<p>Hi, I'm a freshman at Duke University, double majoring in mathematics and economics. I'm looking to transfer to Wharton either as a sophmore or a junior. </p>
<p>HS GPA: around 3.5
SAT: 2270
AP's: alot, all 4's or 5's
Full IB Diploma candidate
Lots of EC: leadership in 3 clubs, captain varsity tennis, etc.</p>
<p>College GPA: 3.775 first semester. (1 A and 3 A-'s)
EC: member of investing club and real estate club. Not too many EC's but I'm trying to get a finance-related internship next summer. </p>
<p>I want to transfer to Wharton because of an interest to pursue finance/business at a greater level. </p>
<p>Should I try to transfer this year so I'll be a sophmore at Wharton or should I wait a year and apply for junior transfer. I think my chances would be hurt for sophmore admission because of my low HS GPA. However, could I apply this year and, if rejected, apply again next year? Or would Penn look down upon this?</p>
<p>Any tips to gain admission as a transfer to Wharton?</p>
<p>ya, i went through Wharton's website and they prefer Sophomore above Juniors. Moreover, have u completed the required courses that Wharton has stated??</p>
<p>I'll be taking an intro econ course titled Econ principles which I think will fulfill the econ macro/micro requirement. But I have not yet taken a required math course and have arleady registered for classes next semester. Would UPenn allow me to take the math course at my current school in the summer to fulfill that req?</p>
<p>they only accept 25/500 people. That's a 5% admit rate. This counts both external and internal (factors in about 20-22 sophomore transfers, and 3-5 junior transfers)</p>
<p>If you weren't accepted as a senior in high school, then it's very unlikely they'll accept you now.</p>
<p>other than that, duke is awesome and that should help big time.</p>
<p>talk to the dean of transfer admission about it. i wanted to apply to wharton and she told me that basically i had no chance even though i have a 4.0 and 2230 on the SATs because wharton wants their specific math courses. like obviously you can take stat anywhere, but wharton has their "customized" stat classes and they want those. Maybe they will accept yours because you are coming from a top notch school, but i would still double check. if not, you can always apply to CAS and switch out. i think it's pretty easy to do that because you just need like a 3.5+ and an essay that says why you want to transfer.</p>
<p>You can't apply to CAS and switch out, otherwise a lot of people would do that. Yeah the transfer rate is abysmal. I wanted to try as a junior but I would have almost no chance.</p>
<p>Wharton wants their specific math course? What type is it? I'm taking Calc 2 this semester, I think it would be enough since their Math course is pretty much calc 2.</p>
<p>I thought that too and you could very well be right ( in regards to the Wharton thing), but I have heard so many students at Penn tell me that it is easy to transfer as long as you have the GPA and essay. Apparently they are good at weeding out students who want to transfer from other colleges to Wharton</p>
<p>I don't know about how it is for transferring to Wharton if you originally got into CAS as a freshman, but IIRC, Wharton won't let external transfers into another school at Penn (which would primarily be CAS I assume) transfer again (internally) into Wharton.</p>
<p>i was a sophomore transfer to wharton; they will NOT let you take ANY courses for credits not on the Penn campus. I had to fly to Penn just to take calc the summer before my first semester at wharton started. such a waste of money.</p>
<p>their reasoning is that they are already letting you transfer all your freshman year courses, so they will not let you take more courses for credit that are not through Penn.</p>
<p>what you can do though is take the course at another school, then take Penn's placement exam. However, they advised me not to do this because that test apparently is more difficult than at typical final exam through the school. Plus, in the real class, it's curved, so if you get a 60% it could still be an A with the class curve.</p>
<p>However, on the test, you have to get a RAW score of passing. All in all, it's a big risk. I would hate to get in, then not pass that test and have my admission revoked.</p>
<p>JML, do you mean courses taken during the intermitting summer that are not taken at Penn? So as long as you take courses during your usual semesters (Fall/Spring) you should be fine?</p>
<p>I could not tell you how it is at any other school except Wharton. Sorry!</p>
<p>Also, just to clarify, this "rule" only applies to external transfers. Students that were at Penn all along are allowed transfer credit.</p>
<p>Javous,</p>
<p>Yes. I was a transfer as a sophomore, meaning I spent two semesters at my previous university. Everything I took during the two semesters was eligible for transfer credit (you don't always get credit and the process is realllly a pain).</p>
<p>However, I had to complete my calc requirement to get into Penn. </p>
<p>I was not allowed to take the math class (Math 104 at Penn) at my university (UC Berkeley...not exactly an "easy" school for math either) and then transfer the credit.</p>
<p>Penn's rule for not allowing any more transfer credit has nothing to do with the caliber of the school in which you take the class or anything like that; it's just their rule.</p>