<p>I've got a few schools i'm narrowing it down to for transfer options, here they are.</p>
<p>Michigan
Northwestern
Rice
Virginia
North Carolina
Notre Dame</p>
<p>My stats in high school weren't good enough to get into these schools, however, I wasn't a total slacker (3.7 GPA, 1300 M+V SAT). </p>
<p>What will these colleges want to see me get in college for be to be considered a solid transfer candidate? Is there a certain GPA? I heard basically anything above a 3.5 is an admit for the easier schools (like Michigan, Virginia, North Carolina), and the others are a crap shoot (Rice, Notre Dame, Northwestern).</p>
<p>I understand getting involved with clubs is very important too. I'm looking to transfer after a year for sophomore status. My current school is Michigan State. I had good high school extracurriculars (sports, orchestra, etc.). I'm a white male from Michigan (Mackinaw City). </p>
<p>Also, does applying early help at these schools as a transfer? Only Michigan I applied to out of HS (was rejected), so a lot of these schools will be seeing my application for the first time. I'm wondering if they want me to wait until winter when I will have college 1st semester grades.</p>
<p><em>rolls eyes</em> 3.7 yea total slacker....</p>
<p>no anything above a 3.5 isn't a guarantee...for UMich,UVA,UNC to GUARANTEE it you'd probably want to get a 3.7+. And for the more selective privates you'd obviously want as high as possible.</p>
<p>also I don't think any of those schools have early decision/early action for transfer students. I may be wrong, but I've only found one school so far that has early action for transfer applicants.</p>
<p>I said I wasn't a total slacker. However, I wasn't in the top 10% either. Also, that GPA is weighted. Unweighted and only academics it's more of a 3.42, so i'm not the smartest kid out there, but i'm not stupid.</p>
<p>When they look at my high school transcript, are they going to essentially focus on my senior year? Because my senior year GPA was a 3.77 (3.44 unweighted academic).</p>
<p>it all depends on the college...rest assured that if you apply for sophomore standing, they'll be paying attention to at least your junior and senior year in high school, and possibly your sophomore. They need to get an idea of how you've done over several years. That is why people with bad high school grades (not like yourself - you did a bit better than me) get two years worth of grades at a college before attempting to transfer.</p>
<p>Oh, and I haven't ruled out transferring to USC and Texas as well.</p>
<p>For USC you're going to want a high GPA as it's getting harder every year.</p>
<p>U-Texas isn't too hard to get in OOS, but it depends. If you want to go the business route, McCombs accepts about 10 OOS people a year. So the outlook is grim. What are you majoring in?</p>
<p>I got in to VA with a 3.15 GPA 1st year</p>
<p>pihiplyr13 - ok, well definitely still try, but you need some safeties. trust me when i say that, for an instate applicant like myself, McCombs is more like a safety/match if one has the grades. For an OOS applicant, they took 10 last year so it is a reach for ANYONE. I only know of one girl on CC that got into McCombs OOS this year and she was an international with RIDICULOUS stats and ECs...she was also accepted into Wharton as a transfer, if that tells you how difficult McCombs makes it for OOS transfers.</p>
<p>b-school of University of Texas-Austin</p>
<p>Okay, I won't apply then, I mean I have a good safety in my current school (Michigan State) so I don't have to transfer.</p>
<p>On second thought, I don't think i'm going to apply to USC or Notre Dame. So my schools are Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia, Northwestern, and Rice.</p>
<p>You should certainly still apply if you want, but in all honesty Ross is better than McCombs anyways and it'll be cheaper for you...as well as pretty easy since you're in state. You're lucky. I was interested in Ross but my chances as an OOS applicant are pretty slim, so I took it off the list. It's crazy that I'd rather apply to selective private universities than OOS public ones because I think my chances will be just as good, if not better.</p>
<p>UNC-CH isn't too hard to get into, but I think you have to spend a semester just at UNC before you can get into the b-school. Correct me if I'm wrong. I dunno much a/b McIntire. Northwestern was decent at like 30%, but last year it supposedly dropped to 17%, so it's hard for anyone. I think USC takes a TON of transfers. You might check out the USC transfer thread to see what kind of stats ppl accepted this year had. I know USC overall took over 2,000 students, which is not too common for private universities.</p>
<p>Notre Dame reportedly accepts about 30% of transfer applicants, but I'm not sure how the business school fares. That's what sucks...you can almost always get an idea of how many ppl are accepted, but the business school is a different story. In the case of UT, they accept a LOT of transfer students, but the transfer rate for instate students into the business school was 11% last year (about 70 out of 700 something) That's really low comparatively, and I'm sure many other universities with top business schools are similar. </p>
<p>I know NYU Stern was pretty nice this past year. NYU overall took 31% of transfer applicants, and Stern took 28%.</p>
<p>Thanks for the help brand.</p>
<p>I want a school that's good in business, close to Michigan (like anywhere in the midwest and it's surroundings, less than a 10 hour drive) or a comfortable campus setting, and will meet 100% of my need. Also it would be nice to have some good sports.</p>
<p>Texas doesn't meet 100% for all applicants. Also, the school is predominantly in-state students, i'm looking to meet students from all over, not just all counties of Texas. </p>
<p>Notre Dame is 85% catholic, and I don't even go to church, except for funerals and weddings. USC is too far as well being in California, and in a dangerous part of LA.</p>
<p>So i'm just doing Northwestern, Rice, Michigan, UNC, and UVA. I know Rice doesn't have business, neither does NW, but I really like both schools, so i'm applying anyways, haha.</p>
<p>how hard/easy is rice to get into via transfer?</p>
<p>any rice transfers this year?</p>
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<p>Rice accepts 25% of applicants usually...not too easy.</p>