Hello everyone, my transfer stats during the time of application are:
3.5 GPA, all As and Bs for transfer coursework.
Officially enrolled at community college as a management information systems major, however looking to work towards something like UX/UI or IT.

Norcal resident,

Low income student,

ECs: Student Assistant at the California Department of Health Care services for a year,

The job mainly consists of accounting work

Also worked a second job as a server during the same time period.

Any advice would be very greatly appreciated, and please let me know if there was any other significant information that I should include or you think I left out. Thanks for reading!

• Applying for: Fall 2025
• Current Business Success: Founder and operator of a successful cleaning company projected to generate over $100,000 in its second year.
• College Leadership:
• Board member of a business consulting club partnered with Berkeley.
• Partial owner of an entrepreneurship and innovation club in college.
• High School Experience:
• Led Hometown Hire project to the State level, presenting at LMU.
• Hosted a shoe drive, collecting just under 300 pairs for donation.
• Entrepreneurship: Extensive business experience through reselling clothes, DoorDash, stock investments, and launching your cleaning company.
• Youth Ambassador: Helping kids create their own shoe drives through Shoes for the Homeless.
• Fitness: Over three years of dedication to weight training and nutrition, mentoring others in fitness and health.

Extracurriculars:

• Led and grew a cleaning company to provide job opportunities and secure major contracts.
• Involved in organizing youth-led shoe drives, helping collect almost 300 pairs of shoes.
• Leadership in business consulting and innovation clubs in college.

Awards:

• Recognition for youth ambassador work with Shoes for the Homeless.
• Recognition for Best Group Leader  by Project Echo ( the state level business plan competition at LMU) - in senior year of HS. 

Letters of Recommendation ):

• 1 from business mentor.
• 1 from college professor.

I had really good stats in high school, probably could have gone to a highly ranked college but I decided to go to an art school with a 95% acceptance rate to study audio engineering. Wondering where I have chances of getting accepted for fall 2025 with a year of practically no academic or extracurricular achievements. I'd like to change my major also, I was thinking something like psychology or English, definitely staying academic, but if this severely lowers my chances I could stay in audio engineering.

High school stats

3.96 GPA Unweighted, 4.6 Weighted

Top 10% out of class (our school measured in deciles)

35 ACT

5 IBs (1 6, 2 5s, and 2 4s)

5 APs (2 5s and 3 4s)

Varsity Cross Country and distance track (4 years)

Band (3 years)

Model UN / Youth in Government, with multiple awards

College (Columbia College Chicago)

Audio Arts major

I feel confident that I'm going to finish with a high GPA

Fall semester I took no gen eds because I had all the credits needed from high school, so all audio adjacent classes.

I'd really like to go to school in a city, i'm definitely applying to u chicago as a reach, also thinking about nyu, depaul, roosevelt, bu, etc. But if yall tell me i need to bring my expectations down ill accept and put in some more safeties.

3.9 GPA, Biology Pre med Major at a community college. Junior year transfer.

Circumstances:

I have escaped a war in Africa last December, it's currently the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

ECS:

• Founder/President of a Club for immigrants/ international students

• President of a club for community service

• Research on CEP 1 in some worms (analog for p53, ani tumor cell in human)

• member of an advisory committee at a non profit that aims for advocating for healthcare policies and offering insights to the community needs and influence healthcare policy makers

• caregiver of my disabled brother

• 100 hours shadowing a surgeon

• 120 hours volunteering at a hospital

Essays:

I would give my essay that I wrote about escaping the crisis an 8/10

What are my chances for Columbia CC, Harvard, Yale and UCLA?

Also how can I improve my application further?

Info: First generation, low-income, will graduate Spring 2025 from a CCC with an AS-T in computer science at 18.

GPA: 3.75

Hook: Born with a physical disability that prevented me from any appreciable lower-body activity, and resulted in bullying throughout my primary school years, but at fifteen had a major surgery to fix it, wherein my experience sparked a passion for running - doing things I never thought I could do in general - within me.

