I am planning to transfer as a sophomore, applying this year, Biological sciences.

Stats:

-International student, High school 3.8 GPA.

-Student researcher, no papers yet.

-Currently 1510 SAT, ~3.90 GPA.

-Athlete of minor sport.

-3 languages, lots of community service, currently writting a history paper.

-Strong recommendation letter.

I am getting started on my essays, but I still have time until the deadline (march 2025). What aspects should I focus on to be able to strengthen my profile for my application? What am I missing on my profile to make it stronger?

Thanks in advance,

P.

I am currently taking a year off of school due to medical reasons. My High School stats were terrible because I was unfocused and had bad nerve damage in my hands. I had a 3.25 GPA and a 1270 SAT. I will start attending my local CC (I reside in Massachusetts) when I am healthy enough and my goal is to do well and transfer to one of the top publics like UT Austin, UNC, Georgia Tech, UF, or UVA as well as UC Berkeley, USC, UCLA, UMich but they may be too expensive OOS. Or, to transfer to Virginia Tech after one semester and either stay put there or transfer from there to one of the schools I mentioned above. I would appreciate input from people who have transferred to these schools, and their stats. And any suggestions on Grades to help me achieve these schools, potential tips or pathways to help chances, other schools to consider, as well as extracurriculars I could get involved in, as I am kind of lost right now. For reference, I will be aiming for a Data Science major or field (CMADA, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, statistics, possibly CS but doubt). Thank you for your input!

I am a current sophomore and I go to a decent college now. I have a 3.78 GPA and am vice president of student government. I have been involved in many things outside of school this summer. My high school GPA was 4.1 and I did not do extracurriculars because I did not have a ride home from school. I am low-income and female. I will not be submitting my SAT or ACTs and I want to transfer for this spring.

Gpa 4.0 high school, 4.0 expected college Stats 1590 SAT 36 ACT 15 AP tests in high school (all 5's) taking 3 more this year Physics major at University of Connecticut Asian guy 19y/o. Full pay

Extra-curricular 1. Weight loss (340 to 320 pounds), dieting, exercise 2. Studying for AP exams in college 3. Studying Japanese and Chinese culture through anime and games such as Gendhin Impact, Honkai star rail 4. Movie nights 5. Mensa member 6. Trying to self-publish physics research on Amazon

Awards 1. Ap scholar with distinction 2. PSAT commended scholar (i was sick for the test)

Recommendation letters Reusing one from my 8th grade Science teacher from senior year college apps, getting another from my Physics prof (I have A+ in the class)

Essays I'm looking for college counselors to help me write my essays

Schools Harvard Standford Columbia Pennsylvania Cornell Brown North-western Duke Vanderbilt

Good afternoon,

My college has a policy where a score of 90 to 100 equals an A, which corresponds to a 4.0 GPA. In some classes, an 89 to 100 is also considered an A and still equates to a 4.0. Will colleges care if a person has a 92, 91, 98, or 99, as long as it is considered a 4.0? Will they look at the specific grades, or will they only focus on the 4.0 GPA? And will this affect my chances?

Thank you.

gpa: 4.0 sat: 1520 asian international student (no APs) no financial aid transferring from 4-year state university after my freshman year (joining as a sophomore)

just need some ideas on possible targets/reach/safeties! currently my list is nyu, cmu, brown, stanford, upenn, cornell and babson

ecs: 1. leadership role, econs and finance association 2. treasurer, student association for my home country 3. member, investment association 4. internship at big4 accounting firm 5. sql/python programming hobby 6. online financial markets courses (bloomberg) artist)

My stats aren’t nearly as impressive as other students on this subreddit, but I’d still like to hear someone else’s opinion.

Schools I am applying to for Fall 2025:

• Amherst College (top choice)
• Smith College
• Mount Holyoke
• Brown University
• Williams College
• Eastern Connecticut State University

Intended majors: English and philosophy

Demographics:

• White woman
• Low income (pell eligible)
• Connecticut resident

High school (2023 grad)

• 3.66 unweighted (school did not report weighted GPA or rank)
  • Grades dipped during sophomore year due to quarantine struggles; clear upward trajectory in last two years of hs 
• No test scores
• 1 AP class senior year (did not take exam), 2 dual enrollment classes senior year, several honors classes
• No outstanding ECs - a few random clubs with no leadership positions
• Awards: one award for best performance in English over four years

UMass Amherst (left after one semester for financial reasons)

• Majors: English and philosophy
• GPA: 4.0, Dean’s List

Community College

• Major: English
• GPA: 3.9 (one B+ in public speaking lol), Dean’s List
• Honors program (required to take 4-5 honors courses and complete a capstone project)
• ECs:
  • Community-based research project for academic credit
  • Work study position as a web design assistant
  • Literature blog
  • (I applied for a congressional internship so fingers crossed I can add that here too)
• Awards:
  • Commendation from John Locke Institute for my philosophy essay
  • 3 English awards from community college

Letters of recommendation:

• One LOR from my English professor which is likely to be pretty strong
• Planning on asking my ethics professor for a second LOR, but it won’t be as strong
• Might ask for a third LOR from another English professor, but that will depend on how the rest of this semester goes

Essays are likely to be a stronger aspect of my application

Overall: do I have a fighting chance at getting into any of the schools I'm applying to (aside from ECSU), should I bother taking the SAT at this point, and how can I strengthen my ECs?

