University of Pennsylvania Fall 2019 Transfer Thread

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Also, a lot of schools like Columbia, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale have a single release date. If you look on their individual websites, the date is almost always listed on the website under important dates.

Any chance results coming out May 2nd?

Last year they changed it from early May to May 15th. I guess you never know, but I think it is still mid May.

Going off last yearā€™s day of the week, it should be May 14th this year. But who really knows.

Hi all! I applied to A&S for Health and Societies (concentration in Health Policy) and was wanting some feedback.

Black/female

STATS

HIGH SCHOOL: small private high school, 97 students in my grade
GPA: 3.7 GPA
ACT: 1420
APā€™s: APUSH, AP Stats, AP US Gov / AP Comparative Gov, AP Physics 2

HS EXTRA CURRICS
Founder of Democratic Club
Leader of Diversity Committee
Leader of Habitat for Humanity Club
Volunteer at nonprofit started by my friendā€™s mom after he died where she donates to underprivileged children in their neighborhood
Volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club for 4 years
Swim instructor

COLLEGE: Cornell University Freshman
Major: Global and Public Health Sciences Minor: Policy Analysis and Management
GPA: 3.3 first semester (B- in chemistry, B in physiology)ā€¦ Second semester approximation = 3.7 or 3.8
Credits: 13 completed, in the process of completing 16 for the spring semester
Midterm report: One B+, 4 Aā€™s
Letters of rec: 2 from English and Public Health professors

COLLEGE EXTRA CURRICS
Habitat for Humanity member
BSU (Black students united) member = activism
BWSN member (Black women support network) member = community service (mental health support)
BOSS member (building ourselves through sisterhood and service) member = community service
Still a swim instructor (not on campus)
Still work for non-profit that my friendā€™s mom started

COLLEGE TRANSFER ESSAY:
10/10. Iā€™m a very strong writer so I have confidence that my essays are perfect. I wrote about how maternal mortality rates in the black community are 3-7 times higher than that of white women and how I would be better suited to address those issues policy-wise in the future with a UPenn education.

REASON FOR TRANSFERRING:
My reason for transferring is due to my interest in Healthcare Policyā€¦ Cornell only offers a Bachelorā€™s in Science in Health Policy, not a Bachelorā€™s in arts, meaning I would have to take pre-med reqs while I am not pre-med. Additionally, I hate Ithaca very much (gray, dark, depressing, isolated).

What do yā€™all think my chances are?

I also applied to
Barnard
Yale
NYU

@harvard

So apparently Cornell came out today!! Which is actually very early. TBH itā€™s the first major transfer college I believe to release itā€™s decisions.

Cornell has always released its first wave of decisions earlier than the others. Cornell regular decision also saw a decrease in regular decision applications so I wouldnā€™t be surprised if they saw fewer transfer applications as well and thatā€™s why their decisions came out this early. I would bet May 14 or 15 for Penn.

Applying to UPenn for Economics:

Stats:
School: City college in NYC
4.0/4.0 GPA- Took 63 credits, 12 in progress (relevant courses in macoeconomics, micro, intro to business, CIS course)
ECs:

  • Three volunteer trips overseas ( a month each- soup kitchen in Vietnam, teaching orphans in Africa, and construction )
  • Blockchain internship for 6 months
    -Created my own website with a large amount of writing writers (stopped working on it a year ago)
  • have 300K twitter followers on accounts based on news/sports statistics
  • real estate internship at big company from HS

Decent essays, but not great- based on volunteer experiences, Switching majors, and how I had to be local bc of parent illness
Good rec from a communications+English teacher but not so relevant- also from person I worked with in blockchain internship
Around 3.8-3.9 HS GPA/4
1260 on SATs (Superscored also)

Economics as in Wharton Econ or CAS Econ?

All your stats are great; you have a great chance. Only issue is your SAT score, assuming that your writing is decent. However, I donā€™t know how much weight they put in SAT scores for transfers; Iā€™d guess that they care more about college GPA, ECs, letters of rec and essays.

Hey guys! Iā€™m an immigrant (DACA) student with a 3.3 GPA. Iā€™m in an honors program at my school, and have taken about five psychology courses, which is major, and have done extremely well. I bombed one class that I couldnā€™t dropped which is why my GPA is so low. Quite a few EC while in college. Not so good HS stats. Penn is obviously a long-shot for me so hoping for a favorable outcome :/. Good luck everyone!

@JeffreyPo your stats look great! Fingers crossed mate :slight_smile:

@Asifion Iā€™m hoping they look past it- especially since Iā€™m a junior. However, applying for economics is probably not easy- bc probably a ton of applicants

@JeffreyPo was this for Wharton or Cas?

@aussiedude CAS

Come on Penn. Letā€™s do this!!

Hey all jut an update on decisions. My daughter had an interview last week at the Nursing School and they told her decisions this year will be sometime between May 15 - 20th.

@NYCpapa The nursing school told her?

Yes the person who interviewed her was the assistant director of admissions for the nursing school. At the end of the interview she told her to expect to hear a decision between May 15th - 20th.