<p>is it purely a crapshoot?</p>
<p>what factors are the most important in transferring to these type of schools?</p>
<p>GPA, SAT, REASONS FOR TRANSFERRING, WHAT YOU CAN BRING TO THEIR CAMPUS, RECS</p>
<p>you know the drill…</p>
<p>if the above is all good… then you need LUCK as well.</p>
<p>I grew up hearing the following: “You can go to any two-year college, and any four-year college will accept you”</p>
<p>It’s a bunch of crap to be honest. Some factors that come into play are your SAT’s, which you’ve probably taken approx. 2 years ago. Your secondary school (high school) GPA and transcript comes into play.</p>
<p>It’s EXTREMELY hard. Have a back up plan. BACKUP PLAN.</p>
<p>MannyS, I can relate to what your saying about going to any 2-year insitution and getting into any 4-year University.</p>
<p>I was talking to my councelor about transfering into haas since I’m an in-state community college student…and I kind of mentioned how I want to go to Wharton for my MBA later on in life. He’s like “Why wait? Get a decent GPA here and you’ll easily make it in for your BA.”</p>
<p>I think a lot of councelors are delusional of what the true transfer possibilites are, comming from a CC.</p>
<p>Hopefulmagnet, in a way, it may be more helpful for you to attempt a transfer from a community college or Rutgers than from a school like Northwestern. That way, you would actually have a strong, semi-legitimate reason for wanting to transfer i.e. the large gap in educational quality between a CC and Wharton as opposed to the prestige gap between NU and Wharton.</p>
<p>Just my $0.02</p>
<p>Get a really good rec from a wharton alumni
Get a really good rec from a harvard alumni</p>
<p>What college you come from is a huge factor. Most ivy transfers come from other top schools. Also, reason for transferring to the particular school, hopefully you have a major not available many places and profs to support you in that field.</p>
<p>Wharton from a cc would be just about impossible becuase chances you’ve had the material to be competitive with current students is close to zero.</p>
<p>well thanks guys for all of your suggestions. I know that in business, getting your foot in the door for employment is really all about the “name” or prestige of your school. This is one of the underlying reasons of me transferring. But also I think that the education wharton or harvard has to offer is possibly better than that of Rutgers.</p>
<p>Now am I aiming too high with wharton and harvard? I mean is there ANY hope in hell to get accepted as a transfer? </p>
<p>My courseload next year is like this:</p>
<p>Calc III Honors
Expos Writing
Spanish
INtro to Econ
(I’m thinking of adding another course on such as Statistics to help my chances)</p>
<p>any other thoughts?</p>
<p>“Hopefulmagnet, in a way, it may be more helpful for you to attempt a transfer from a community college or Rutgers than from a school like Northwestern. That way, you would actually have a strong, semi-legitimate reason for wanting to transfer i.e. the large gap in educational quality between a CC and Wharton as opposed to the prestige gap between NU and Wharton.”</p>
<p>nutmeg88, I’ll have to agree with what collegekid100 says. Most transfers to Harvard (I’m sure the situation is similar with Penn) come from Ivies and similar schools like Duke and Stanford. Whenever a kid from community college successfully transfers into a place like Harvard or Penn, a big deal is usually made out of it. Frankly, the percentage of community college transfers is quite small at Harvard.</p>
<p>Hey magnetschoolca, how many statistic courses have you taken at rutgers? for wharton it says you need 2 stats with calc prereq. to transfer. im also gonna try to transfer to wharton from rutgers, although i dont think ill get in but its worth trying. what other schools are you looking at? i know if you have a high gpa, you can transfer from rutgers to stern easily, as many i know have done.</p>
<p>alumnus* not alumni( this is regarding my previous post)</p>