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I am an upcoming freshman at SUNY Buffalo University and I am planning to transfer to Cornell during the next fall semester of 2008. It is my dream school and I really want to attend there by trying to maintain a college GPA of atleast a 3.8. Since there is a great emphasis of consideration on recent college work during transfers I am also planning to join many clubs at my current college. My high school gpa is 3.7 + 4 APs and 6 honors + 2 clubs.
SAT scores are not considered for transfer students in Cornell.
Do you think I have a good chance? If I'm also planning to go to grad school how will I manage to pay around 45k each year for Cornell and grad school? Are loans a financial burden after you graduate? Can grants and scholarships really cover most of that amount?
1) 3.7 isn't a very good GPA for a high school applicant to Cornell. 3.8 college GPA is pretty good though, altho if you're talking Cornell, it's no sure thing.
2) Joining a bunch of clubs in a year will do squat for you. Cornell isn't going to be impressed. Anyone can sign their name to a sign up sheet. You have to do something impressive in your year of college. If it's in one club or more, it doesn't matter. It just has to be an impressive accomplishment. Doesn't even have to be in a club setting.
3) School loans suck, but you don't pay until you graduate. Consolidating does make it a more manageable monthly amount. Hopefully you pick a decent paying career. I really can't understand people who choose private schools just to do a low paying career.
I was wondering what the chance of getting into an elite graduate college was based on my academic record. I am currently attending St John Fisher College and have a GPA of 3.7, but I am expecting to get that up to a 3.8 or so. Hypothetically, if I were to graduate with a 3.8, what would be the chance of getting accepted into an upper-tier business graduate college? The following list shows some of the top schools:
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/mba/search
I know that the college's reputation is important in the chances. Although St John Fisher is a good college, it is incomparable to some other big-time colleges (NYU, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, etc.) What would my chances be of getting into one of the top graduate schools with graduating with a 3.8 gpa from St John Fisher College? I know there are many other considerations taken into effect but what factor would the gpa and college reputation be taken into account?
It is possible — but it is not going to be easy.
Your GPA will not be a problem at any B-School. The quality of your undergraduate school will be a problem. The quality of the undergraduate school is very important in getting into the top B-Schools.
I just looked through the Facebook from my MBA class at Duke. Out of about 350 students, there were only about ten who went to a school that was roughly the quality of St John Fisher or lower. That isn't particularly good odds for you. What I noticed about those ten students is that nearly everything other than their undergraduate school was stellar.
For you to get into a top 15 MBA program, you will need a high GPA (which you have), a very high GMAT score (probably above 700), four or five years of interesting work experience, good recommendations, a good interview and nearly perfect essays.
As I mentioned, I saw very few students in my MBA class from schools like yours. I got my PhD at Berkeley and taught at Wharton and MIT. I saw very few students at those schools with undergraduate degrees from schools comparable to yours.
I now teach at Maryland — which is ranked between 25-40 (depending on the rankings). I see very few people at Maryland from schools like yours, either.
There is no wiggle room for you — everything else has to be perfect.
If you are an underrepresented minority, then your chances will go way up at the private universities.
a danceI'm currently enrolling School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a undergraduate pursuing Bachelor of Interior Architecture.
I was wandering if it's better to stay in SAIC then goto graduate school to berkeley,cornell, or yale ..or is it better to transfer to Berkeley in fall 2009 then goto yale or cornell as graduate
another question is that after getting into school of architecture, Berkeley..is it possible to change school to bio?if not is it possible to take all the premed track classes in community college full time and graduate within one or two year then transfer to berkeley…if so what are the percentage of getting accepted…( im talking with good GPA)
I really have passion toward medical( surgeon) but my worry is that if I get out of SAIC and attend community college to do
the requirement and don't do so great …then it will be a waste of time and effort…
so do you think it's worth the risk…
please help,I'd really appreciate your answer
thanks in advance
Honestly, don't go to Berkeley. The liberalness of the school has painted it in such a bad odor that you will get passed over by execs when picking jobs. Go with Yale, but try harvard. Question though. If you are thinking of med, why are you taking Architecture. Makes absolutely no sense. If the CC doesn't offer premed, take another CC, or drop out and go straight to Yale.
Uc berkeley has been my dream school for Law ever since Freshman year. My first plan was to transfer for grad school, after graduating with majors in Pre-law and business. I’ve been looking at schools like Cornell college and the university, I’ve talked to the Cornell college’s dean of admissions at a college fair and he made it seem it was almost a sure fire shot of getting in. But, a friend of mine was offered a full ride to the university, and said it was an amazing campus although it is, an ivy league school so, its gonna be harder to get into, but i feel that if i get into the university switching to UC berkeley will become easier.
Here’s my info:
Currently I’m a Junior, so for an average gpa throughout high school i have probablly somewhere between a 3.8 or 3.9 not weighed. Jr. year im taking
Honors English 11 (cant take ap english till senior year)
Pre-calc (farthest i can be jr year)
Ap Bio
Ap History
Bible 11
Choir
Ind. Study on Civil Liberties and Bill of rights
Spanish 2 (will take a 3rd year)
In both AP classes i plan on getting atleast a 4 on the test,
ive done a couple of things for leadership, like HOBY (a youth leadership conference for sophomores i was chosen out of my class to attend the seminar for a weekend) Student government, Class council, Executive council, Class president, currently the secretary for my student government class, Im the lead attorney in my school’s mock trial team, even though im only a junior. I participate in Soccer, basketball, track, (Which all were varsity level) and ski-club for fun.
Since Freshman and Sophomore year ive taken the most challenging classes possible, ive been a year ahead of the majority of my class, taking honors english classes since sophomore year, a year ahead in math, and a year in science.
Next year i’m taking:
Ap Government
Chemistry
Ap Calculus
Bible 12
AP english
i cant think of all of them but i think 1 or 2 more ap classes
umm my Act i dont remember the score all i remember i was in the 90 to 94 percentile, and my SAT i took a practice one in my SAT class and got a 1720, which is a terrible score considering i made a mistake in the math section, my writing was a 670 which i know will improve by the end of the class, my essay got a 5.5 out of 6, math i think was in the 500’s only because i left a question blank then forgot to actually skip it so i was a question behind for a good number of questions…. But i thought math was hands down the easiest section so it should be somewhere in the 700’s and critical reading was in the low 600’s but im thinking this will be atleast 675 by the end of the class. wow that was a lot of writing for a question thanks for taking the time to read that all…. lol and i’d love to know exactly what you think i should do and what my chances are…
Also i'm in the National Honors Society and have 100 hours of community service this year, around 30 for freshman and sophomore year, plan on volunteering in a hospital this summer where my mom works, doing an internship at a law firm, and a part time job, just for summer…..
There is no accurate way to predict your chance of acceptance; altho your profile looks decent. Work on putting together an impeccable application and personal statement and you should be fine.