Transfer Student

Transfer Students
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Hi all,

I’m going to be a rising junior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. There have been a few things that happened recently that made me consider looking to transfer to other schools, preferably ones that rank better than the program I’m in now. I have selected a group of schools that I am interested in, but am open to any suggestions that you guy may have based on my credentials.

Here’s the rundown:

At UMASS:
GPA: 3.4
Major: Finance
Commonwealth Honors College Member
Held a Chair at my fraternity
Internships:

  • High-Tech Analyst Firm, Research Intern
  • Urban Development Non-Profit, Intern
  • Real Estate Development Firm, Finance Intern
    All internships are unique and are catered toward what I want to do for a career
    Club sport player

From High School (not sure how important this is)
GPA: 4.0/4.0 (W)
ACT: 32 one sitting (33 English, 28 Math, 33 Reading, 33 Science), 33 superscore (33 English, 34 Math, 33 Reading, 33 Science)
Subject SAT: 700 Biology (Ecological)
AP Test Scores (if this helps?): English Language (4), AP US History (4)
Senior Course Load: AP Economics, AP Government, AP Physics II, AP Calculus BC, Spanish V, British Literature
Transferred to a more rigorous private school halfway through high school

Extracurricular:
Founded three Best Buddies Chapters, one at my middle school and at both my high schools (received recognition from my state’s house of representatives for my work)
Varsity Soccer for 3 years (team was ranked top 5 in the country)
Varsity Lacrosse for 4 years

  • Team Captain & MVP Senior Year, best season in program history
    Wrestling for 2 years
    Facilitator for diversity club (educate and facilitate conversations in the community about important social issues)

Personal:
Gender: Male
Race: White
Income Bracket: No clue
State: MA

Chance me at these schools please?
Notre Dame
Boston College
Georgetown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Penn
Northwestern
Vanderbilt
Michigan
USC (California)

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Everything looks great, besides your college GPA. Most of the schools on your school list look for students with a 3.7+ college GPA. Some of them even require that you have a 3.5+ college GPA in order to even be considered. I recommend that you seriously look over your options again. Sorry, but many of those schools are simply out of your reach with your current college GPA.

High school stats are considerably less important than your college stats. While, colleges LOVE to see upward GPA trend (low secondary school GPA ==> high college GPA), downward GPA trend is not a good thing to have.

I recommend you apply BROADLY, and make sure to look for colleges’ average college GPA for incoming transfers.

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@TransferStalker certainly I would call my list of schools ambitious. What do you think about my chances at Washington in particular? That is the school I’d like to go to most out of that list. Thanks