From what I heard, Wharton accepts 7-11 people(3%) every year, whereas SEAS accepts more people. I know both schools are extremely hard to get in, but I think it might be comparatively significantly easier to get into SEAS.
@Faexpopuli From what youāre saying, it seems to me like you should apply to SEAS. I donāt think that one B+ in programming would significantly impact your application and you seem more passionate about CS anyway. But more importantly - What are your real reasons to transfer/go to Penn/go to SEAS or Wharton?
I agree with @NYCPapa, at the end of the day, you want to pick the school thatās right for you. Think about which one you would like more/fit in with more
Hey guys whats up? Iām applying to Upenn as well for a junior transfer in fall 2019 from the University of Toronto for Computer Science. My GPA is 4.0, SAT is 1470, released multiple games on the Play Store, Pearson Scholar, established author, and have launched a startup. What are my chances?
@Tygermas I think this process is so unpredictable that it is pointless to tell you what your chances are. You seem like a great candidate, but unfortunately you never really know what they are looking for or what will put you over the top. All you can do is give it your best shot and hope that is enough. I wish you the best of luck and hope you get a positive response in May!
Hey all, Iām applying to Wharton as a junior year transfer. I am coming from a university in the USNews T50, but my school does not have a strong network in the field I want to work in.
Stats:
Ethnicity/Gender: African American Male, First Generation
GPA: 4.0
SAT: 1450
ACT: 35
Credits Completed: 47, 15 in progress
ECās:
-President of two clubs, one is a social impact club and the other is an investment fund where I am the Chief Investment Officer, promoted after 2 semesters of success in my role as PM
-Mentor at my former high school
Work Exp:
-Summer internship at a bulge bracket bank in private wealth management last summer
-Summer analyst at a bulge bracket bank in investment banking this summer (GS/MS/JPM)
-Part time SDE intern for a startup that has gotten quite a bit of success and has been featured on a lot of popular tech articles this year (techcrunch, venturebeat, google ventures, etc)
Letters of Rec:
-Econ professor
-Former boss,
-Accounting prof
Iām applying to UVA McIntire, Georgetown McDonough, NYU Stern, Princeton, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell AEM, and Berkeley Haas!
For those of you who are sending in a resume, did you put an āeducationā section at the top of the resume? Or did you omit it because they already know where youāre studying?
@transferstdnt99 make sure you put all of your experiences and awards individually in the common app. That is what they are going to be looking for.
Hi everyone, Iām applying to SEAS as a junior transfer. I go to a US News Top 25 school. My school is in the same state of Penn, which I hope is an advantage xD. Anyway, Iām applying to transfer mainly because I changed my major from Stats/Math (freaking destroyed my GPA) to a humanities/social-science-y area, which my school is notoriously weak in.
Stats:
Ethnicity/Gender: Asian-American first generation immigrant.
College GPA: 3.81
Weighted HS GPA: 4.07/4.20 (I know, weird system).
SAT: 2220 (old); 800 Bio E; 800 World History, 780 Math II
ACT: 33
Iām applying to only five schools. I was supposed to apply to eight, but I missed the deadline for three of them (Cornell, Emory, Brown), RIP. So Iām applying to just Penn, Northwestern, UChicago, Vanderbilt, and Duke.
Goodluck everyone! Iām applying to Wharton as a junior transfer as well. Does anyone know numbers for the split between junior and sophomore transfers?
@aussiedude I donāt think they give any breakdowns. They only give you total amount of transfers apps and total acceptances. My Daughter applied to the Nursing school. Anyone else applying for nursing.
@aussiedude Wharton accepts the least amount of transfers, and they greatly favor sophomores. I reached out to a current Wharton student and this is what he said:
āWharton also very much dislikes junior transfers because they have this new āleadership pathā thing. They just banned sophomores at penn from doing internal transfer to wharton their junior year for this reason.ā
I ended up refocusing my essays for CALS/Econ bc of the low chances. Econ students are still able to take Wharton classes and participate in Wharton clubs/events. Hope this helps, and I wish you good luck in this lotto game, cuz thatās really what it is.
@transferszn you are 100% correct about the lottery! It really is a crap shoot. I wish you good luck!
Could anyone chance me. Iām a current sophomore interested in starting my junior year at Penn in CAS Economics.
Stats:
Current Major: Econ w/ Minor in Business
Non-ranked university, small liberal arts
GPA: 3.94/4.0
SAT: 2100 (W:770 M: 610 R: 720)
High school GPA: 3.5 I think
Extracurricular:
(High School)
President of SGA for 2 years
President of Speech &Debate Team for 2 Years, Member for all 4 years
Volunteered at Hospital
Worked at a restaurant for junior year and senior year as a busboy and waiter
Appointed by County Exec to serve on a commission that helps form policy in the county during sophomore year
Ran for a local countywide public office at 18 yrs old (didnāt win, but I enjoyed the experience and campaign work)
(College)
Treasurer of SGA freshman year, Vice President Sophomore Year (led some great campus inclusivity efforts Iām really proud of)
Vice President of College Republicans freshman year
Invited to the White House summer of freshman year to be spoken to by the POTUS and Senior Advisors at a televised event
Vice-President of Student Investment Fund that managed over $300k
Attended several invitational programs at top investment banks (i.e. Goldman Sachs, Citi)
Received an award/scholarship from a top investment bank sophomore year
Received scholarship from prominent hedge fund sophomore year
Will be doing a paid internship in NYC at a top investment bank this summer
Hooks: First Gen African-American, single mom from East Africa, less than 40k a year
Recommendations: 3
One from dean of business school
One from a polisci professor (really good)
One from statistics professor (11/10) awesome and really goes in depth
Also applying to Columbia, Harvard, Duke, Yale, Lehigh, WashU, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, UNC Chapel Hill, Dartmouth, Northwestern, UVA, NYU, Georgetown
Also did a week long seminar program at Harvard for the summer of my freshman year ^
@IvyBound511 this process when it comes to the elite universities is a crap shoot. You never really know, but your stats and ECās sound great! Best of luckā¦you sound like the type of student that will do great things no matter what school you end up in!
I read on the forums somewhere that one year Wharton took 13 transfers of which 5 were juniors. Those chances look slim
The chances overall are slim for any of the schools. Last year Transfer acceptance was around 8% total for all of their schools.
Did anyone get invite to the Penn portal yet? Just wondering because in order to fill out the Penn financial forms you need portal access.
Thank you! @NYCpapa It is indeed a crapshoot (which is why i applied to so many schools lol). I wish you the best of luck.
@IvyBound511 My daughter is the one applying, but thank you! I saw your list of schools if you get into any one of them you would be in a great place!