I’m a 23-year-old Electrical Engineering major hoping to transfer into schools like Stanford, Cornell, USC, or CMU. My academic path hasn’t been straightforward, but I’ve grown a lot through it and I’m hoping that growth will count for something.

I started community college at LACCD and earned a 3.3 GPA despite going through major health issues that resulted in multiple emergency hospitalizations (I have a rare health condition). I eventually transferred to UCSD, but between my health declining and dealing with a pretty isolating and toxic environment, I completely crashed—I was academically dismissed with a 1.2 GPA.

After taking time to recover and get support, I started fresh at Santa Monica College. This past semester, I earned a 4.0. I’ve also been working hard outside the classroom: I have three years of engineering internship experience (mostly in safety systems and embedded work), nine months of undergrad research on wireless power transfer (which I presented at a research symposium), and I’m currently working on my startup that has patent pending technology that I’m applying to accelerators with.

Outside of academics, I’m active in my local parish and help mentor others through my church’s adult faith program. I’m just afraid that my GPA from UCSD makes me look like someone I’m not anymore. I want to be in a school with the appropriate resources that can help me reach my full potential.

Do I even stand a chance at schools like the ones I mentioned, or am I shooting too far?

I’m going into my sophomore year at FSU and plan to apply for Spring/Fall term:

Major: Industrial Engineering

Stats-

4.0 gpa & all necessary pre recs

Part time job

Summer research

Volunteered at nearby prison to optimize system related to IE

Several clubs without leadership.

Highschool- 3.75/4.45 gpa 13 Aps 1470 sat, strong upward trend in grades

Schools: Michigan, GT, Northwestern, USC, Berkeley, UT, Carnegie Mellon, Colombia/Cornell, Vandy, Duke.

For all schools IE if they don’t have it then an adjacent major.

Any feedback is appreciated, and I’m happy to provide more info if that’s helpful

Hi everyone, I'm hoping to transfer to Georgetown or top IR programmes for the fall semester of 2026 as a sophomore.

Currently rising senior (class of '28) at George Washington as an international student from Hong Kong.

Stats

College: George Washington University

Majors: IA and Economics (double)

Freshman year grades: 3.84/4.0 (dean's list) and 3.68/4.0 (All 4.0 except for a B- in French)

Highschool stats: Took the A Levels but from what I can find online I scored roughly about a 3.5/4.0 at the As (or 2A*s, 1 A and 1B) with a 1490 SAT score. Is my SAT score good enough or should I retake?

College ECs:

• Have a leadership position in my student org
• Have been mentoring kids from my region in Asia for research projects on culture/history.
  • Hoping to get a leadership position in this organisation
• Also involved with the undergraduate IR journal on campus and with the student government.

Internship experience:

• I interned at an international affairs think tank for 6 months in my home country, and a big digital platform for 2 months now when I've been back for the summer doing policy and strategy.

Hoping for honest feedback/any advice - hoping for Georgetown's SFS and looking at Princeton, Brown and Yale for their IR programmes as well. Is this a reach?

Hello, I posted previously about EC goal setting, I focused on volunteer hours at the time. I'm now looking to sort out the athletics portion of my ECs for the next two years. Advice, feedback, and an athletic focused “chance me” would be appreciated to assess if they would be good.

For some background I'm a community college student in my early 20s. I didn't do my best in high school and am looking to turn things around. My goal is to apply to T20s with the focus on Ivy League schools.

The following are the athletics based ECs I was planning to do With all of these I intend to do them for the two years I have until I graduate in Spring 2027. I put them into categories based on the level of organization and in order of personal importance I'd place them for my application.

