Hey guys, I’m currently attended a top 15 school which I ED’d to but I’ve found that I want to major in Biophysics, which my school lacks as an option.
Stats:
SAT: 2320 (750 M, 770 CR, 800 W), 800 in Bio-M and US History
HS GPA: 3.7/4
College GPA: likely to be ~4.0
AP’s: Calc, Bio, US History, Lang, Lit, Micro/ Macro- 5’s; German- 4
Misc:
Intended major: Biophysics
Region: East Coast
Race: White
Hooks: Nop
EC’s: Currently working on two major research projects, did chemotherapy research in HS, captain of HS track team, tutor at local high school in college, currently involved in community education outreach program with local schools, have a few hundred hours of community service volunteering at a hospital and with the special olympics, did field research with an ecologist, editor for HS newspaper, etc. etc.
Hoping for a chance at the following schools:
Brown
Columbia
Penn
Yale
Hopkins
Bump… just need a percent chance for each and perhaps some safeties/matches as well
Yale accepts essentially no transfers (I think it’ ~2-3%) so go ahead and apply but that’s a total lottery. Johns Hopkins is somewhat plausible (~8%), as is Penn (~9%). Columbia & Brown are ~5-6% for transfers. So those are the numbers. Good luck. Maybe get over prestige and look at good programs to transfer to rather than names? Also look at some liberal arts colleges.
Thanks! In this field the best programs objectively are at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, CalTech, Yale, and Berkeley. I’m tentative to apply to any of these excepting Berkeley since there’s an exceedingly slim chance of getting into any of them. I’ll probably add Michigan and UCLA to my list since they have a strong Biophysics major as well. Due to its nature Biophysics is really only offered at larger, big name schools
I cited the same reason for transferring and only applied to one school, Johns Hopkins. The biophysics department doesn’t have many requirements and the professors are super nice. Students are competitive as well. I got a 4.0 with 2 A+s my first semester here (junior). If you want to do premed, the advisers will tell you 24/7 to take a gap year. Don’t listen to them.
The transfer students they accept here aren’t as good as I thought. I’d give you a 70% chance at Hopkins mainly because of your low high school GPA.