New Discussion Is there any chances for me to get transfer to Northwestern or Rice or NYU in 2019?

Transfer Students
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Hi, i’m sophomore student in Troy University here is my profile:
Overall GPA: 3.50 (going to be 3.70 this semester)
SAT 1400
I’m taking to 3 SAT II tests this year : MATH 2, LIT, physics
but I might screw up in this quarter because I am too busy,

Major: Business, i’m going switch to Economics or computer science

EC’s/work:

AIESEC’s global volunteer participant in Sri Lankla in this year
Attendee of two AIESEC programs
Delegate at Model East Asia Summit 2017

Courses :3 MATHs, 4 courses on writing and literature, 3 courses on History and Arts, 1 course in Musics, 3 Economics courses

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Question: Why are you taking SAT II Tests as a rising junior applicant?

Northwestern, NYU, and Rice do not require SAT Subject Tests from rising junior applicants.

I think you’ll be a solid applicant for all three of those schools. But, with selective schools such as Northwestern/Rice, it will ultimately come down to whether your academic reason to attend these two schools is strong enough.

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So should I apply more universities or not? I want make sure that I will have a lot of opinions when the transfer results are announced

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You should add some schools that take a lot of transfers to your list. Rice admits some transfers, but if you are class of 2021, transfer into that class at Rice will be difficult as that class was very overenrolled freshman year. For 2017-2018, Rice had 555 transfer applicants, admitted 54, and 30 enrolled. Check out the Common Data Set of the schools you are considering to glean this information. https://oir.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs1496/f/2017-18%202.%20CDS_2017-2018_WEBSITE.pdf

I can’t speak to how many transfers NYU or Northwestern take, but they are also highly selective. If you like Texas, apply to SMU which admits a large number of transfers. For example, at SMU 829 applied to transfer, 601 were admitted and 279 enrolled. https://www.smu.edu/-/media/Site/ir/commondatasets/2017/CDS_2017-18_Part_D_Transfer_Admission.pdf?la=en

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Northwestern University will be very difficult based on your posted information.

Are you in need of significant financial aid ? If so, NYU is an unrealistic option.

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@xyzzyn: To be blunt, I think that you would be wasting your time & money applying as a transfer applicant to any of your three listed schools based on the information shared about you in this thread.

Consider SMU.