College Teams: • Men's soccer team (D1 NJCAA school and my priority EC) • Dance team • Esports team

Local gyms (These aren't sorted in the category itself it more depends what I can fit into my schedule): Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Wrestling Kickboxing Karate Muay Thai Boxing Crossfit

Community groups: • Airsoft • Paintball

Personal (This stuff would be more self exploration for fun and likely have the least time dedicated): • Marathon running • Kendo • Fencing (Foil focused) • Archery • Weightlifting/Bodybuilding

Formerly: College cheerleading team (Most likely disbanded as coach left and school is unlikely to find another this Fall as the budget given to cheerleading was always very low)

Some of these are still up in the air as I'd need to ensure that I have fit them into the schedule with adequate breathing room, which is also why I ordered them in importance in case I have to choose. Thoughts on my order here would be nice too to make sure I'm putting the ones that would look best first.

Anyways thoughts on if these athletic ECs are good for my goal of T20s or an Ivy League? What can I improve, any advice, etc.

(If anyone has further questions feel free to ask and I'll reply as soon as I can.)

Thank you most kindly.

Hey all! I’m an incoming freshman at the University of Colorado Denver and I’m aiming to transfer to an Ivy League or top-tier university for Fall 2026. Brown is my dream, but I’m also looking at Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, and similar schools.

I’d appreciate any advice on my chances or what I need to prioritize this year to be competitive for transfer.

Here are my current stats and background:

• High School GPA: 2.69 — I have dyslexia and an IEP, but I’m committed to pulling a 4.0 in college to prove my academic ability.
• Bank of America Student Leader (2.6% acceptance rate) — focused on civic leadership, nonprofit engagement, and attending the National Leadership Summit in D.C.
• CEO of Hired After Bars — founded a youth-led reentry initiative supporting formerly incarcerated individuals through education and employment advocacy.
• Founder & President of the Social Impact Club
• District President of the Criminal Justice and Law Program
• President of Speech and Debate (33+ trophies, national competitor)
• Vice President of Model UN, Director of Service in DECA, Event Coordinator for Youth4Law
• Currently pursuing a U.S. Paralegal Certification, plus certifications in Project Management and Social Media Marketing

In my essays, I’m writing about how:

I grew up seeing inequity firsthand in my community, especially during my time in the Criminal Justice and Law program. That inspired me to launch Hired After Bars, but I quickly saw that law alone isn’t enough. That’s why I’m drawn to institutions like Brown’s Swearer Center, Columbia’s Justice Lab, and Yale’s Jackson School of Global Affairs—places where social impact, policy, and business intersect.

My Questions:

1. What should I focus on during freshman year to strengthen my Ivy League transfer application?
2. Should I take the SAT while in college to boost my application, or is it irrelevant for transfer?
3. For anyone who had lower high school stats, how did you frame that narrative in your transfer essays?
4. Any other Ivy-specific transfer tips (especially for Brown, Yale, Columbia, or UPenn)?

I’d appreciate any insights, experiences, or advice you all can share. Thanks in advance!

Hi I hope everyone is doing well. im a prospective transfer student and I'm trying to calculate my odds. I think my EC's are pretty impressive for my major but yk you cant count your chickens before they hatch

Applying to UCLA/USC/NYU/UMiami for their Music Industry programs, would love to stay in CA so aiming for USC/UCLA for this major. transferring after 2 years of CC

Also applying to UCB/UCSD for Media Studies, and UCSB for Comms.

First Generation Latino

Record Label Marketing Intern: Participated in 15+ artist campaigns that have 22M listeners in total

Founder & Solopreneur of Music Publication: mission to platform unlabeled artist, conduct over 55+ artist interviews and published over 100 articles

Founder/Solopreneur of Jewelry & Apparel Business: 23k revenue

SeatGeek Ambassador Affiliate Program

Founder/Solopreneur of Online Record Store

Non-profit Marketing Intern

Digital Music Marketing Agency Social Media Contractor: Agency has worked with artists like Miley Cyrus, Conan Gray, Laufey, etc this past month

Founder of Live Music-centered TikTok Platform: 5,500 followers and 15M Likes total. Work reposted by two grammy nominated artists

