The waiting definitely wears on you!
Penn is my daughter’s only choice too…she is in an excellent Nursing program at home (NYC), but also fell in love with the school, the culture and all that the Nursing program their offers. I hope she gets accepted and is able to chase her dream even though it will cost us a lot more money lol.
Coming from a CC in the north east with a 4.0 GPA as a junior transfer to CAS. Applied for the PPE major
Coming from a CC in the west coast with a 4.0 GPA as a junior transfer to Wharton. Applied for the Statistics major
Does Penn actually take into account the difficulty of the university that we go to? Officially they do but I feel like in the process they don’t really care…I have a 3.84 hs gpa and a 3.4 first semester at UC Berkeley, would you guys say that there is absolutely no chance with this?
I’d disagree that you have no chance.
Your 3.4 GPA will be put into context: what you do outside of classes, the rigor/type of classes you took, your intended school/major, your socioeconomic/racial status etc. but also step back a little and consider that there is a good likelihood Penn will also get transfer applicants from UC Berkeley with 3.7+ GPAs.
@grundeis I would hope that they take the rigor and prestige of your current institution into consideration. Similarly, I am a student at Lehigh University who is trying to transfer with a 3.84 GPA. I assume that they would value a GPA from a prestigious school slightly more than a GPA from a community college, but I’m not sure. Anyone else have an opinion on this?
They definitely take all of the things you all mentioned into account, but when it comes to transfer apps I think the essays explaining why you want to transfer and why Penn is where you feel you belong is extremely important in their decisions making. All of the applicants they are considering are strong students with great stats. @grundeis keep your head up you definitely have a chance. Good luck to all of you!
I think Penn definitely considers the university because ‘grade inflation’ does exist across universities and also because at some places, students are graded on a curve (i.e. relative to their peers instead of absolute marks).
Additionally, when I applied to transfer, Penn wanted to see my academic record/GPA at Penn as an exchange student. I also had to submit records from my domestic university.
@genedorbust There are definitely a lot of people applying from Berkeley with nearly 4.0 GPA’s, and from what I understand Penn views all applications from one school at the same time.
How important are SAT scores as a first-year college transfer? I have that 3.4, but a 1590, 35, and two 800’s subjects. Again, from what I heard, since there is a noticeable downward trend from the high school records to the Berkeley GPA, that is even worse than if the high school record was a little weaker?
@grundeis As a 1st year transfer they definitely look at the SAT and High School transcript because they don’t have a lot of college courses to use as a guide. I am not sure if it is weighed as heavily as when you apply as a freshman, but your 1590 definitely helps you.
Who else is applying from UC Berkeley? What are your stats?
Does anyone else have missing documents? I sent me high school transcript and college report (my school sent it) back in early February but it still not reflected on my portal.
Hey @lolhalp I am also missing documents. I have had transcripts missing for a while, as well as a college report. So, I emailed them and they asked me to resend and to upload unofficial copies on the applicant portal. So I did that today and hopefully they will get them uploaded soon. That is the case for a lot of my applications. I applied to 10 schools, have 4 complete applications, 2 pending college reports that have been sent twice, and 4 still awaiting transcripts. Hopefully those will be received and processed soon so my applications can be considered.
I would recommend that you contact all schools that still have documents missing and find out if it is still within a reasonable processing time. Penn’s processing time for documents is 48 hours (per my recent email).
@JellyPeeps thank you! I sent all of my high school transcripts, as well as my request for college reports at the same time. All except Penn have received my documents. I emailed them back in March and they said not to resend things and to check Mid-April which is not really helpful but I think I might have to resend them.
I emailed Penn as well about missing materials, got a pretty curt email to not resend anything and that they’ll do everything mid-April. That said, they updated my materials almost instantly after that.
@bvbchamps I have found them to be the least friendly of all of the people I have interacted with, unfortunately.
Do you guys thing they start reviewing applications before or after mid term reports are due?
Hi @bros20000!
From what I understand, I think that they may review applications before mid-term reports are due.
My opinion stems from my mid-term report having been waived.
Either they found that my performance at the university I currently attend was measurable with the courses/credits I have earned
OR
they ruled me out in terms of potential ability, saving time and increasing the efficiency of their application process.
The latter is more likely to be true than the former, unfortunately in my case.
However, what these circumstances exhibit is that my application was looked at in some way for the mid-term report to be waived.
I hope this helps!
Was Anyone else’s mid term report waived and @TurboPlo I don’t think they would waive it already and make it that obvious that you are denied so I think maybe it means that they think u are really good and don’t need to check the report for you and u are accepted