Transferring to UPenn from UNC

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm a senior in high school... and here's my little/big situation:</p>

<p>got accepted early into UNC-chapel hill (yayyy)
unfortunately... i got rejected everywhere else (upenn, brown, mcgill, nyu, carnegie mellon, usc) how sad.. yaaaa......
(actually quite surprised that i didnt get into carnegie, mcgill and nyu cause they have much higher acceptance rate than unc) </p>

<p>ANYWAYS,
so im quite disappointed, and im already planning on transferring.
im leaning highly towards applying to Wharton School at Upenn for my sophomore year, and i was just wondering if anyone would like to comment on this decision. </p>

<p>i thought about it,
and it's cause for freshmens at unc, you have to go to college of art and science the first year, and then re-apply to go renan-kleglar business school for undergrad. (and you have to go through the whole admission process again with essay, transcript, recommendation, etc)
so it's like, I might as well apply somewhere with a much better business program right?</p>

<p>hm.. so it's either,
pay $50 000 a year for ivy league education (with potential financial aid) and work my ass off, live in a big city, and show off my "ivy title",
or...
stay close to home in a smalltown, pay around $20 000 (no financial aid cause im international student), have a wee bit less stress, but no ivy league title... </p>

<p>i think i'm a little over my head right now..
i haven't even graduated yet. ha.
and it's close to 2am right now. soo imma stop this post... right about... now. :D</p>

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<p>if you manage to wharton, i think in the long run you will pay back the money you made. But wharton is super hard to transfer into to, but if you think you can do it i say go for it</p>

<p>if anything chapel hill is a good school</p>

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<p>I think its irrational just to transfer becasue you have to apply again to the business school. UNC is a good school with a good reputation, not quite on the same level as Penn, but still good, as is kenan-flagler (once agaion its not Wharton, but still good). </p>

<p>Most people who go to UNC absolutely love, so I would not go into freshman year with my mind set on transferring. Give it a chance and you might end up loving it there. Also, UNC would be the wiser financial choice as aid for transfers is not so great. However, I dont know much about Penn’s FA department.</p>

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<p>There’s no guarantee you will get into either program. You haven’t set foot on a college campus yet, and UNC has quite an amazing one. Give it some time or you’re going to make your first year experience a bad one because you are constantly going to be thinking about being somewhere else.</p>

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<p>ya i definitely do want to give unc a chance,
but iv been dreaming about going to an ivy for such a long time.
and if i do want to transfer in the long run,
its better to do it in sophomore year, since they only have limited space available for juniors.</p>

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<p>^do it sophomore and if you get rejected, do it again in junior so you have double the chances and tries, it makes logical sense</p>

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<p>and thats not true,necessarily. I go to NYU currently and have been planning my transfer since the day i got my acceptance letter. i have loved another school for the longest time and want to accomplish my dream.</p>

<p>it did not ruin my freshman experience, i made a lot of friends (some know i am leaving) and had a good run.</p>

<p>Go for it</p>

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<p>lol as simple as that sounded,
that made a lot of sense. thanks.
what kind of courses would i need to take my freshmen year to impress the admission counsels?</p>

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<p>lol no problem. glad to help.</p>

<p>take economics courses lol and see if wharton has any pre-reqs. To be honest, wharton is really hard to get into. really hard. i would say get a 2300+ if you want a chance on your sat.</p>

<p>also try to get as high a gpa as possible. thats a given, but i mean don’t get below a 3.8 at unc. My friends in NYU stern took calc and micro and macro econ</p>

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<p>kk. well about the SAT, i actually started a new thread bout that,
but anyways in a nutshell, i was asking if its a good idea if I start a new account on collegeboard and just have a fresh new score on there thats close to 2400,
or keep my old account with my record of crappy scores. (highest being 1970) :frowning: </p>

<p>and for AP scores,
since i’ll be transferring them to UNC, would i still have to send them to UPenn?
cause i got a 4 on my calc BC last year, and unc gives me credit for it, but upenn will only give credit if its a perfect score…
im also taking test this may for: french, english lit, stat, and art.</p>

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<p>i dont think you need a new account. if anything i think penn might have score choice.</p>

<p>if it doesnt it wont make much of a difference. get that 1970 up first thing if u want to get into wharton.</p>

<p>uhh at unc i would retake calc.</p>

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<p>im actually thinkin of going straight into the 200’s for calc or math.</p>

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<p>wait so does that mean if i plan to transfer…and my former school (the one im going to this fall) takes AP credit, but my latter school (the one im going to transfer to) does NOT, i have to take that into consideration when picking courses? meaning i might have to retake a course i already got AP credit for?</p>

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<p>Yes, that’s what that means. If they don’t take the AP credit, and you need that class to graduate, you must retake it.</p>

<p>@ AlwaysLastMinute: 200’s…Mult. Variable Calculus? Be careful. :<</p>