<p>SATs:
SAT I: 2280 (800m 780w 700v)
SAT IIS: all over 700 (Math IIC, literature, US History)
The thing about my high school grades and my 1st semester freshman grades is that I had no idea what I wanted out of life then. I had an epiphany about 2nd semester that I wanted to be an investment analyst for bulge bracket iBank. Since then, I've been driven to do as well as I can, hence the 4.0s. </p>
<p>Being at JMU, I won't be able to make it to a bulge bracket no matter how well I do since the contacts and recruiters just aren't here. I could do that at UVA or Cornell.</p>
<p>I also retook my SAT and SAT IIs after studying for them to get my scores higher for the transfer app. </p>
<p>Can you elaborate on "Investment Analyst" at BB bank? Banking, Research, Trading? What type of product group? What type of product? Don't fall into the same trap many aspiring finance types fall into.</p>
<p>I just went through this process: check out University of Michigan as well. Cornell's b-school is fantastic (its called the AEM program in the CALS school) and I don't have much experience with McIntire - except you transfer in as a general student, then have the option to apply to McIntire.</p>
<p>My final GPA will actually be a 3.75, possible a 3.85. I don't know if it gets rounded up or not to a 3.8 or 3.9. But, I really want to get into an Ivy for the college of business. </p>
<p>Doing that pretty much guarantees me an interview and a job for what I want to do when I get out. Getting that job will make it much easier getting into a top 5 MBA (Kellog, Stanford, Wharton, Harvard, MIT Sloan)</p>
<p>Some of my ECs: ultimate frisbee, Madison Investment Fund</p>
<p>What are my chances for getting into Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University and Yale University?</p>
<p>Okay, Princeton doesn't accept transfers. At all.</p>
<p>And you probably shouldn't just apply to Ivies, because while they are prestigious, and may help you get into a top five MBA, they aren't necessarily more useful than other schools which also send graduates into those programs. Also, to my knowledge, none of them have transfer rates over 15%, and most of them are much lower. Not good odds, no matter what your GPA and scores and ECs are.</p>
<p>Also, my father went to Princeton, and he has said that he has found it surprisingly detrimental in business. He thinks that it was worth going for the education alone, not for the prestige. He says that very often people are put off by it, and that many of the companies he's worked for hire mostly UChicago, UVA type grads over Ivy grads. Which is no reason not to attend an Ivy, but it is something to consider if you're hell bent on going just because you think it will get you into MBA programs/good positions. If you do well at another top tier school, it could help you just as much.</p>