Transfer to NU, Cornell, Rice, Penn, or Michigan!

Transfer Students
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<p>Hi All,</p>

<p>I'm currently looking to transfer to Cornell, Penn, Rice, Northwestern, or Michigan and just wanted a gist of how the college experience/community is at those schools. Also potentially an evaluation of what chance I stand. I'm a prospective Econ major at NYU. I'm currently a freshman. My reasons for leaving NYU mostly revolve around the lack of community and a desperate lack of intellectualism because it's so exceedingly pre-professional(everyone's out to make money here). From my understanding, Michigan is relatively generous with transfer applicants? </p>

<p>Some stats: </p>

<p>HS GPA: 3.8/4.0 - 4.25/5.0
ACT - 31 single sitting(33 combined)
College GPA: 3.92/4.0
SAT 2s: 770 USH and 800 Math 2
APs: USH - 5, Calc AB - 5, Calc BC - 4, Env. Science - 4, APCS - 3(didn't take the class), AP literature - 4, AP Econ - 4</p>

<p>College Classes:
Analytical Statistics
Calculus 3
Linear Algebra
Developmental Economics
Principles of Macroeconomics
GE Liberal Arts class
Another GE liberal arts class
Writing 1 and Writing 2
Elementary Chinese </p>

<p>Note. I'm relatively ashamed of my high school performance, many of my essays will focus on my growth both in terms of maturity and diligence. I have some pretty cool life experiences to share. </p>

<p>ECs:
High School:
-Started DECA business club at my high school.
-Interned at the Psychology department at Stanford. Conducted research on issues related to academic performance in teenagers.
-Varsity Tennis
-Organized charity talent shows for 3 years in a row(Interact club).
-Scholar-Athlete
-Honor Roll(3.5+)
College:
-Founded a company, development is in phase, minimum viable product probably by May.
-Developmental Economics Research - Currently working on a paper examining why gender ratios in China, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa are much lower than the developed world.
-Management Consulting Group(Couple of case competitions)
-Planning a 5k walkathon for charity:water, a NY based charity organization. </p>

<p>Any suggestions, advice would be much much appreciated!</p>

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<p>I know how you feel about being ashamed about your high school GPA. I’m an Indian girl, a senior in high school, and I just got rejected from my dream school, the University of Chicago. I purely believe it was on the basis of my GPA, since my ACT scores (33), essays, recommendations, and ECs were all good. It is horrible to know that slacking for the first two years has hurt me so much.
My plan is to hopefully attend NYU, and then transfer into UChicago with a 4.0 first semester and taking summer classes there and making a 4.0 at their school. I personally believe that dedicated committment to UChicago will show them how badly I want to be there. Right now I’m focusing on an upward trend, making a 4.0 my last semester of high school, acing the IB exams, and well…doing well during the summer and my first semester of college.
Hopefully, the dream will come true soon.</p>

<p>Keep in touch and let me know what happens! I’d love to have you as a role model.</p>