transfer to wharton from cornell hotel school

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<p>I'm currently a freshman at Cornell and I really want to transfer to Wharton next year. </p>

<p>Current School: Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration
GPA: Don't know yet... Won't be that great though.. </p>

<p>Courses I took/will take:</p>

<p>Introduction to Hotel/Food Operations
Financial Accounting (One of the requirements for junior transfers)
Business Computing
Freshman Writing Seminar
This one credit entrepreneurship lecture class.</p>

<p>Will take in spring:
Organizational behavior
Management Communication
Microeconomics for hospitality industry
Calculus 1 (one of the requirements for sophomore transfer)
Introductory Macroeconomics (If i do not take it over the winter)
Intermediate Microeconomics (If i do take macroeconomics over the winter) </p>

<p>Will take over winter:
Introductory Microeconomics
Introductory Macroeconomics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: (will get more involved during spring)
Cornell Hotel Society
Korean Student Association
Working at the hotel on campus
Will be interning at Westin over the winter.</p>

<p>High School:</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.5 (B~B+)
Weighted GPA: 3.8
*upward trend</p>

<p>SAT:2270
Writing: 800
Math: 780
Reading: 690</p>

<p>SAT 2's:
Math 2: 750
Math 1: 720
Lit: 600</p>

<p>7 APS:
Macro and Micro Economics, Stastics, French, English (Literature, Language), Physics B.</p>

<p>Experience:
-Internship at a restaurant.
-Worked in a bakery/cafe
-Worked in another restaurant.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
-I founded Culinary Club at my school. - President
-National Honor Society
-French Honor Society and French Club- Secretary
-Debate Team- Judge
-Peer Leadership
-Religious Christian Group</p>

<p>Community Service:
-mission trip to El Salvador, volunteered at festivals, events, center for mentally handicapped, tutored, served at events.</p>

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<p>Transferring into Wharton is <em>extremely</em> tough, even from within Penn, and from what I’ve heard your GPA has to be amazing.</p>

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<p>Transferring into Wharton from the College is not especially difficult, provided that you have around a 3.75+ GPA after freshman year. You are required to take ECON 001, 002 and CALC 104 to be evaluated, but other courses completed does not influence your eligibility (so, its more competitive to have finished ARTH001 with an A than ACCT101 with a B, though in my experience ARTH001 was equally demanding but infinitely more interesting than accounting)</p>

<p>However, transferring externally into Wharton is not possible*. What is possible (and have been done by a few students), however, is to transfer into the College, then transfer into Wharton junior year with a declared intention of completing your degree in a total of 5 years, so your transfer year could technically be viewed as your sophomore year.</p>

<p>Final piece of advise - GPA definitely matters quite a bit, even when transferring between Ivies. So yeah - keep those grades up!</p>