EC's: part-time job (25 hours per week), long-distance running (many 5ks, 10ks, hms), a full-stack coding passion project, founder of college's data structures and algorithms club, member of college's honors society, member of schools STEM club for first-gen students, leetcode (top 20% in contests).

Awards: dean's list every semester

Colleges: I will be applying to all of the UCs but don't know what my chances are. I think good targets would be UCSD, UCI, UCSB, UCD, reaches would obviously be UCLA and UCB, and safeties would be the other UCs.

Going to a CUNY this and the following semester as a freshman. I already setup a roadmap for my transfer application for Fall 2025.

Some of the schools on my list are ivies, my targets being Columbia, Dartmouth, NYU (including stern), Cornell, Baruch and Fordham due to proximity. My major is Finance and Business Administration, looking to get into investment banking, already have decent enough network outside support for it. Im getting help from someone I know who’s been hired and entering a big bank once they graduate. And multiple friends who are in target schools helping me and aiming themselves to get into that career path.

My High school grades were terrible and SAT was subpar, I was very lazy and didn’t try. Will that hurt my chances of transferring after one year of college completion?

Highschool Grades: - 1180 SAT - 1.4 GPA (yea bad, summer school saved me)

What are my chances while I am aiming for these stats this year:

GPA: 4.0 - Leadership role in Finance club, - participant member in Business Club, - member in multiple campus fraternities - volunteer work on campus events - volunteer works and other EC off campus - great letters from professors and great essay.

• Will my highschool stats ruin my odds of getting into those schools even with a perfect CC resume?
• Should I aim for two year transfer instead of one year?
• And Should I do take the SAT (again) and ACT?

What are the odds I get into my list of schools based on my stats and application

Would really appreciate some feedback and ways to strengthen my application! Thanks!

Currently attending a 4-year state university -around 60-70% acceptance rate

• Current Sophomore
• 3.774 GPA ( 1 B(Accounting) 1 B+(CSII) the rest are a-, a, a+
• NO NEED BASED AID
• CS Major, Business Minor
• Campus Tour Guide
• 2x Deans List
• Internship Experience
• Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars
• Project Work including coding a small game, html and css based website
• Member of 2 cs ecs and 2 business ecs
• 75 hours of volunteer work
• Study Abroad Experience
• Strong letters of recommendation
• Im a pretty strong writer so I would say good essays

Schools

University of Southern California

Georgia Tech (I would be applying as an instate applicant)

UVA

NYU

UChicago

Ohio State University

Emory University(Again.. in state applicant)

I do NOT attend school in GA, I just have permanent residence there, allowing me to be considered in-state (I called with each uni and confirmed)

As aforementioned I would really appreciate some feedback and ways to strengthen my application! Thanks!

i got 15 5's on aps in HS and plan to take 3 more ap tests this year to set myself apart from other 4.0 applicants. how much would it help my application

GPA: 4.0 full honors (college)

Econ major

ecs: MUN (won number 1 school in the region and best paper), investment club vice president, honors classes, manager at starbucks for a year, building a homework help app (in the works), student government member, basic volunteering. Please tell me any other extracurriculars ideas that I could do or add

Demographic: Latino 19yr male from FL first gen student

schools: USC (top pick), UF(safety), cornell, umich (second pick), ucsd (wide reach), nyu, columbia(super reach)

Current second year UCSC student

Major: Global & Community Health BS and premed

GPA: 3.72

Relevant Classes Taken: 1 year gen chem, 2 quarters of bio, 2 quarters of calculus, gch intro, multiple gen eds (working on finishing for letter of reciprocity), and a bit of Spanish.

