<p>I just finished my junior year at a public university, where I am a full ride scholarship basketball player. My GPA is 3.2 and I’m a finance major. My freshman and sophomore years I had my mind wrapped around basketball and wasn’t thinking about a career outside of playing professional basketball. My junior year I developed a passion for financial analysis and would like to transfer to a top tier undergrad business school with a great finance concentration. My GPA would have been a lot higher if I had this mindset for my first two years, I was on the dean’s list both semesters my junior year, as well as numerous awards from our athletic department and conference for academic success. I would have some influencial letters of rec. Would the fact that I am willing to give up my full athletic scholarship to a respectable basketball program to transfer to a respected academic institution help since my GPA is only 3.2. Especially since basketball requires a dedication of at least 60 hours a week to practice, workouts, conditioning, etc. not including travel and missing class. I also have hundreds of hours of community service and am a member of three clubs at school as well as student athlete advisory committee. I would also be able to write an amazing essay. </p>
<p>I am more than willing to give up my scholarship and repeat a year if that is what is required of me. I have researched some of the top bschools northwestern, u of chicago, unc, virginia, nyu, penn, and they take anywhere from 65-75 hours and I already have 92. I would be willing to give up the extra hours I have!</p>
<p>Is there any chance at ALL that I can get into ivy leagues with such a low GPA, being the captain of a d1 basketball team, and numerous ec’s?</p>
<p>Please let me know your thoughts everyone!!!</p>
<p>You need to go each of the college websites to find their transfer policies. But since you’re an entering Sr and would be applying for 2010, chances are slim they’d even consider you for transfer admissions. Y for example:</p>
<p>“If you have received a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) or if by the end of the current academic year you will have completed more than two full years toward the degree, you are not eligible to transfer to Yale, nor may you apply through the freshman admission process.”</p>
<p>Why don’t you just graduate and apply for an MBA?</p>
<p>Entomom is almost certainly right. I don’t know that any of the colleges you mentioned takes senior transfers at all, even if they offer to shed credits to look more like juniors. Furthermore, the premise of your “plan” is crazy – that giving up basketball will make you more attractive to a prestigious institution. The fact of the matter is that if you are a quality D-1 basketball player, you could probably have transferred to many of them just for asking after your freshman or sophomore years, if you were willing to commit to playing basketball there. (Obviously, this would not work as well for UNC as it would for NYU.)</p>
<p>Your best course of action is almost certainly to finish your undergraduate degree where you are, taking the best, most challenging classes you can. Then you can go one of three ways: (1) apply for MBA programs immediately, (2) apply for non-MBA masters programs in finance, or (3) get some job experience before doing 1 or 2, with 1 being a lot more likely after job experience. </p>
<p>D-1 athletes with actual brains usually don’t find it overwhelmingly difficult to get jobs in the financial sector (although this year could be an exception to that rule – for everyone). Alumni and booster connections can help, and that’s not a bad thing, as long as you will be in a position where you can learn and enhance your skill set.</p>
<p>With rising undergraduate grades as you found your area of interest, some job experience with enhanced skills, and decent GMATs, you should be a good candidate for a high-level MBA program. Your basketball resume will help you there – a LOT if you are a well-known player, but a nice little boost even if you aren’t.</p>