<p>Hello everyone, I am a sophomore-ish college student (first year, but because of AP credit and an intense classload, I'll either be a junior or 3 credits from a junior by the end of this year). I am hoping to transfer from Loyola University New Orleans to either Boston College, Cornell, Brown or Harvard (I realize the last one is highly improbable, so don't yell at me about it lol). I would be going to the college of arts and science at cornell/bc btw. Here are my stats, please let me know if you think I have a chance.
-Major: Economics
-ACT score: 31C (34 English, 34 CR, 28 Math, 27 science.. just got my scores back today, it was my first time taking it). I also have a 1920 on the SAT, which I might retake (I am averaging about 2150 on the tests in the blue book).</p>
<p>**High School stats <a href="huge%20upward%20trend%20that%20continues%20though%20college">/B</a>:
-3.78 GPA
-8 AP classes: US 1 (our school broke AP US into 2 components, the first being in sophomore year), US 2 4, European History 5, Government 4, English 4, AP AB Calc 5, Psychology 5, English 5
-I don't know how many honors classes I took, a lot though lol.<br>
-Rank: top 25% (=()
-HS EC's: Captain of Model United Nations (won multiple awards in it) and Debate. I was also on Model Congress senior year, and I was roped into Mock trial senior year as well. During high school I fenced competitively and did very well, although I had to quit due to family reasons (I would love to start again in college though)</p>
<p>*College: *
-I am in the Honors Program.
-3.98 GPA
-I believe I will be breaking a Loyola University record for amount of classes next semester (between 21 and 24 hours officially, and 6 hours unofficially (sitting in on the class, but doing all the work etc. One of the classes i'm sitting in on is a master's class too (and it looks really interesting =))
-College EC's: I'm in the econ club, I am also in the midst of starting a Model United Nations club and a Debate club (and thus will be captain of them). I did the 300 club first semester while in ROTC (I am not sure if I will continue with ROTC though, and I am not sure if it really counts). </p>
<p>-Volunteer Work: Only about 40-50 hours, and at random places (mainly helping out in NO though). </p>
<p>-Awards: Salute To Framingham (a regional award given to seniors who excelled at FHS), best Social Sciences student award (self-explanatory, given out to one or 2 students senior year (out of 460)), AP Scholar with Honor, Dean's List (or, at least, I assume I will be on it since I have a 3.98 GPA and the required is 3.5 if I remember correctly). My biggest honor for hs isn't really an award, but that my teacher invited me back to the school to be a guest-lecturer on economics (the presentation happened yesterday actually, lol).</p>
<p>-Essays: I really like my essays, and they have been going through editing hell from like 8 people :p </p>
<p>-I also think my letters of recommendation will be strong, one is from my advisor (and econ teacher, the one who is teacher the master's class), the other is from a history teacher who I really liked (He graduated from Harvard if that is relevant).
Another teacher of mine from HS also said that she really wants to write me a letter of recommendation (not one of the main 2, just basically a letter) to Harvard saying they should accept me (she also was a Harvard grad). </p>
<p>Thanks guys, aside from calming down (or perhaps agitating depending on how this goes) my nerves, I am as my friend at MIT said 'delusional in thinking that I am facing an army of God applicants'. Basically, I can look at statistics for Brown/Cornell/BC and realize that my ACT is about on par with them, and see that BC's mean GPA for transfer is 3.6 and I am above that, but more abstract things like EC's aren't in the statistics. I have looked over a whole bunch of transfer threads to these schools to see how I compare, but I am hoping that someone here with either more knowledge since they transferred to one of these schools, or more knowledge from being on these boards longer will help me out. </p>
<p>-P.S. I realize that my schools are all very difficult to get into, and even someone with a 2400 on the SAT and a 4.0 and awesome EC's might get rejected. The reason I am not applying to schools that are easier to get into is because I do like Loyola University. I have issues revolving the difficulty of the class and the distance to my home-state (Massachusetts; I had some major family issues which have caused me to come back up North), but if i get into nowhere and stay at Loyola I won't become depressed or anything.</p>