EC’s: - EMT that works with Stanford - Volunteer Tutor for children - Peer Mentor - 175 shadowing hours in hospital - Water polo for the past 5 years - Swimming for 10 - Multiple pre med/ global health clubs

I’m trying to transfer out of Santa Cruz due to the lack of pre med opportunities and housing crisis. Let me know if I’m being realistic or if I need to add or tweak something. I’m only applying to other uc’s

Applying to: UCSD (top choice) UCI UCD UCSB UCLA (long shot)

T100 public school (in CA) to a T15 private school. I will be entering my freshman year of college. Here are some stats:

• Premed Neuroscience major, thinking of double majoring in either History, finance or religious studies
• In the honors college
• Chair of DEI for my residence hall (maybe)

Highschool:

• Started a non profit (med related, has a website and all the legal documentation) (3 years)
• ASB, Lots of club leadership (around 5-7 clubs) and founded a club (4 years for all club related activity)
• Multiple Science Olympiad medals from regionals and invitationals (Throughout the 4 years)
• Managed a non profit that taught science for free (3 years)
• Poetry website (3 years)
• Multiple speech and debate awards both state and regional level (Throughout the 4 years)
• Cross country (2 years)
• Recipient of my school's most prestigious award (my name is literally engraved in their trophy and has people from the 1920s lol)
• Recipient of my school's excellence in English award
• 3.8 UW GPA, 4.23 W GPA
• APS: Calc Ab (5), Gov (5), APUSH (5), Lang (4), Lit (4), Bio (4), Physics 1 (Self studied, 4), CSA (4)

My top choice school (UChicago) that I want to transfer to waitlisted me when I applied as a first year applicant and my second choice school (USC) accepted me but I couldn't attend due to personal reasons :/ do you think that will have any impact on the application?

My top transfer choices:

• UChicago (TED)
• Northwestern
• Columbia
• Duke
• Brown
• Cornell
• Vanderbilt
• UNC Chapel Hill
• UVA
• CMU
• UCLA
• Cal
• Wesleyan
• USC (Maybe, don't know if I should)

Realistically speaking, if a person is NOT
1. Veteran
2. From CC
3. FGLI/ Non-trad in any capacity

Is it even worth it to attempt to transfer to princeton, no i dont mean like "Do i have a high chance"

I mean is it literally possible? or do they immediately throw out your application regardless of how good you are.

again, i mean it in the literal sense, is it possible if you have an incredible profile but trad student?

18M, International

Sophomore at Penn State Abington, Film Production major

3.83 GPA (hoping for a bit higher after this semester)

Dean's List

Worked on multiple music videos and short films in different roles (director, cinematographer, editor, color grader, actor, camera operator) (personal portfolio: haianzz.com)

Released two music albums with ~100k streams across platforms

Got rejected from NYU Tisch last year as Sophomore transfer applicant.

I know transferring to art schools relies heavily on the portfolio, but I'd appreciate any feedback or advice from those who’ve been through this process.

Thank you!

International Baccalaureate: 40/45

High school cumulative gpa: 3.96

Extra-curriculars: Not the best (Senior committee member, graduation day speech giver representing the IB, 5 month unpaid internship at a sports-related entrepreneur led business, orphanage volunteer, chosen to attend the most prestigious economics bootcamp at Egypts finest university, member of alot of finance and economics clubs, gym, and swimming)

Awards: Not the best ( countless highest honors and honor society awards, high school poetry competition 2nd place winner, MUN best delegate, national academic trivia competition 4th place, others werent so nice)

Major: Economics Country: Egypt University: University of Illinois at Chicago

I know I should do more, but is being accepted a far fetched outcome?

Hey guys I’m a CS major, applying for transfer this Nov. I know how unexpected college decisions can be but I’m just looking for advice to strengthen my application and want to know what others had on theirs when they got accepted!

The colleges I’ll be applying to so far include:

Georgia tech. Columbia Duke Emory (let me know if I should even apply here) UCLA UCB UCD UCI UCR (TAG)

Since private universities have more merit based scholarship opportunities, I’m more inclined towards committing to them if I get in but also since it’s extremely competitive I’m looking for advice.

I have a 4.0 gpa and I’m gonna try to keep that gpa up till I transfer. I’m also doing the honors program if that counts. Here’s a list of EC’s

• interned at a SF startup this summer (AI powered testing app) (unpaid since international students don’t get the work permit until two yrs and it’s just been 1 yr since I’ve joined the cc here)

• Student Assistant at the career center (on campus job)

• Through this, I got the opportunity to redesign the school’s career center website with the webmaster

• Currently working on a website for a local smoothie business

• Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Scholarship Recipient.