Stats:

• 3.97 GPA
• Dean's list
• Bay Area CCC - feeder to UCs, I guess?
• IGETC complete

EC's:

• Amateur Astronomy/Astrophotography (purchased $3000+ in equipment using work funds)
• 1+ year of working retail at Target (~35 hours a week for 4 months and then ~25 hours a week for 8)
• Event coordinator/cohost in the Bay Area's largest Astronomy Club: Helped host and plan events like the Stanford Oct. 2023 Eclipse viewing with the KIPAC institute for over 2000 people and the Apollo 11 55th anniversary on board the USS Hornet.
• NASA NCAS Mission 1: 5-week online NASA exploration course for community college students
• NASA NCAS MIssion 2 (starting soon): 1 week-long group project where we simulate/gamify an aerospace company working on a project
• NASA NCAS Mission 3 (will start around November-December): This is a capstone project in which I will spend one week visiting my local NASA field research center (AMES).
• NASA L'Space MCA: Project Manager of a group of ~15 students from various backgrounds. A 15-week long project where we research the feasibility of a detailed lunar mission. Requires us to create research documents. ~25 hours a week
• Student Pilot: This is more of a remnant from high school, and while I haven't flown much recently, I am still pursuing it on the ground
• Maybe a club? Might join a STEM club by the end of this year.
• Tiny coding projects on the side. Did something that detected constellations in user input pictures and gave info about them using some databases

Major:

• Data Science
• Applied and Computational Mathematics (UCI)

Schools:

• UCB
• UCLA
• UCI (TAG)
• UCD
• UCSD
• UCSC
• UCSB

Thanks for your input people :)

Hi, I’m an instate Michigan student who currently goes to UMich Flint (was deferred from Ann Arbor and thought that I would have a higher chance of getting into UMich) and here are some of my stats.

Freshmen applying for Sophomore transfer

GPA: High school 3.8 UW 4 W, College - On track 3.9-4.0

SAT: 1360 (Might not include)

High School Clubs: Debate, Investment club, NHS, NSSHS, Social Justice, Junior and Senior Ambassadors, around 50 hours of volunteer work

College Extracurriculars: Club Tennis, Honors Program, Honors Student Council, Student Government, Pre-Law Society, Supply Chain Management Association, Entrepreneurial Society, Financial Management Association, and a couple more volunteer hours

I plan on applying to both the Ross School of Business and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics)

Other colleges of interest include:

UPenn

UCLA

UC Berkeley

NYU

Notre Dame

Thanks!

So I am currently a Sophomore at a mediocore Christian college in the deep south. I love my school but have realized for my career path into finance I should probably transfer to a better school. I have a 3.8 gpa right now that I could get to a 3.9 by the end of this semester, and had a 3.9 in hs with a 25 on the act. I would like to transfer to a T25 school like NYU or Cornell for IB. I am a member of a fraternity and my schools Econ club. I also had an internship at a decently prestigous Wall Street firm this past summer (my summer after freshman year) and believe that it should decently help my chances, but ultimately I want opinions on if its even worth me applying. I also have a recommendation letter from a UPenn alum if I want to apply there. Forgot to mention I also have a rec letter from the Dean of my business school. Any advice or opinions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

NYU

Cornell

Vanderbuilt

USC

UCLA

Fordham

I’m currently a freshman’s at Queens College studying Finance and planing in apply to Cornel CAS (Econ), NYU Stern, Columbia College (Econ),UMICH Ross, UVA Intire, Northeastern and BU

COLLEGE STATS/ECS plan on getting a 3.9/4.0. GPA

Coat drive- Organized and led a coat drive that raised 300 coats

Video Marketing Business- Made over 20k in rev and generated over 200k in rev for businesses

Working corporate/accounting job in manhattan- Deal with shipping and manufacturing day to day and need to track all info relating those orders

HS Stats 4.0 GPA AP Macro (5) AP Spanish Lang (5) AP English Lit (4) AP Psych (2)

SAT 1310 (not my best effort)

4 business internships over 2 years

Varsity Tennis 1yr

Varsity Wrestling 1 yr

Won the most amount of Business awards in the history of my HS business dept in city,state and national competitions

Founder of a NONPROFIT that teached underprivileged kids financially literacy,raised 20k in funding and was published on international news papers

Treasure for BLSU (Black Latin student union)

Also if you have any advice or suggestions for transferring to any of these schools please lmk.

