<p>I goto a small technology school in New Jersey called Stevens Inst. of Tech.</p>
<p>I love Stevens, but its curriculum is too narrow and has little or no courses apart from engineering or sciences. That’s my reason to transfer to schools that offer a wide variety of disciplines. I cannot imagine myself being here for 3 more years pursuing only computer science courses. It is already driving me crazy. I would like to pursue the kind of major which combines Computer Science and Business aspects - Management Information Systems. Stevens has Business & Technology major, however, it is not an accredited business program yet, and it offers very little number of courses other than the ones strictly geared towards Information Systems. For I also have personal interests in Finance, I don’t mind changing my major completely to Finance.</p>
<p>Anyway, I am considering the following schools:</p>
<li>Cornell University - College of Arts & Sciences</li>
<li>Brown University - College</li>
<li>Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business </li>
<li>Tufts University - School of Arts & Sciences</li>
<li>New York University - Neonard N. Stern School of Business</li>
<li>Boston College - Carroll School of Management</li>
</ol>
<p>Please tell me if the above list of schools are reachable:</p>
<p>I have:</p>
<p>SATI
Math - 680
Verbal - 620
SATII
Writing - 660
Math 1 C - 720</p>
<p>College GPA - 3.68
HS GPA - B</p>
<p>Based on just numbers…which schools among the above list of schools are either “slim chance” or “possible”. And I would appreciate if anyone of you guys recommend me some good schools for me.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Cornell University - College of Arts & Sciences - SLIM chance</p></li>
<li><p>Brown University - College - SLIM chance</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business - slim chance</p></li>
<li><p>Tufts University - School of Arts & Sciences - maybe possible</p></li>
<li><p>New York University - Neonard N. Stern School of Business - possible</p></li>
<li><p>Boston College - Carroll School of Management - possible</p></li>
</ol>
<p>there are 3.9 legacies and 4.0 transfers from Rice with published research getting rejected at Cornell, I would pretty much write that off, same with Brown, I guess transfer apps to those schools got REALLY competitive this year.</p>
<p>If this year is anything to go by:
1. Cornell University - College of Arts & Sciences: No chance
2. Brown University - College: No Chance
3. Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business: Slim chance
4. Tufts University - School of Arts & Sciences: Slim chance
5. New York University - Neonard N. Stern School of Business: No chance (CAS is possible though)
6. Boston College - Carroll School of Management: Possible</p>
<p>My suggestion: look for lower ranked schools for transfer. If you wanna do business Indiana U might be good for you.</p>
<p>haha I love how you emphasized "SLIM" for Cornell and Brown :)</p>
<p>Could you recommend me any other schools?</p>
<p>I am NOT desperate...I might as well just stay 2 more semesters and raise my college GPA to compensate low SATs and HS GPA.</p>
<p>So, perhaps my list should be somewhat like this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Tufts University - School of Arts & Sciences</li>
<li>New York University - College of Arts & Sciences</li>
<li>Boston College - Carroll School of Management</li>
</ol>
<p>Yea the Cornell and Brown threads that I was reading killed me, soo many super-qualified applicants getting rejected.</p>
<p>I'm actually in the process of transferring out of Indiana U, they do have a good undergrad business, you'd be an almost certain admit to IU, but the business school has lots of pre-reqs and you would be real far behind trying to catch up as a (junior i assume) transfer. Most business majors at IU are doing I-Core their junior year (which are basically the second set of pre-reqs to actually starting your major). So you would either have to do lots of summer school or graduate maybe a year behind I think.</p>
<p>I think NYU you would have a much better shot to apply to CAS and transfer into Stern once at NYU. I don't know anything speicifically about NYU but, for instance, at IU it's very easy to transfer to Kelley once you are an admitted IU student, but pretty hard to get in as a direct admit.</p>
<p>Tufts and BC I would say you have more or less a good shot, probably depending on the rest of your application besides your grades and test scores, I've read about alot of people transferring out of Tufts so I would guess they have lots of spaces for transfer students every year, but I haven't looked it up or anything.</p>