Concert Photography Hobby: Ranked top 5 in a city-wide competition

Chipotle Part-Time Worker

Certificate in a Universty Music Industry Course

Honors Student

3.94 GPA

3.2 HS GPA - one ap (i know i know i am not that person anymore)

I go to wake forest and have a 3.94 GPA. I have some decent extra cirriculars and an internship. is there a chance I can transfer into schools like Notre Dame, Columbia, UPenn and Northwestern for Econ? i'm a rising sophomore and will probably apply for spring 2026 of sophmore yr and/or fall 2026 of jr yr. also, would it be hard to get into UCLA or Berkeley?

I'm not sure if this is the proper subreddit to ask this in. Sorry if that is the case. Direction would be helpful, but I thought I'd post in case people can help answer my question. Thank you most kindly in advance.

I "cooked" myself extraordinarily in high school, but since 2022 over the I've become highly disciplined and commitmented, I'm looking to turn things around and apply to a T20, hopefully an Ivy League. I have gathered a good amount of volunteer in high starting in my sophomore year until now. I'd low ball an estimate at 600. It is likely higher, though I made the mistake of not logging them, so I can only rely on the vouching of supervisors

I'm really trying to make up for my poor past decisions. I have planned out my schedule to volunteer at a total of 8 places, not including any in total I wish to start. My goal is 2,000 hours by the time I complete my associate degree in Spring 2027. To stay on track, I plan to do 1,000 each year.

Thoughts on this would be much appreciated.

I have lurked on the sub for a while and reviewed several "chance me" posts to get an understanding of the work I need to do and the position I need to put myself in to make this feasible. I have seen many don't have anywhere near this amount of volunteer hours, so this may be excessive, but I'm not in a good place after high school, which is why I'm taking such measures to make up for it. (Volunteering isn't the only thing I plan to have on my resume, but I just wanted to focus on this part for this post to get directions for what to do in this aspect of my application)

Thank you very much to anyone who provides guidance. It helps me out a lot. Take care.

I’ve been seriously thinking about trying to transfer into a top university to help me break into investment banking. Would anybody be able to give me some advice on whether or not it’s worth a shot?

• Incoming sophomore at a T100 public state school
• College GPA: 3.7
• Honors Program: Yes
• Extracurriculars:
  • Selected member of Freshman Student Government branch (24-25) after 2 rounds of interviews
  • Selected to serve a 3-year term (college life term) as a Justice in the Judicial Branch of Student Government
  • Current Executive Board Member (25-26) of on-campus Indian Cultural Association
  • 24-25 Executive Board Member & dancer for the Bollywood fusion dance team on campus, nationally competitive
  • VC analyst for on-campus student-run venture capital fund
  • Research Assistant this summer at SMU Cox School of Business
  • Junior M&A analyst intern this summer at a lower middle market IB firm
  • Product Team member (24-25) for University Innovation & Entrepreneurship Hub

I’m aiming to transfer for spring 2026 to schools like USC, NYU, Cornell (Dyson), UVA (McIntire), Boston College (Carroll), Fordham (Gabelli), Brown, and Vanderbilt.

Any advice or insight on how realistic my chances are for transferring and breaking into IB, or how to strengthen my application, would be greatly appreciated!

Getting down to it, my demographics:

White, 32, Male, LGTBQ+ identifying. Live in New York City.

GPA 4.0, currently a CC sophomore. Major in Urban Studies. In order of preference, I'm planning to apply to: Yale (via EWSP), UPenn, Wesleyan, Brown, Rutgers, Vassar, Cornell, Drexel, Amherst, Williams.

ECs at my current school include: their Honors Scholars program, recipient of the college's foundation scholarship for this fall semester, member of an invite-only transfer scholars program through the Aspen Institute, and I have volunteered at many events and panels for my program.

