Junior Transfer Stats and Possibilities

HopefulyTransfer
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:18:27 +0000

My past few years in a nutshell. During my high school years I never paid any attention to college applications nor did I really know anything about college. I didn’t even let anyone read my application essays! Actually i was fighting with my ex-girlfriend as I was writing them for the UCs. So after one year of college I think I’ve grown more than I have in the past 18 years of my life.
After being sent to the fields of Merced and learning a great deal about myself, I mean what else can you do when you’re surrounded in all directions by hundreds of miles of agriculture?!, I feel I have done better in class and have been more involved on campus thus improving my chances of getting into better college. I mean I don’t mind the miles of agriculture I guess, but the name of the school is basically non-existent. I’m not all about the prestige of the school, but I know employers do take into consideration where you earned your undergraduate degree. So I started my college transfer search like like anyone would, the internet. I googled a college business undergraduate college ranking list and picked some schools I’ve heard of and schools friends are currently attending. I haven’t checked the transfer requirements or GPA requirements for getting into these awesome schools other than Berkeley and USC, but I was hoping this thread would shed some light on the application process and my chances of transferring. Don’t be afraid to be brutally honest, I’ve grown up enough to be able to take a little criticism but not enough to stop making those ridiculous faces.

I am current a Management Major, but if I were to transfer I would like to do Entrepreneurship, International Business, or Management.

Schools I am considering:
Cornell
Brigham Young (Marriot)
NYU (Stern)
Boston College (Carroll)
USC (Marshall)
Virginia (McIntire)

High School GPA(unweighted): 3.3
SAT: 1800
EC: Captain of varsity basketball team
Member of UNICEF

UC Merced
College GPA: 3.625 (after first year)
EC: Vice president of Finance for the Business Society
Student Programming Assistant for Housing (fall semester)
Member of Student Affairs Advisory Committee
Student body president’s marketing assistant (spring semester)
Member of Collegiate Alumni Foundation
Played Intramural football(champions) and basketball

Fall Semester 2007
Core(GE): B-
Economics: A+
PreCalc: B
Writing 10: B+
FALL GPA: 3.25

Spring Semester 2008
Chinese 1: A
Accounting: A
Calculus: A
Ecosystems of California(Science w/o lab): A
SPRING GPA: 4.0

Cumulative GPA: 3.625

Classes I plan on taking

Fall Semester 2008
Environmental Engineering 10(Science w/ lab)
Economics 10 (Statistical Inference)
CSE 5 (Introduction to Computer Applications)
MGMT 100 (Intermediate Microeconomic Theory)

Spring 2009
Hopefully my schedule allows me to sign up for these classes in the spring.
MGMT 25 (Finance)
MGMT 101 (introduction to macroeconomic Theory)
Chinese 2
Political Science 1 OR Psychology 1

Open to any suggestions or feedback you would like to give me. I’m oblivious to this whole transfer process and my chances of getting into a top-tier school. Searching through those university websites for transfer requirements is such a pain. I thought this would be much more interesting and productive.