<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am a freshman currently studying engineering at Virginia Tech. I have no problems with the school and am comfortable here, but a month here has convinced me of two things:</p>
<ol>
<li>Engineering is not what I want to major in</li>
<li>I really want to go to school in a big city, not just a college town</li>
</ol>
<p>Right now I am planning to switch to studying business in spring and then apply for transfer admission next fall, but I would be interested in transferring this spring as well. However, I also understand that it is more difficult to transfer after only one semester.</p>
<p>The kind of atmosphere/area I am looking for is really similar to Penn, but I don't care about a name-brand. The things i'm looking for are:</p>
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<li>Located in a large east coast city</li>
<li>Have a good business program</li>
<li>Campus that is integrated into the city environment</li>
<li>If possible, somewhat transfer friendly or allowing of transfers after only one semester</li>
</ol>
<p>If anyone could suggest some schools to look into that fulfill even some of the above things, that would be great.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>UMD- Large campus, right outside of DC, you can apply for spring, great business school
Georgetown- in DC, hard to get into, expensive, good business school
Villanova- I’m not sure if they have a business school
NYU- Sounds like its what your looking for.
BC- in the burbs
BU
Northeastern</p>
<p>Like surf said, NYU fits all of those with the exception of number 4. Stern is not transfer friendly at all and they have the lowest acceptance rate for transfers out of all of the NYU divisions.</p>
<p>What are your stats and how much can you afford to pay?</p>
<p>NYU was the first school that popped into my head. Stern is fabulous and it’s in New York- can’t get any more urban than that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies everyone. NYU is the kind of thing i’m looking for, but is out of my price range. Probably 30k per year is the most that I am looking to pay unless I got into an Ivy League school. The difficulty that I’ve encountered is that I only get in-state rates for Virginia schools and there are not really any schools in Virginia that match what I’m looking for.</p>
<p>My high schools stats are:</p>
<p>Weighted GPA of 3.919
SAT (2400 scale) of 2230</p>
<p>I don’t have quick access to my unweighted GPA but off the top of my head it’s around 3.6-3.7.</p>
<p>Few suggestions:
University of Pennsylvania (maybe too competitive - esp for transfer)
University of Virginia - Charlottesville (maybe does not satisfy cond #4)
University of Maryland - College Park
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Carnegie Mellon University (might be too expensive and not transfer-friendly)
MIT (might be too competitive/non-transfer-friendly)
Boston University (FA is qute medocre)
University of Georgia
Wash U in St. Louis
Emory University</p>
<p>U of Minnesota. Carlson school of Management is great. The campus is integrated into both sides of the Mississippi.</p>
<p>For the money, Virginia will be hard to beat.</p>
<p>Again thanks for the suggestions. U Minnesota and Emory are two places I never even considered that I will have to look into. IndianPwnerDude, it’s funny because many of the schools on your list are places that I applied to out of high school (with varying degrees of success).</p>
<p>I think I have a good list of places to research, but I have one more question. I’m considering dropping my “Engineering Exploration” class which is a two-credit hour class that would have no application if I was to switch into business. There is another week before VT’s drop deadline, so I could drop the class without it ever showing up on my transcript. However, this would leave me with only 13-credit hours for this semester. Would having only 13 credit hours be looked at as a negative in transfer admissions? I would be planning to take around 15-17 next semester.</p>
<p>“Engineering Exploration” sounds like a really easy course. You don’t want to have a 13 credit-hour semester. Just get the A and let it boost your GPA, even if you don’t want to stay in Engineering. It will help you, regardless if you transfer or not. Dropping a course, especially if it results in a W, would be beneficial in only a few situations. That would be my suggestion.</p>