UChicago Transfer Chance?

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<p>First off, a little information is in order.
Career Goal: Hedge fund manager/i-bank</p>

<p>Freshman: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Major: Finance
College GPA: 4.0</p>

<p>HS GPA: 4.0<br>
(No Superscores)
SAT: 1350 (650 Math, 700 english)
ACT: 32 (34 English, 35 math, 27 Reading, 33 Science)
AP: U.S. History: 3
English IV: 4
Chemistry: 4</p>

<p>Lived in York, England during my junior year. Took classes at York College.
A-level Maths
AS-level English Language & Literature
AS-level Chemistry
AS-level Modern History</p>

<p>Also lived in The Hague, Netherlands during the summer of 2000. </p>

<p>Foreign Language Study
French: 4 years
Spanish: 3 years</p>

<p>First Semesterr Schedule:
Macroeconomics
Freshman Business Connections (req)
Calculus I
Legal Environments of Business
Communications (req)
College Physics I + Lab
Computer Competency (req)
17 hours. </p>

<p>Second Semester Schedule:
Honors Microeconomics
Intermediate French I
Calculus II
Business Foundations
Data Analysis
16 hours </p>

<p>Also looking at schools such as Wharton, Dartmouth, Columbia, WUStL</p>

<p>EC's are kinda scattered with int'l travel</p>

<p>Not a whole lot with college, econ club, honors programs, help with the operation of a sports nutrition franchise.</p>

<p>HS:
played soccer
boy scouts (there was a clerical error when i moved so i usually put down community service/volunteer work (LOTS) because i didn't get my eagle. small town politics didn't help).
few odd jobs -- computer technician in England, Lowes.
robotics
design and building of a waterwheel for the community square</p>

<p>Let me know! the community on this site is awesome!</p>

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<p>I think you have an excellent shot. All your stats are in order + all your extras (especially the studying abroad) make your application pretty darn interesting.
"the community on this site is awesome!"
see, compliments get you comments</p>

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<p>I'm also applying as a transfer EA. I think you are a lock.</p>

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<p>that sounds good to hear -- i thought my lower SAT scores may have thrown me out of the high chance runnings. anyone else xferring? from where?</p>

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<p>The big question - why are you transferring? That could make it.</p>

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<p>I am at IIT in Chicago. Hopefully my essays are great, recommendations are great, and upward swing is cool enough to get a second look.</p>

<p>High school stats:
Rank: 77 out of 295 (....)
GPA: 3.3
ECs: Pretty much none.
GPA trend: All Cs freshman year, ended up with 4.0 senior year - each year was an improvement on the last. No Ds or Fs.
APs: None at all.
ACT: 28</p>

<p>College stats:
GPA: 3.42
Classes: 6 classes last semester, 3.66 last semester, Dean's list last semester.
Grades: All As/Bs, and one C first semester.
ECs: Leadership position in College Republicans, member of Honors Law Society, member of video gaming group FRAG, writer for and copy editor of school newspaper.</p>

<p>Two years of college down after this sem, not 1.</p>

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<p>transferring out of a huge party school into one that's more academic/successful in nature. looking for a challenge, and also somewhere that could help me advance in careers. UofA lacks connections of any sort save those at Wal-Mart and Firestone. Don't want to work at either of them at all. maybe Goldman Sachs or another IB, and then there's always hedge funds if luck's on my side! obviously i'd doll it up a little more on the app as this was kinda thrown together... but that's it in a nutshell</p>

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<p>You're very likely to get it. </p>

<p>However-- just a head's up-- expect to be screwed out of your credits transferring like crazy.</p>

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<p>any reason why with those stats that you went to arkansas in the first place?</p>

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<p>anisky: Do I have any hope?</p>

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<p>i plan to get some credits for the econs of some sort, and the calculus, possibly a science or two -- i'm sure the businesses and stastical econ won't count though :-/</p>

<p>neverborn -- you highjacker!! j/k -- i'll let you borrow my thread ;)</p>

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<p>HotCase -- scholarships. I basically make a few dollars a year w/ stipends & reselling books. When I started my college career I was planning on being debt-free.... ideas and whatnot have changed, and I'd rather have a good education at a good university --> IB, M&A, consulting and whatnot. small town AR, so my views were limited. just now getting a feel for what i could do with different degrees.</p>