UPenn Transfer Thread Fall 2021

LOL, never applied to Vandy, never liked Vandy.

Not sound corky, but my son got Duke, why would he wait for Vandy? :laughing:

Because going to college isn’t all about ranking?

We actually visited Vandy 2 years ago. The dorm is so small; it barely can fit 2 people. My daughter says OMG every time we mention that.

For some of you who are waitlisted or rejected, I REALLY get your frustration.

I was waitlisted to four schools and rejected to many others, but all I wanted to say is to keep the faith.

Good luck to ALL of you:-), and congratulations to the others who are accepted.

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oh and I’m withdrawing from all the waitlists and acceptances rn so that many of you who applied to other schools can get your decisions out as soon as possible!

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rejected

Thank you so much! Good luck to you too!

Rejected from my dream school ;(
This one stings for sure.
Congrats to all accepted.

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Rejected. Here were my specs:

Current institution: T5 University in Computer Science

Classification: Incoming College Sophomore (international)

High school GPA: 4.0 (11ish APs)

SAT: 1590

Activities: founded some clubs, one some international/national competitions in business and speech, organized home builds in different parts of Asia (raised ~ 12000USD as president and donated to Habitat), learned motion graphics through independent and worked as a freelance infographist part time, learned web development through independent study to create my portfolio website, worked as a translator for an envirochemical company for high school internship, landed a software engineering internship at a data security firm this summer

I was looking to relax my workload to focus on my personal projects (ivies have ridiculously lax workload compared to cmu/mit/ucb). Seems like I was not the right fit, however. But there are many other factors beyond the applicants’ control, so don’t be so discouraged by a rejection! It’s their loss at the end of the day.

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Hello :slight_smile: apply to Columbia. It sounds as if you would be a good fit there, with your CS major, philanthropy and creative efforts with website development. New York has unparalleled opportunities , especially in your field.

Thank you for sharing! You seem like such a strong applicant and so did everyone else. Crazy how admissions at ivies work. That’s why I was saddened to get rejected but I’m not so bummed actually because I know it’s really unpredictable. Good luck to everyone with finding the school that’s right for you and congrats to anyone who got accepted!

I also got in. Should we exchange contact?

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Can’t believe I literally wrote “one some competitions” instead of “won” lol. Thank you guys for responding to my poorly written post with positivity :slight_smile:

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AHAHAH that’s funny we all make mistakes

Is anyone having problems setting up the PennKey? It says there are “no valid addresses” when I try to set it up.

Me too! Are they supposed to email us directions once we commit? Or is there a link to follow?

I have no idea! I emailed them yesterday. Hope that they’ll respond to my Email.

I’ll keep you posted as well!

Have you guys paid the deposit?

yes I have

I have too! For those of you who are committed, do we have some sort of group chat or anything? I’d like to make one if we don’t!