<p>Don't know if you guys can help me out too much, transfer admissions is kind of different from regular admissions.</p>
<p>Schools: Harvard, Penn - Wharton, Yale, Stern, Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan</p>
<p>HS Stats:
Freshman GPA: 2.3
Sophomore GPA: 2.5
Junior GPA: 3.68 (unweighted)
Senior GPA: 3.87 (unweighted) 4.44 (weighted)
SAT:
1380
SAT II's:
720 Average
Honors:
Dean's list
Omicron Delta Epsilon (International Economics Honors Society)</p>
<p>College Stats:
Year: Freshman
College: Rutgers University
GPA: 4.0
Classes: (17 credits)
Calculus
Regression Methods (400 level applied statistics, hardest offered here)
International Economics (300 level class)
3Honors Classes</p>
<p>Current semester: (17 credits)
Econometrics + 2 Intermediate econ classes that uses multivar calc
Calculus
484 Stats
Stats programming class (380)</p>
<p>I can actually graduate with an econ/stats degree next year.</p>
<p>EC's:
Fed Challenge NY Federal Reserve Semi-Finalist (HS) (Presenter)
Fed Challenge NY Federal Reserve Champions (Presenter)
2nd place in national competition
Harvard University Economics Department (research assistant)
Rutgers University Economics Department (research assistant) -- Worked on a working paper to be published in the Journal of Finance
Financial, International and Monetary Policy Columnist for School Newspaper
Money Manager/Founder of Hedge/mutual fund
LIBOR (Investment Banking Club)
Publishing a research paper, possiblly in Barron's</p>
<p>Internships/Jobs
Dow Jones - Barron's
Bear Stearns - Investment Bank
I work 40 hours a week on Wall Street
Summer:
Probablly somewhere on the buyside.</p>
<p>Recs: (All three should be great)
Undergraduate Director of the Economics department here.
Private Sector Economist who I have worked with. Used to be chief economist at Merrill Lynch.
HS Fed Challenge Advisor
Undergraduate director of the Economics department at Northwestern.. I guess I will get in there..</p>
<p>Harvard and Yale are very tough to transfer into. They accept well under 10% of the transfer applicants. </p>
<p>You are as good as in at Michigan...unless you are applying to the Business school, in which case, it is going to be tougher. Last year, only 15 non-Michigan students were accepted into the Michigan Business school.</p>
<p>Northwestern, Chicago, Stern and Wharton are going to be tough too, but you have a shot.</p>
<p>I actually think that I will have a hard time at UMich, most transfers need sophomore standing, which is something I do not have. I do have enough credits to finish their econ program next year, though.</p>
<p>I know that I am in at Northwestern. The head of the economics department, someone who I frequently chat with, pretty much guaranteed my transfer.</p>
<p>I really care about my chances at Wharton and Harvard. Wharton takes 20 out of 300 with average stats of around 3.8+ and average SAT around 1370. I am really concerned about my hs grades, though they display a consistent uptrend.</p>
<p>Does anyone know stats of past transfers to those schools? I really don't care about any other school besides those two.</p>
<p>You'll have a tough time transfering into Stern too</p>
<p>why would that be?</p>
<p>It is much harder to transfer into Harvard than it is to get in as a high school senior, and that's hard enough. From what I can figure out, Harvard selects transfer students based on what's needed to round out the class. Thus, factors completely beyond your control will probably decide your admission.</p>
<p>Because Stern is making it more difficult to transfer in, and is only accepting a handful of students, and it also depends on how much space is left in the class.</p>
<p>And I'm not qualified for Stern?</p>
<p>What about Wharton?</p>
<p>I understand the whole situation with Harvard, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Percentage wise, it is indeed difficult to transfer into Harvard. But, talent pool wise, it is less competitive. As far as this board goes, it looks like I am competing against CC people.</p>
<p>If that is your honest opinion, I'll respect that.</p>
<p>Not to be overly pompous, I actually thought Stern would be a safety for me considering the fact that I have a better resume than almost 90%+ Stern students. I am only a freshman. In addition, I am enrolled in mostly junior and senior level quant classes.. etc. etc. etc. crazy recs, ec.. etc etc. etc. (insert self praise)</p>