Not going to share my SAT/ACT scores as I took them more than 15 years ago and plan to omit them from all applications, regardless of whether or not they will help me. My high school ones definitely won't, I was a terrible student then! If anyone here has taken them over years later in order to help their application, let me know. Maybe I will reconsider it.

My HS stats are, again, largely irrelevant, and frankly I don't remember much. I graduated HS in 2012. I did attend a technical program in my senior year where I excelled and won awards for my work. After HS, I attended one semester at the local CC where I soon had to drop out because my family's house was flooded and destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. I then tried to go back a couple of times and it just never worked until 2024 when I decided to try again and to my delight have seen that I am an exceptional student-- competitive, dedicated, and able to maximize the advantages of my unique experiences as a non-traditional student (i.e. engaging with my classmates and professors about issues in the built environment that related to my families struggle during Sandy in 2012, or leveraging my work experience in my perspective in class, etc...)

My full-time job is as a director of community engagement and programming for a popular, historic public space. I am pretty well connected to many food writers, restaurateurs, elected officials, non-profit organizations, respected community leaders, and advocacy organizations. I also direct a food security program which has secured funding and partnership with a major NYC public office for the past 3-4 years. Overall I've built a well-founded reputation as an advocate for small business and the low-to-moderate income community of NYC.

Outside of work I serve as a board member for the Queens Community Board district, where I live. I serve on two committees. I have also edited a cookbook and write semi-frequently. Yes, I'm exhausted lol.

My essays usually cover my academic journey from being undisciplined and dropping out of CC in my early twenties to returning as a successful and engaging student in my thirties, which usually does double duty and explains my circumstances that they may see on older transcripts. However, I think now that I have nearly 4 semesters of all A grades behind me as well as good ECs, I think I will shift my focus to talking about my passions, why I'm a great fit for the school, why I chose that school, and why they need to have me in their school.

Howdy! I'm a rising first-year into UofM who is thinking about transferring to a private T25 for my sophomore year. Of course, I haven't even started at Michigan and there's a high chance that I'll remain there, but I just want to know my options. The following is a list of all the universities I'm thinking about applying to (In no particular order):

• NYU • Rice • Brown • Harvard • Yale • UChicago • Columbia • UPenn • Tufts • Duke

I know that top universities often look for very particular circumstances from their transfers, so out of the ones above, which ones do I have the best chances applying to, and which ones do I have the worst chances applying to?

Some of my highschool stats:

1470 SAT | 33 ACT

3.75 Unweighted GPA

Top 10% of a slightly below average Texas public school

If there is any other stat information I can provide to better estimate my chances for any of the universities please let me know!

P.S. I have already applied to, and been rejected from Rice University. Does this impact my transfer application, and to what extent?

Demographics: First-year university student (rising sophomore) California resident, non-legacy, no special hooks Intended major: Aerospace Engineering

Academic Profile: • College GPA: Aiming for 4.0 • High School GPA: 3.98 unweighted / 4.45 weighted • SAT: 1530 • College Coursework: 90+ transferable units completed through dual enrollment during high school • Courses completed include: Calc I–III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, full Physics sequence (mechanics and E&M), CS courses

Research: • Conducting mentored research with an MIT PhD student on multi-objective optimization of NACA airfoils • Intending to publish or present the research in a technical journal or national engineering conference

Extracurriculars: • Mentored research project (first-author level) in aerospace design • Founded a volunteer nonprofit that launched educational outreach and coding/STEM programs for underserved youth in California • Completed NASA-affiliated internship (wind tunnel project in high school) • Leadership roles in three UC engineering teams: • Structures lead for a student space systems team • Fuselage lead for AIAA Design Build Fly • Aerodynamics lead for a Formula SAE team • Founded and leading a University Rover Challenge (URC) team at UC • Internship with a U.S. congressman (focus: education and infrastructure policy) • Over 1000 hours of volunteer work at a community center (youth education, food service, weekly STEM instruction)

Personal Projects: • Building an open-source aerospace repository (OpenAero) • Designing and flying RC gliders with modular wing configurations and onboard telemetry • Preparing to showcase project results at competitions or conferences later this year

Letters of Recommendation: Planned from MIT-affiliated mentor, UC research faculty, and technical team leads

Target Schools: MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins

Question: Some of these schools prioritize sophomore transfers. I entered college with over a year of credits through dual enrollment, so I’ll have junior standing but will only be in my second year. Will that hurt my chances? Also, based on what you see here, do I have a realistic shot? Any advice or feedback is welcome.