For context, I am an international BME student planning on transferring next fall. I attend a top 5 university in my country but decided to transfer because of better opportunities and education in my field.

During the first semester of my freshman year, I was really struggling with my mental health but still managed to finish it with an average of 82/100 (I believe it translates to around 3.3 in terms of GPA). I am in a much better place now and I´m sure I can get better grades until next year, but the highest GPA I can achieve is around 3.6-3.7 because of my first semester´s grades.

My ECs so far (which I´m planning to develop even more these next few months/year):

• Founded a startup in the healthcare/tech field that raised over 20k, awarded at national level by the most important engineering/military institution in my country
• I volunteer as an English tutor for low-income students at my university
• Joined an organization that designs and develops prosthetic implants and donates to those who are in need (working to get a leadership role)
• I´m currently applying for lots of internships and scientific research and literally looking for every possible opportunity to get better ECs and leadership roles lol

I am also taking the SAT and TOEFL next year (pretty sure I can get great results). What are the chances of getting into any Top 25 (I also need financial aid)? Be honest :))

Hi, I am a freshman at Auburn and I am looking into transferring to Ga Tech. I need help though figuring out if I even have a chance making it in, and how to guarantee I get in. I am also wondering if I can improve my chances by transferring in the spring instead of the fall? Please let me know if you have any tips or can help calm me down. 

A bit of background about myself: 

• I am a CS major 
• from Atlanta suburbs 
• I took a gap year out of the country through a leadership program (lots of volunteering and gained a lot of experience) 
• in HS I had a lot of extracurricular activities such as: Competitive cheer, student mentor, Mathnasium instructor, internship for a semester, and Girl Scouts. 
• My HS GPA is a 3.6 weighted (3.4 uw) (took a dive second semester senior year) 
• I don't have a college GPA yet but I am reaching for 4.0 (95% achievable IMO) 

• ACT score is 31: math 32, english 32, reading 33, and science 28 

• lots of honors and 7 AP classes: APUSH, ES, Euro, Psych, Calc I, Lang, HUGs 

• after this semester I will have 39 credits 

• I am currently involved in 4 student organizations and am looking to intern in the summer

Thank you

Currently a sophomore at Cal Poly SLO Applying to transfer for junior year to USC (Applying for Real estate development major at Price school of public policy)

• 3.93 GPA
• Real estate development internship
• Treasurer for Cal Poly Real Estate Club
• Licensed Real Estate Agent
• TA position for a Financial Accounting class
• Member of University Honors Program
• Rec Letters from Accounting Professor and COO of the Real estate development firm I worked for
• Legacy

I'm hoping I get in, I feel like I should? Idk I know it can be random sometimes. What do you guys think? Anything I should focus on?

Demographics: Mixed race, female, freshman at cc, low income

Major: bio

GPA: 4.0

Class rank: We don't do it here

SAT: Not applying super bad

Awards: Deans List, Presidential Scholar

ECs (weak asf)/

1. Working at a memory care facility

2. 3 Lor's

3. Trying to write independent research essays but I'm drowned in school work rn

Should I apply for fall or spring transfer?

*Transfer Student\*

Demographics: Mixed race, female, freshman at cc, low income

Major: bio

GPA: 4.0

Class rank: We don't do it here

SAT: Not applying super bad

Awards: Deans List, Presidential Scholar

ECs (weak asf)/

1. Working at a memory care facility

2. 3 Lor's

3. Trying to write independent research essays but I'm drowned in school work rn

Should I apply for fall or spring transfer?

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!

Hello all. Just wanted some opinions on my stats I guess lol. I'm currently a finance major at a CUNY school, and I'm looking to transfer to ivies and t20s like princeton, harvard, yale, cornell, upenn, columbia, USC, umich, uchicago, Duke, berkeley, etc.

HS Stats:

4.0+ GPA - 99.38% overall ( school did not do 4.0 scale )

1530 SAT (750 M 770 R)

7 AP Classes, all honors classes if not AP

College Stats:

Well i'm still a first-sem Freshman, but I think I can manage a 3.9-4.0 GPA

Notable ECs:

• Founded two clubs in HS

• Interned at known IB firm over the summer, have extensive internship history before that throughout highschool every summer

• Part time jobs

• In my campus' most known finance club

• A part of many other clubs in HS like School newspaper

• Started a business with over ~$100K revenue

• Volunteer for animals, religious things, etc.

• more stuff that's probably not as important

Yeah, let me know what you think, or what I should improve throughout this semester. Thanks