Graduated from a VA high school, currently attending ASU WP Carey Business School (AI in Business major). I was not accepted at NYU, Cornell, UVA and other business schools that I applied last year. Ended up at ASU because of my dad; fall semester GPA is 4.06. Really want to transfer to NYU, Cornell, UVA or Virginia Tech.
Intended Major(s)
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
Unweighted HS GPA: 3.2
College GPA: 4.06
ACT/SAT Scores: 1400
No awards
No extracurriculars except for self-studying options/futures/stocks trading
Essays/LORs/Other Working on the transfer essays
Schools NYU CAS, Cornell, Fordham, UVA, Virginia Tech, Georgetown
I think that all of these are reaches, or perhaps range from reaches to high reaches.
With only one semester of university (admittedly a very good semester) your high school grades are going to matter. For NYU, Cornell, UVA, or Georgetown your high school GPA is on the low side. Your SAT is very good for most schools, but low for Cornell and Georgetown. I would guess that your best chances would be at Fordham or VT, but I still think that these are reaches.
To me it looks like you are doing very well at ASU. You can do very well with a degree from ASU. If you want to apply to graduate programs in the future, then you can also get into very good graduate programs with a bachelor’s degree from ASU.
Do you have any financial constraints? If so, then is ASU affordable? Also, if so then have you checked that the schools you are applying to meet full need for transfer students?
I do not see any harm in applying, as long as you also keep up your excellent results at ASU. However, I think that there is a pretty good chance that you will not get any acceptances from this list. If this happens, then keep doing well at ASU, and look for internship opportunities.
On rare occasions we have seen threads from a student who applied to transfer, but then by the time that they heard back have either decided that they like their current school, or find internship or research opportunities that are so good that they decide to stay where they are. This is perfectly okay. Even if you do get in somewhere, you can stay put. At least I have not heard of there being such a thing as “ED for transfer students” and I both expect and hope that it does not exist.
An “AI in business” major sounds like an interesting major. I was a math major way back when, and I am expecting that there is some math involved in this major (which is a good thing). I think that what you are studying now looks like a good and interesting option, and it sounds like so far you are doing very well.