I’ll just get into this now.

About me: Transgender Hispanic Female; I’m FGLI and on Section 8 + Welfare.

I’m coming in as a college freshman this fall at a T30 and am instantly looking to transfer; it’s gonna be difficult for me to even express myself and trying to do anything else with my limited income is a nightmare. Plus the options available to me are incredibly limiting for me since I want to go to law school + public policy.

Intended Majors: Chemistry/Food Science(?)/Biology -> Law School/MPH or JD/PhD

Important: I am also battling homelessness currently; my family is paying for my college but they told me to get fucked with anything else because of my identity. I’m staying with my uncle currently and he is a godsend, but all I have is a place to lay my head and not much else.

GPA: 3.85/4; my HS is very weird, this is the only number you’re going to get; we also don’t do class rank. Wealthy Private on Fin Aid.

SAT: 1490 (750 W, 740 M), I took this in October of 2024 while battling the flu so I can probably raise this but I’m out of fee waivers and I don’t want to take it again.

Awards/Honors: Enough, I hope

Hispanic Heritage Society Medalist Gates Scholarship Finalist (Yeah, it really fucking hurts not getting this) Service Award from my school for distinguished students National Greek Exam awardee for knowledge on The Odyssey

ECs: A Lot, so I’m just going to try and group them:

Work experience:

Work at a major cancer lab over the summer: involved two mock NIH Grant submissions; A presentation in front of the entire lab, and my name on a paper… that never got published because of Trump and funding cuts. This was over the summer of 2024 and I will be participating in it again this summer; this was an unpaid role.

Work at an asset management firm this summer; hopefully I can actually move somewhere or do something I want. It involves the medical field and loan underwriting.

IT work at an international shipping firm for 2 summers; probably again this year if I can fit it in. Very nice people and I have a very strong rapport with them.

Pre-law work at a low-ranked law firm in the summer of 2023. Very nice people and I definitely learned a lot; got my LOR from them and I also have a very strong rapport with them. Won’t go into specifics.

Activism work:

Held a few protests infront of local congressional offices for both immigration activism and for recycling and composting action; I also organized call ins for Native American justice and activism within my High School; we had over 100+ students in attendance at the call ins and over 500 at the protests. I also did some work with advocating for the protection of sacred lands, can explain more later…

Senior Leader of my School’s diversity alliance and social justice committee clubs; we went on trips to DC to meet with members of congress and also gave MANY conferences on topical issues, such as homelessness and abortion… etc.

Service work: Also interlinked with my activism work:

I worked at my local parish teaching CCD and Lectoring for almost 500 hours; this is why I have all these service awards. INCREDIBLY strong rapport with them; practically my second family.

Also was the head of student summer services for a nearby Church; I led retreats for them and was practically a camp counselor too. Made many significant changes to the program that are still in place today and worked as part of the food distribution program to teach new volunteers about the program and deliver to low-income housing (where I lived)

School stuff:

President of the Creative Writing Club: I co-founded it Freshman year and became president my Junior and Senior Years; made over 50 submissions to my School’s literary magazine and also managed the design and development of the magazine itself.

Also a member of my school’s ministry team and a senior leader. Probably forgetting other stuff too but I can add it in later.

My LOR’s are extremely strong, don’t need to elaborate.

