<p>These are all my reaches. I am transferring from a community college with a 3.45 and 1120 on old SAT. If I wait to apply until after this semester my GPA should be up to about 3.6 or 3.7. Do I have any chance at these reaches. I will be majoring in business(accounting or finance). Are any of these worth applying to?</p>
<p>NYU
Cornell
UNC-Chapel Hill
Penn
Univ. Michigan</p>
<p>Any other schools I should consider?</p>
<p>with ur sat score, almost everyone of those will be reaches. I spoke to a person at Penn for transfers, she said they usually range between a 1300-1350, and i am over a 100 pts above that, and may not get in.</p>
<p>well, it'd be nice if your gpa was 3.8+, but if you have a good reason you could definitely get into a few of those. I'm assuming you are applying as a junior.</p>
<p>You have a chance at Michigan. I was accepted as a transfer with a 3.3 GPA (3.6 UW in HS with a 27 ACT), albeit from a fairly selective LAC. However, if you are trying to get into Ross at Michigan, don't bother. Good luck</p>
<p>Anyone else???</p>
<p>A few of my matches/safeties include: Syracuse Purdue Indiana Miami Boston College Univ. Buffalo Binghamton Univ. Villanova Univ. Florida USC</p>
<p>That's a lot of schools to choose from. I'm not sure about you, but I made the mistake in high school of applying to wayy too many colleges, and I ended up not getting into where I wanted. I think you should focus your search, definitely include a few of the safeties, but apply to a reasonable number of reaches. Apply to where you really want to go, because that will show in your application. As far as chances, I'm in the same GPA boat but my SAT is higher and I go to a four year university, so I'm not sure what the difference in our chances are, but I threw out Penn because their transfer admissions counselor told me that they average transfer GPA is 3.7 and a lot of people transfer in from other ivies and the likes of Northwestern. I don't believe that Penn was worth the money/risk with my lower GPA and competition being high, as well as it not being as good for my major, biology. As far as business goes, I'm not sure about UNC, but the others are good for business, and Wharton is tough to get into from what I hear. I guess what I'm trying to say yes have some safeties just in case, but not too many, and try to limit the reaches to the ones you really want to go to. Indiana from what I hear is good for business, and perhaps Villanova. That's just my input.</p>
<p>boston college, villanova, u of indiana, are safeties/matches? i dont think so, sound more like slight matches, possibly reaches.</p>
<p>U of Indiana is definately a safety.</p>
<p>Ok your are in a much better situation then me grade wise, but i have a 30 point lead on you for the SAT haha well ok... I want to major in finance and these are the schools that i am looking at, Wisconsin being number one</p>
<p>Wisconsin
Illinois
Purdue
Indiana Bloomington
Minnesota
If your goin for Mich, must as well put Virginia down too
Iowa
Maryland
Miami Ohio
Colorado-Boulder
Ohio
And Michigan state</p>
<p>All great schools with business, and i can say that you have excellent chances at all of these but virginia. They have great business programs that you can actual get into, and not just the college. And if you want finance, each school has a special program for 20-30 choosen people to meet with people in the business and create a network. At Wisconsin there is a new investment club started by and a grad a few years back that is bringing investment banks such as lehman, piper, banc of america securities, etc for recruiting. And if accounting is your thing, then illinois should be one of your top choices</p>
<p>sucuse - how many semesters of college do you have under your belt? If you only have a year, your SAT score will average a little more into the admissions mix. If you've had at least two years, it will only make a marginal difference at most. Contrary to popular belief, most schools dont really care a whole lot about SATs for transfers. They (SATs) try to predict first semester performance in college, but research has found that's only true 15% of the time. A lower than normal SAT score for transfers will not 'count you out' of admissions ... then again a very high score will not do much to get you in - the most emphasis is placed on your GPA and performance in school. Schools that have high SATs may not place huge emphasis on top scores, its just that their best candidates also happened to have high scores as well.</p>
<p>actually, if you're going for business, michigan is a huge reach for you (Ross is very competitive)</p>
<p>That is the problem. If you dead set on entering a business school, you have to be careful. You may be able to get into the college, but getting into the business school is a different story, and i am sry to say, but i highly highly doubt you could get into any of those business schools. However, all the flagship state universities in the midwest have top business schools that people can actually get in. They are more regional, but if you try you can end up in the same situation as a Upenn student etc etc. It would just take a lot more efforts upon yourself instead of having someone just come to you</p>