chances of Harvard transfer?

Transfer Students
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<p>I am writing my application now for transfer in my junior year. I am a sophomore at university of Pennsylvania, and am majoring in finance and EE (Wharton and Engineering). I would really appreciate an evaluation of my credentials, and where else I should be applying to.</p>

<p>SAT:1440
SAT2:Physics:790 MathsIIC:790 Writing:730
collge GPA: 3.91
recommendations from ‘best of the best’ professors from Penn, one from the chemistry department, and the other from the finance department. 2 extra recommendations from a maths professor who knows me very well, and a maths graduate student who witnessed my coming first in calculus3, which is a course on differential equations, advanced linear algebra, and infinite series.</p>

<p>EC:

  • joined and sang in a competitive a capella group since my freshman year.
  • International affairs association
  • Koreans association
  • UNICEF
  • tutoring chemistry, physics and maths
  • Over summer, I worked as a sales and exports manager for a health supplement company in Korea, which was not doing so well at the time I joined. However, with my market research I discovered a niche, and consequently the business has now made many contracts with hospitals in Korea. With increasing customer scale, the business is bound to succeed and predicted to raise revenue of approximately $10 million by the end of 2005.</p>

<p>I am from a school in New Zealand, which does not disclose GPA
In my high school, I was ranked 2/100.
EC (high school)

  • chairman and co-founder of International students association.
  • board member of UNESCO
  • house council member (student government)
  • chess club master
  • mathmatics tutoring
  • school’s stock market competition team leader
  • recipient of North Shore scholarship, ASB bank scholarship.
  • official piano player for school’s formal occasions, including commencement and graduation ceremonies.
  • piano/keyboard player for church (3 years)
  • church choir (3 years)
  • youth group leader (2 years)
  • organizer of periodic volunteer service at Auckland chapter of World Association of Milal (for autistic children)</p>

<p>Unfortunately, I never really found a passion in my life, and I hope to find passion in my studies at Harvard, through its well-diversified liberal arts curriculum.</p>

<p>Anyone out there to give me useful advice?? If my credentials are at ‘Harvard’ standard, what should I keep in mind when writing my application?</p>

2

<p>Please, anybody, I know there’s got to be at least one person who has something to say about my thread…</p>

3

<p>Well you definitely have a shot I’d say… 3.91 at Wharton is about as good as a transfer applicant is going to have… but Harvard takes like less than 6% of transer applicants I think, so you can’t really bank on it as a sure thing either (although I’m sure you realize that).</p>

4

<p>I was waitlisted applying as a freshman, and harvard interviewers told me that this could play a role. </p>

<p>I will have a maths minor by the end of spring semester too.</p>

5

<p>Why the freak would you transfer from the Jerome Fisher program…</p>

<p>Harvard is not as great as Wharton you know and your finance credits would mean crap there.</p>

6

<p>Well, I just love Harvard. Furthermore, Harvard is one school which will offer blind aid to international students.</p>

7

<p>You won’t be able to finish in 4 years. You know that right?</p>

<p>I’m applying to both Wharton and Harvard as a transfer. I think they are equally great. I was a research assistant at Harvard during the summer; I know how it is there. I don’t see why someone would transfer from a promising school, with a promising track record, into a school of similar caliber.</p>

<p>You will get in, period. Harvard should be the only school you should apply to… other schools are not worth it.</p>

<p>Unless you have taken intermediate theory classes at Penn, you will probablly end up being an engineering/math major… and NOT a economics major. I seriously don’t think you can finish in time there.</p>

<p>If you want to do finance, stay in Wharton. Harvard and wharton have equally good connections. If you want to physics/math, transfer to Harvard.</p>

<p>Don’t be stupid and transfer to another school simply because you love it, it’s absurd.</p>

<p>Evaluate my chances for Wharton please.</p>

<p>Target Schools: Harvard (Stats/Econ Major, Chinese/Math Minor), Penn – Wharton (Finance, Econ, Stats, Major Chinese Math Minor), Yale, Chicago, NYU - Stern, Northwestern, Cornell, BC, Michigan, Columbia.</p>

<p>HS Stats:
Freshman GPA: 2.3
Sophomore GPA: 2.5
Junior GPA: 3.68 (unweighted)
Senior GPA: 3.87 (unweighted) 4.44 (weighted)
SAT:
1380
SAT II’s:
720 Average</p>

<p>College Stats:
Year: Freshman
College: Rutgers University
GPA: 4.0
Classes: (17 credits)
Calculus
Regression Methods (400 level applied statistics, hardest offered here)
International Economics (300 level class)
3Honors Classes</p>

<p>Current semester: (17 credits)
Econometrics + 2 Intermediate econ classes that uses multivar calc
Calculus
484 Stats
Stats programming class (380)</p>

<p>I can actually graduate with an econ/stats degree next year.</p>

<p>EC’s:
Fed Challenge NY Federal Reserve Semi-Finalist (HS) (Presentator)
Fed Challenge NY Federal Reserve Champions (Presentator)
2nd place in national competition
Harvard University Economics Department (research assistant)
Rutgers University Economics Department (research assistant) – Worked on a working paper to be published in the Journal of Finance
Financial, International and Monetary Policy Columnist for School Newspaper
Money Manager/Founder of Hedge/mutual fund
LIBOR (Investment Banking Club)
Publishing a research paper, possiblly in Barron’s</p>

<p>Internships/Jobs
Dow Jones - Barron’s
Bear Stearns - Investment Bank
I work 40 hours a week on Wall Street
Summer:
Probablly at a $1 Billion hedgefund</p>

<p>Recs: (All three should be great)
Undergraduate Director of the Economics deparment here.
Private Sector Economist who I have worked with.
HS Fed Challenge Advisor
Undergraduate director of the Economics department at Northwestern… I guess I will get in there…</p>

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<p>I sent out my app for Harvard.
Should I apply to Yale and Stanford?</p>