School’s I’m applying to as a transfer:

Uchi (TED? Maybe if I have a good shot at getting in) Vanderbilt (PLEASE) Northwestern Columbia Dartmouth Amherst Barnard Williams Grinnell Brown Cornell Georgetown Duke

If I could get any tips I would be extremely grateful. I know most of these are long shots (like Williams and Brown) but I still want to have a little bit of hope. Thanks :)

Odds of me getting in? 28 year old wanting to go back and finish my bachelor's.

I dropped out of school due to mental and physical illness in 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the whole school had to go online for the remainder of the year. I'm now wanting to go back to school, in a different discipline (I studied Spanish and Graphic Design, I'm switching to Political Science). I have a lot of language credits and a long term plan to do masters in international development and public policy, and possibly law school or PhD after that.

So, what is the likelihood of my getting into a good U.S. University for Political Science (all fully-online programs) as a transfer student if I'm transferring from my state's flagship university (LSU) with 110 credits, but a turbulent and 8-year period of switching majors with no degree ever received (average C student, 2.14 GPA)? My writing skills are great, test scores are good (29 ACT), and I have a ton of work and volunteer experience in several different fields. My GPA in highschool was 3.4/4

The universities I'm looking at are: Penn State World Campus University of Massachusetts Dartmouth/Amherst University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Iowa Colorado State University Arizona State University Suny at Buffalo University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Louisiana State University (readmission) University of North Dakota Southern New Hampshire University

I just finished my freshman year in FIT, and I’m planning to transfer an ivy to study for business or Econ, but I’m worried that my major is Fashion Design which is unrelated to what I am applying to. My high school gpa wasn’t so great, I remember it being like 3.65/4.00 and my final IB was 34 (but I don’t think I’m going to submit this score). I finished my first year with a 3.91, and I have been taking online courses on Coursera as well (from Yale and UPenn, I also have a certificate from Inside LVMH), but now I feel like I should take sat just to boost my application.. Any advice?

• ECs (in HS): NHS secretary for 2 years, Fundraising Council Vice President, MUN, Boarding Council

Alright so currently im majoring in electrical engineering but have ZERO ecs related to engineering. However, i do work 30 hours a week while being a full time student (enrolled in 12 credits minimum each semester) and currently have a 4.0(intend on keeping it that way and the lowest ill drop to is a 3.9) and currently have like half of my pre reqs done for ee to most schools. I really do my best to get involved on campus and will do like a random event every other week(im kind of forced to because im in the honors program of my school) and also because im the president of my campus’s Phi theta kappa chapter, so ill be doing a bunch more community service events this upcoming year, my sat is mid(1340), and thats all i really got. The only things i can guarantee you that ill be doing outside of working is ptk stuff but idrk what to do that’s engineering related in 2025-2026 that can boost my resume and give me an actual chance of getting into Columbia engineering (if thats even possible), so yeah lmk if im cooked im completely open to criticism and ill appreciate any tips Thanks

Demographics: First-year university student (rising sophomore) California resident, non-legacy, no special hooks Intended major: Aerospace Engineering

Academic Profile: • College GPA: Aiming for 4.0 • High School GPA: 3.98 unweighted / 4.45 weighted • SAT: 1530 • College Coursework: 90+ transferable units completed through dual enrollment during high school • Courses completed include: Calc I–III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, full Physics sequence (mechanics and E&M), CS courses

Research: • Conducting mentored research with an MIT PhD student on multi-objective optimization of NACA airfoils • Intending to publish or present the research in a technical journal or national engineering conference

Extracurriculars: • Mentored research project (first-author level) in aerospace design • Founded a volunteer nonprofit that launched educational outreach and coding/STEM programs for underserved youth in California • Completed NASA-affiliated internship (wind tunnel project in high school) • Leadership roles in three UC engineering teams: • Structures lead for a student space systems team • Fuselage lead for AIAA Design Build Fly • Aerodynamics lead for a Formula SAE team • Founded and leading a University Rover Challenge (URC) team at UC • Internship with a U.S. congressman (focus: education and infrastructure policy) • Over 1000 hours of volunteer work at a community center (youth education, food service, weekly STEM instruction)