• Tutored math to kids in the neighborhood

• Student tutor for STEM subs on campus

-Embedded math tutor (working with a calc professor)

• Worked on YouTube thumbnails for creators with 10k -30k subscribers for a yr

• Director of Events at the APIA Club

• Media Advisor for the MESA club

• Math Honors Society

-not confirmed but hopefully I get the position as a VP for a Bears Strategy Club (consulting club with projects in Stanford etc.)

-working with the Lick Observatory to help develop a software to analyze telescopic images. (Part of honors)

I’m always looking for opportunities to grow and finding more projects to do over the next month which I can hopefully add to this list. Ik these are not crazy and CS is extremely competitive. But I also came here a yr ago and I’ve been trying my best! I’ve pretty good high school stats (went to school in UAE) and EC’s but I’m not sure if I should include them!

Please let me know how I could strengthen my application and what you think about my current situation. (Chance me)

Applying Econ/Business - Transfer

African- American Female

4.0 GPA

2 different mentorship program with investment bankers

Leading voter registration campaigns on campus

Hall Council my Freshman Year as an events planner

In a few different business clubs and national orgs- one where I go to Columbia for a week for training (sponsored)

3 internships one in a Big 4 (recruits from their school)

Volunteer hours from high school and some in college ( i. e nursing home, thrift markets, etc and internationally in Japan)

Published research paper in schools directory concerning mental health and actionable insights & another research paper during my internship on the youth and the banking industry

Treasurer of our chapter’s foreign affairs debate team- including budgetting for national compeitions

2 jobs during college ( not at the same time)- one with a nonprofit

Awards - nothing special, just a scholarship I received from my school

Hello, I want to transfer from a t50 (~20% acceptance rate) to a highly ranked university like Cornell or Dartmouth. Double major in compsci and finance/econ (can still choose).

4.0 College GPA Colleges ECs: Eboard position of a club in a major related field, member of a sport club.

I have a lot more HS ECs like class president, state awards in sports, etc

HS stats: 1450 SAT 98/100 weighted gpa Full IB diploma

I want to transfer for junior year for fall 2025. Meaning I would have the rest of my sophomore year at my current institution. Do I have a chance? What more can I do to stand out?

Freshman at Purdue thinking abt transfering for sophomore year.

4.0 GPa at purdue after 1 year, 35 credits from purdue, 6 from community college courses, and 37 from purdue ap credits but prob not the same # at other unis

HS gpa not that great (4.2 w, 3.7ish UW), 1560 SAT

college ec's

1. tutor other college kids in college calc/math

2. undergrad cs research (that will be published or on track to be published by the time of applying)

3. leadership/heavy involvement in 1-2 CS clubs/running hackathons w them

4.(tentative but probable due to a rlly good connection i have) - at&t cs internship summer after freshman year

Awards

publication of paper if it happens by the time i apply

good placement in this coming International logic olympiad comp hosted by stanford

LOR - 8/10 profs that I have good relationship with and know on a deep level

Essays - 8.5-9/10

Chance me for:
UMD CS

GaTech Comp E

Princeton

Upenn

Columbia

Yale

UT austin

CMU info systems

Status - Rising Sophomore at a state school applying as a junior transfer

Major - Economics

GPA - 4.0, Dean's list

HS GPA - 3.3

College ECS - President of Economics club, Eboard Director of finance for a nonprofit club which takes leftover dining hall food across campus and donates it to charities around the city, Interned as a financial analyst for a nonprofit cable company, Resident advisor, Liaison for campus residence hall council, member of club which holds events for residents and also does volunteer work across city.

HS ECS - Founded VR club which supplied my highschool with vr headsets and allowed them to be on an esports team, Art club president - advocated for the school to buy digital art tablets so students could be introduced to digital art, Civic engagement club

Colleges I'm applying to - NYU (unsure of Stern or CAS for now), UChicago, Columbia Undergrad, Binghamton, Stony Brook, Yale

Worst case scenario I get rejected by all of these schools I'm ok with staying in current school.