools.

Applying to - Georgetown, Yale, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, NYU(Stern), Dartmouth, Penn, Cornell.

Current Major - Finance and Economics
Entering as - Junior
High school - A levels- AAB (Full time Boarding School)
College - Big 10 public school in the U.S.A
College GPA: 3.82 (Honors Program with 5 ‘4’ level courses) (strong upward trend)
Major GPA - 4.0
SAT - 1980 (Last minute)
Letter of recommendation: Strong

Intended Major - Finance/Economics
Essays - Strong reasons for transferring (Family related), very specific individual essays.
Honors - Leadership Academy (80 chosen out of 7000 undergrads), Dean’s List, Honors Program.

Extra-Curriculars:

  1. Founder and CEO of a marketplace startup with 4 full-time and 4 part-time employees
  2. VP of Entrepreneurship Club
  3. Creator of a hydroponics community project to feed malnourished school children in drought-ridden areas.
  4. Shareholder - Student based investment fund
  5. 300+ Volunteer hours
  6. 2 internships in finance.
  7. Speak 4 languages fluently.
  8. 8 years of music production and 4 years of professional experience.

Strong upward trend, was predicted BBC at A levels and was rejected to all these schools 2 years ago.

Please chance me.

Cheers, and good luck to you all.

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SAT is pretty low for these schools, but GPA and ec’s look pretty good. That being said, transferring to the Ivies and top schools like Georgetown is going to be difficult for any applicant, even with perfect scores and records, since the spots available are limited. You might as well try.