Transfer chances.

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<p>One semester - Vanderbilt University
GPA: 4.0
Classes:
Calculus 150 (standard track calculus) - A
History of latin america - A
Psychology 100 - A
US Elections - A
Economics and Globalization (writing seminar) - 4.0
Extracurriculars:
Fencing club
Triathalon Club sports
Cycling club sports
Young Democrats
Nonpartisan political organization - Election Alliance
Published in the Vanderbilt Political review</p>

<p>High School:
White/African american Male
Texas
Small, ultra competitive public school(graduating class of 71)
GPA : 3.3/4 unweighted
Class rank 32/71</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-Junior Statesman of America(10-12)
-Quaker Gathering(monthly) (9-12)
-Model UN (10-12)
-Theatre(9)
-Cycling Team(9-12)
-Crosscountry(10-12)
-Service Club(12)(founding member)
-Student Council(12)
-Book Club(12)(founding member)
-Puzzle Club(12(founding member)
-International Club(11-12)(founding member)
-Worldquest(11-12)(only open to juniors/seniors)
-I'm sure I'm missing a couple</p>

<p>Achievements:
-Vice President, JSA
-Vice President, Student Council
-Captain(Varsity), cycling team
-Captain(Varsity), crosscountry
-Head Delegate, model UN
-Leader, South Central Quaker teens</p>

<p>OTHER:
-Following hurricanes Katrina and Rita, I organized a local charity benefit concert that raised 2800 dollars for evacuees
-With a friend, a run a small local business which custom builds computers for locals. Current profits are about 1500dollars, total revenue is about 10,000.</p>

<p>APs taken
Psychology(4)(learned on my own)
US History(5)
World History(4)
Euro History(4)
Physics(3)(learned on my own)
English composition(4)
Microeconomics (4)
US Government (5)
English 4 (4)
Statistics (5)
Biology (3)
Environmental Science (5)</p>

<p>SAT REASONING: 2310
800 Verbal
730 Math
780 Writing
SAT Subject tests:
700 Physics
680 US history</p>

<p>Mother is an alumni</p>

<p>As it's like the third week of school, I don't have those grades yet - this is if I get them</p>

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<p>Talk to us in January.</p>

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<p>If you get your 4.0, then you’re as golden as you could be.</p>

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<p>Your small, ultracompetitive public high school in Texas - would that happen to be in the San Antonio area by any chance?</p>

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<p>Consider applying to Penn as well. Although, given that your HS ranks, and Penn heavily considers rank (they like to keep 96% of their freshman class - those ranked, anyway - in the top decile of their HS in order to maintain their high USNews berth), Columbia may make an easier go of it.</p>

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<p>Nope, Houston, sorry. And thanks for the responses. I’m probably going to apply to Georgetown, Claremont McKenna, Uchicago, Columbia and maybe yale if I can pull of the 4.0. Studying pretty hardcore and not pledging so we’ll see.</p>

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<p>You can do it! Keep trying, man. What didn’t you like about Vandy?</p>

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<p>Decide carefully. That’s my advise as a guy who transferred to Columbia this year.</p>

<p>Visit the school, even if you live far. Check the coursepath you’ll have to take. There’s no going home, Toto. Don’t choose Columbia just because it’s Columbia.</p>

<p>Being a transfer is a different ballgame.</p>

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<p>do you not like it lion?</p>

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<p>Euh. It hasn’t been a month. I want to give it a semester at least before forming an opinion. For now I’ll just go with “disappointed but not ungrateful”. </p>

<p>It’s not the FIT for me that it is for some people I guess.</p>

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<p>^ this is a good idea, when I first came in, I thought about transferring, I wasn’t too bullish about what I saw. I made friends slowly but surely over time; each semester got better, because the network never contracted.</p>

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<p>Yeah. Yeah…I’m hoping I have a similar experience because right now my life here is feeling pretty disjointed. Maybe I could just forge some Columbia papers and get into Yale heh.</p>

<p>Sorry, bad joke. Google it though; you’ll get a pretty great little grass-is-always-greener-until-you-****-all-over-it story :D</p>

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<p>UPDATED
One semester - Vanderbilt University
GPA: 3.86
Classes:
Calculus 150 (standard track calculus, this is the most failed class at vanderbilt) - B+
History of latin america - A
Psychology 100 - A
US Elections - A
Economics and Globalization (writing seminar) - A
Extracurriculars:
Fencing club
Triathalon Club sports
Cycling club sports
Young Democrats
Nonpartisan political organization - Election Alliance
Published in the Vanderbilt Political review</p>

<p>Also, own several websites selling information products, computers, and the like - bring in roughly 2k/month in profit.</p>

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<p>you got a good shot. essays and soft factors are most important.</p>

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<p>

now this interests me. Purely for my own curiosity, could you elaborate a little bit on your business model?</p>

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<p>Yeah, definitely. I sell a DVD at howtobyopc.com and an ebook at 60anhour.com. The ebooks method works - so I make $300/week there. And then the remaining $800 is from the sales of the ebook and the dvd</p>