<p>I am also having my boss, a managing director at Bear, to write a letter of reference for harvard and penn. His uncle, who is a major donor and alumni at Wharton, will also be vouching for me.</p>
<p>It may sound to you guys that I am convinced to get into Wharton, which I am. Which is also not very healthy. Why am I asking for your opinons then? Because I am uber-insecure.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the inputs.</p>
<p>"Not to be overly pompous, I actually thought Stern would be a safety for me considering the fact that I have a better resume than almost 90%+ Stern students. I am only a freshman. In addition, I am enrolled in mostly junior and senior level quant classes.. etc. etc. etc.'</p>
<p>Yes, you are pompous. You may have better ECS than Stern freshmen, but your hs gpa and SAT are considerbaly lower than the averages at Stern. Furthermore, since only a handful of students can transfer you never know if Stern will just take AA admits or one of the 50 others students wih 4.0 gpa's from state schools like you. But good luck. If you get into Stern and Wharton, go to Stern.</p>
<p>Why Stern over Wharton?</p>
<p>I was not very impressed with Stern</p>
<p>Yes, I know that I am overly pompous. It's what typically happens to you when you work on wall street for a couple of months.</p>
<p>So far, I've never met a humble banker or trader.</p>
<p>To extend my pompous comments:</p>
<p>I actually meant that I have a better resume than most freshman/sophomore/junior/seniors.</p>
<p>Seriously man, people at the business school here worship me.</p>
<p>Not impressed with Stern?
Who the hell are you? You are some 19 yr old freshmen</p>
<p>Stern ug has better faculty, student quality, better city, and identical job prospects.</p>
<p>Also, being someone's ***** intern doesn't count as 'working on Wall St.' I almost hope you get rejcted by Stern so you don't tarnish its good name. No wonder you are at Rutgers and not a good school.</p>
<p>I have a meeting to go to, talk you guys later.
Thanks for all the inputs.</p>
<p>I'm not a ****** intern really.
And a managing director isn't really in the lower echelons of the corporate ladder, if you knew anything about the corporate structure at investment banks. No offense.</p>
<p>I'm a part-time analyst. I help put together pitchboooks for m&a deals.. if you know what that means. =) That's definitely not licking envelopes and stapling papers.</p>
<p>I didn't like stern so much because I competed against them in a recent competition. I was also advised by a couple of my friends who go there to transfer to another school. Anyway, supposedly the dean of the Stern mailed letters to the best students there to compete in it. My team singlehandedly dominated the Stern team. I think we won by a margin of 50%. All you need is to ask the students who competed in that competition about who won the NY district.</p>
<p>In terms of faculty, only the economics department at Stern trumps that of Penn. Recruiting wise, you must be crazy to think that Stern is better than Wharton. Supposedly, Wharton students are mentored by people in the industry and just by glancing over their respective finance curricula, Wharton's clearly dominates that of Stern's. I actually want to get out of the city because I would be too tempted to put myself through hell during the school year by working on the street. Working 40+ hours a week and weekends is hell considering that I am a full time student.</p>
<p>Well, I'm actually 18.
Who the hell am I? No need to get so defensive geez. I do get that a lot, but that's when I show people the crap that I do. I won't elaborate; I would sound too cocky. I'm already being cursed at. =(</p>
<p>By looking at your past posts, it seems as though you are interested in business.</p>
<p>Which school do you attend now and how do you like it?</p>
<p>why would they tell you to transfer somewhere else?
I'm pretty sure you are ********tiiing this.</p>
<p>Alan, I think your improvement has been remarkable and that your course selection and grades at Rutgers are impressive. You are shooting for some of the top programs, so they are selective, but you have a reasonable chance with all of them except with Wharton, Harvard and Yale. Even then, you never know. In the case of Chicago, Michigan, Northwestern and NYU, you certainly have a shot, but again, those are top programs.</p>