<p>You might want to try Northwestern, Boston University, Babson, George Washington University, Washington University in St. Louis. All of which I'd say you are competitive at.</p>
<p>I am aware that my first list was far out of my reach...</p>
<p>I seriously think that if a student wants to pursue his or her future career in financial industry, the student isn't required to major in Finance...i guess, have fun and try different things while in undergrad... :)</p>
<p>ok so..</p>
<ol>
<li>NYU - CAS or Gallatin (btw, what is Gallatin? independent study sounds suitable to my situation)</li>
<li>BC - Carroll MGT</li>
</ol>
<p>No, you can't inter-transfer into Stern when you've already transfered to NYU from an outside institution.</p>
<p>Most of the best schools don't even have undergraduate business degrees offered, so you most definitely don't NEED a finance degree to work in finance. MBA programs accept all qualified students, you don't need a business undergrad to apply there.</p>
<p>I applied to Northwestern as a transfer for Fall 2006, admissions are competitive yeah, but no worse than somewhere like Georgetown, although they had a huge amount of freshman applicants this year.</p>
<p>I have about a 3.78 and a 1480SAT (790V 690M) as well as legacy and professor recs at Northwestern and I hope to get in; it's easier to transfer to Northwestern, I have heard, than to other similarly-ranked schools. We'll have to see. I think you would be competitive with a 3.68, I was told their average transfer GPA is about a 3.7.</p>
<p>Anywhere is possible, even 0.00001% counts. haha :)</p>
<p>I have a friend who goes to NW..He chose NW over Cornell and Cooper Union.</p>
<p>I just hope that he adopts me haha :) jk jk</p>
<p>NYU is perhaps the best choice for me...since I live along the Hudson river looking over Manhattan...I love NYC...but in the back of my head i want to try something else... :) just not Computer Science please!</p>
<p>
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I think NYU you would have a much better shot to apply to CAS and transfer into Stern once at NYU. I don't know anything speicifically about NYU but, for instance, at IU it's very easy to transfer to Kelley once you are an admitted IU student, but pretty hard to get in as a direct admit.
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If you transfer into NYU you can't internally transfer to Stern (much like Wharton @ Penn).</p>
<p>i would think CMU would be easier to transfer in than a place like georgetown or even tufts... As a freshman, it's about as hard to get into as BC.</p>
<p>I think I am settled. NYU...but CAS or Gallatin or Stern? Stern seems impossible only that I have close relationship with a professor there and that my uncle used to be a faculty of NYU but not stern...</p>
<p>anyway thanks, any other recommendations? how about Brandeis? I am not a Jew, I am an Asian...thus I believe being an Asian might actually help me haha unlike other top tier schools where being an Asian is a disadvantage :)</p>
<p>definitely get the professor you know at nyu to write you a rec, that will help tons i'm sure. With your stats, if you really are set on going to nyu, you might be better off just applying to CAS, because the chances you will get rejected at stern are higher, and then you can't attend nyu at all. If you would just LIKE to go to nyu, but have several other schools in mind, and don't think it's worth going to nyu if not stern, then you should probably apply directly to stern.</p>
<p>Also, I interviewed with a guy at university of chicago who went to brandeis who was very unenthused with the way non-white, non-jewish students were treated. He said even ethiopian jews were made to feel uncomfortable, and that the administration didn't care. Recently he just emailed me this article about the administration forcing palestinian art to come down. On the contrary i have a white jewish friend who goes to brandeis and loves it.</p>
@elsijfdl NYU Stern is not “possible”… I would say no chance at all. Mind you the retention rate for the business school is very high and you are competing against ivy-level students and the NYU students who are all trying to internal transfer. With such lackluster hs GPA and low quantitate testing scores your chances are slim. NYU Stern’s normal acceptance rate is only 13%. I would recommend applying to CAS and going the econ/math route.