Female
Accredited public uni College GPA: 4.0 Consistently made Dean’s Honor list Major: Finance with premed track
College Extracurriculars:
Founder and President of a club to help disabled students part of a competitive dance team
Student Government Senator
Investment Club
DECA
Cultural Awareness Association
Several Pre-med clubs
Research with my professor (possible publication)
Shadowing doctors (over 50 hours)
*Planning to start a charity organization to raise funds to provide educational opportunities in my hometown (rural area) in india
Community Service: over 300 hours Peer Tutoring Volunteer at Hospital
Now here is my concern.
High School:
GPA UW: 2.7 SAT: 2080 (CR: 720 M: 690)
Multiple Extracurriculars
Some volunteering
All AP classes but I got bad grades
My Background:
I was raised by my relatives and I had a hard time accepting my parents after i moved to america. And due to culture shock, bullying at school and mental abuse from parents, i stopped trying. I suffered from depression and probably ADD and I just gave up on life and didn’t show interest towards anything. I tried to end my life several times but thankfully nobody knows about it. I don’t know what i was thinking but i was never able to get proper help from an adult.
Essay: Im thinking about writing about how a loved one died because of inattentiveness of the doctor and how the death shaped my life.
Transferring into Yale has about a 3% accept rate. Viable applicants have exemplary HS records too and an astounding reason why Yale meets their educational goals. YOur target list of transfer schools is simply a bunch of top schools. You may have difficulty explaining why Yale (and those other schools) uniquely meets your goals – especially when you cite your current research as possibly leading to publication.
Yale will tell you to stay put. This applies to the others on your list too.
Although you’ve overcome a lot, the odds are pretty insurmountable as a Yale transfer.
Yale is my priority and I’m only applying to other schools only because the odds of a Yale transfer are low. I decided to transfer to Yale specifically because i realized medicine isn’t my passion and i was forced into it by my parents. I want to transfer to the economics program at yale because it can lead me to opportunities which my current school can’t give me. Yale is a target for investment banking while my school is definitely not. There are many research opportunities at yale while there are absolutely zero opportunities in the management/economics program at my school because most of the funding goes towards stem majors, i like the shopping period at yale and seems like its more open and gives students a well-rounded experience, yale has people from so many diverse backgrounds and i feel like it would be an enriching experiences because i love learning about other cultures, yale has many amazing professors. I came across their lectures online and loved them
As @T26E4 was saying, wanting to leave your current school because it doesn’t offer the resources isn’t a valid reason to transfer to Yale. You must explain in your application essays what specifically Yale offers you that you cannot find from any other college.
**So what does Yale offer you that you couldn’t find at Columbia, NYU, UPenn, UCBerkeley, Brown, Harvard, Stanford, MIT, UCL and your current college? ** Your chances are directly related to the specifics of your answer to that question.
Saying “i like the shopping period at yale and seems like its more open and gives students a well-rounded experience, yale has people from so many diverse backgrounds and i feel like it would be an enriching experiences because i love learning about other cultures, yale has many amazing professors. I came across their lectures online and loved them” is NOT going to tip the balance in your favor as you can find those things at the other top colleges on your list.
Here’s a clue: Successful transfer applicants to Yale (and the rest of the schools on your list) want to study with a specific professor who is the premier authority on that subject. For example, if you have an interest in memory and decision-making, then you might want to study with Marvin Chun: http://psychology.yale.edu/people/marvin-chun. Saying something like that in your transfer application to a college will go a lot father than generalized-dribble.