<p>Go to Georgia Tech as an entering freshman
Going to major in economics & international relations in tech</p>
<p>Have a few questions~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1) What do I have to do in tech in order to tranfer to top 25 schools listed by the U.S. News.
2) Is it better to apply in my freshman or sophomore when my high school stats is not that great?
3) Name any schools in top 25 in which acceptance rate is high (forget about my major).</p>
<p>My high school stats:
SAT
Reading 600
Math 800
Writing 620</p>
<p>SAT II
US History 610
World History 740
Math I 740</p>
<p>GPA(weighted)
93.5/100
3.8</p>
<p>Activites
Orchestra
NHS
Math Team
Chess Team</p>
<p>Award
Key Scholar
Lamp of Knowledge
one award given by University of Georgia
3rd place in Korean writing competition</p>
<p>*Let's just say that I get at least 3.5 in tech
Exclude Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, MIT, CalTech, Stanford from my top 25 list. (There is no chance)</p>
<p>1) Try to get a higher GPA, develop a close relationship with a few professors for good reccomendations, and possibly re-take your SAT. Other than that, everything looks on point.</p>
<p>2) Your high school stats are not bad at all. Therefore, in your case transferring junior or sophmore year won't make a huge difference.</p>
<p>3) Cornell, Upenn, Northwestern, Georgetown, and Michigan-Ann Arbor have pretty respectable rates.</p>
<p>georgia tech is a pretty decent school, but i can see why you want to get out of georgia. first of all, you're going to need to have a really decent gpa to transfer into a top 25. besides the schools you listed, you should forget all the ivies unless you have a REALLY good reason for transferring.</p>
<p>if i were you, i'd apply to the top privates like georgetown, washu, northwestern, and johns hopkins. you necessarily don't need to do as many activities as you did in high school you probably won't have the time anyway, but get HEAVILY involved in 1-2 clubs/activities that you have a passion for.</p>
<p>i transferred all over the place, so if you have any questions, lemme know. i wouldn't mind helping a fellow korean.</p>
<p>the aspirant,
I appreciated your reply to my question, but I have questions for you.
1)What is decent gpa? Is 3.5 decent gpa? I didn't take courses yet, so I don't really know.
2) Do schools which you listed above have good economics & International relations program? Recommend me 2 to 4 schools that I can have a decent chance and good program).
3) I am thinking about retaking SAT because of my reading score, what do you think?
oh yeah!
4) apply during my freshman or sophomre?</p>
<p>I transferred from Penn State to UMich Ann Arbor. To stand a good chance of being accepted, a GPA over 3.5 should be good enough. You don't need any recommendations when you're applying from a large school like Penn State to another large school like UMich, although if you know your professors well enough go ahead and send a recommendation. As far as EC's are concerned, you don't need to be highly involved either. I applied for transfer at the end of my first semester of my freshman year and didn't have many college EC's to boast about. However, if you're applying as a junior transfer than EC's will play an important part. </p>
<p>GPA matters the most though. Again, if you want to transfer to an ivy or another top private school then I think you need to be more qualified. There is quite a difference in admission standards between the top 10-15 and 15-25 universities.</p>