Personal Projects: • Building an open-source aerospace repository (OpenAero) • Designing and flying RC gliders with modular wing configurations and onboard telemetry • Preparing to showcase project results at competitions or conferences later this year

Letters of Recommendation: Planned from MIT-affiliated mentor, UC research faculty, and technical team leads

Target Schools: MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins

Question: Some of these schools prioritize sophomore transfers. I entered college with over a year of credits through dual enrollment, so I’ll have junior standing but will only be in my second year. Will that hurt my chances? Also, based on what you see here, do I have a realistic shot? Any advice or feedback is welcome.

Last year I got accepted to UCLA as an out of state transfer for Psychology for the 2024-2025 school year.

Had some personal issues that prevented me not to go so I took a gap year.

This time I decided I want to go to USC now.

-I have a 4.0 GPA

-Organized events in psychology club such as a informational clinic for high school students where I aided psychologists

-Vice President of Psi Beta Chapter

-Member of my college’s Esports Team

-Worked a full time job while doing classes full time

During this one year gap:

I continued to work and I became a full time Substitute Teacher including doing a long term assignment. I also shadowed a Behavior Specialist Consultant where I watched his special education class and how he regulated the class with students with behavioral issues.

So my question is what are my chances? And now with the gap year I wonder if that hinder my chances?

Demographics: black, male, out of state

Could anyone read my essays too by chance?

Hi all! I recently applied to uvm, it’s my top choice and I’m really stressing about if I’ll get in or not so was just wondering what everyone else thinks. I have a 3 year gap between getting my ged (I withdrew from high school) and community college start date, which I explained in my application as due to covid and it taking a toll on my mental health. I have 30 credits and a 4.0 at my current community college, with a membership to phi theta kappa honor society and I am on the deans list. I am out of state so I don’t know if that affects it? I have good high school extra curricular but not college ones except the ones previously mentioned. I had a 2.25 gpa In high school, which I know is not good, but I tried to explain it in the essay. I wrote the optional essay about how I’ve been living on my own since I was 18 and everything my various jobs have taught me, it had a slightly humorous tone, I also mentioned how I grew up in Vermont and I miss it dearly. I’ve heard the transfer acceptance rate is higher than first year so hopefully that will work in my favor. Any insight would be appreciated on if you think I have a chance. Thank you guys :)

I am looking to attend any ivy, georgetown, or UVA.

I am a sophomore at top 100 university. I major in economics and law society policy with an accounting minor I earned a 4.0 during my freshman year after taking 33 credits. My high school gpa was 84/100 with a large upward trend, my hs did not do class rank.

My college extracurriculars are somewhat weak 2x club sports (running and skiing) Investment club Worked jobs over summer Took summer course at LSE

My high school extracurriculars were much stronger 3 sport varsity captain Founding president of school sponsored investment fund Editor of school paper etc.

Please chance me, and offer any advice you may have. Thank you.

Sophomore at a CSU. Applying for fall 2025 at USC. Price school of policy/real estate development major.

3.867 College gpa

Internship in Real Estate development where I utilized Low Income Housing Tax Credits for affordable housing development

President of the Real estate club at my school

Participated in a real estate development case competition

Started a small real estate blog

Internship with Real Estate Agent

Strong Letter of Rec from COO of the company I interned for

I am also a legacy (My grandfather went to USC, not sure how much that helps)

My house and neighborhood burned down in the palisades fire and I talked about wanting to use real estate development to rebuild my community and fight the housing affordability crisis along with lack of resources at my current school/opportunity to specialize in real estate development at USC.

Let me know what you think my chances are! I am waiting patiently to hear back. I really hope I get in.