transfer chances to ivies

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>i am applying for transfer to yale, harvard, and cornell, nyu stern
i’m male, persian</p>

<p>top 3 New England boarding school:
3.5 GPA uw
prefect
peer leader
honors classes and ap
trumpet throughout highschool
dean’s list</p>

<p>SAT 1: 1410/2180</p>

<p>AP Calc AB: 5
AP Micro Econ: 5
AP Macro Econ: 5
AP US History: 4</p>

<p>Babson College:
3.6 uw
babson investment banking
babson investment management
community activities board
honors classes
placed 3rd in Pricewaterhouse Coopers accounting challenge
dean’s list</p>

<p>essay topic:
leaving a business oriented curriculum in preference of a well rounded education</p>

<p>EC:
part of a student run business, operations event chair
interned at investment firm over summer
interned at local business while in boarding school
community service at old folks home
worked at a refinance company for mortgages as sales person
member of sons of american revolution
member of sons of the revolution in NY</p>

<p>legacy at cornell</p>

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<p>What are the top 3 boarding schools? Did you apply to Cornell as a freshman?</p>

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<p>i went to one of the top 3 boarding schools… Choate, Exeter and Andover…and no i didnt apply to Cornell as a freshman</p>

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<p>They are not objectively the 3 best but let me guess, you went to Choate or it wouldn’t be on your list of top 3. In fact none of those 3 is among the hardest 2 preps to get into these days.</p>

<p>I hate prep school arrogance and I went to Andover. The big 4 in preps are AESD.</p>

<p>Cornell maybe, don’t see the others.</p>

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<p>NYU Stern may also be a possibility–although you’ll need to have a different essay for that application.</p>

<p>As far as top boarding schools, I’m not sure Choate would make the top 10. But then the #1 toughest school to get into is hardly even mentioned on this board–it is the Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate.</p>

<p>Since they’ve only allowed two non-Hawaiians to ever go there, it has to rank as the toughest to get into. And their current $7.7 billion endowment fund dwarfs all other high school/boarding school funds in the US by a factor of at least 12 to 1. (I think Andover’s fund, which is second, is around $530 million).</p>

<p>Of course, because it is limited to only Hawaiians, it probably shouldn’t even be considered with the others–which don’t limit admission based upon state of birth. Thus, I would agree with suze’s statement that AESD are the cream of the schools. That’s Andover, Exeter, St. Paul’s and Deerfield for those who aren’t familiar with the schools.</p>