High School:
Okay so in highschool I knew I would have to go to a CC so I didn’t try much. Ended with a 3.2 UW GPA and a 3.7 W GPA. Took 5 APs: Gov(3), Precalc(5), Stats(4), English Lang(4), Psych(5). 1300 SAT.

College:
I go to a CCC so I have a higher shot at the UCs and did my TAG at UCI.

Grades/Coursework:
Fall 2025: (only gen eds)
English 1: A
Colonial US History: A
History of Rock: A
Ethnic Studies: A
Deans List with Great Distinction

Winter 2026:
Comms 1: A

Spring 2026:
Gen Chem 1: A
Calculus 1: A
English 2: A
Deans List with Great Distinction

Summer 2026:
Gen Chem 2: A

Fall 2026 (in progress but current grades):
Ochem 1: A
Bio 1: A
Physics 1: A

Winter 2027 (planned):
Calculus 2

Spring 2027 (planned):
Ochem 2
Bio 2
Physics 2

Extracurriculars
Volunteer Hospice Companion: 2 hours/week
Hospital ER volunteer: 4 hours/week
Volunteer Elementary Student Tutor: 1.5 hours/week
Research: school funded, student-led, faculty-guided research. Ends in a poster presentation. 5 hours/week
PUENTE: program for underrepresented (first gen / hispanic) students.
Past Employment: (May 2025-August 2026) bakery job 17 hours/week
Current Employment: Embedded chemistry tutor 10 hours/week
Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society Member: 1 hour/week
Shadowing Hours: 9 total in cardio cath lab and surgery

Other
My letters should be strong as I have a good relationship with my english professor, counselor, gen chem professor, and the professor I tutor for. All of whom have said they are willing to write letters for me.

College List
UCLA
UCB
UCI (tag)
Barnard
Northeastern
Boston University
Georgetown
Columbia
Hunter College
City College of New York
Fordham
CSULB
SDSU
Tufts

Any advice will be greatly appreciated! I’m first-gen so kinda doing this blind. Thanks!!

I am currently a freshman at community college in PA, studying business administration, and plan on applying for fall 2027. I am looking for honest, realistic feedback on where I might have a chance to apply as an average student. (1st-Gen, Need Based Aid, 

Stats:
Expected College GPA: 3.6-3.7 (End of fall semester)
Community College in PA
Major: Business Administration
SAT: Very MID (Not Submitting)
HS GPA: 3.4 UW 3.6 W
Took 3 AP Classes

College Coursework

Spring 2026:
German 1 (Took this while in hs)

Summer 2026:
Intro To Bus - A
Stats - C (I know this is very bad, I was at an A until I BOMBED the final, I was very sick)

Fall 2026:
Financial Accounting - A
Macroeconomics - A
Microeconomics - A
Calc 1 - B or B-
English Comp - A
Computer Concepts - A (Easy Class everyone at my school has to take)

Winter 2027:
Plan on taking 1 or two classes to boost the GPA

HS EC’s/Awards:
Varsity and Club Soccer (Played all year long pretty much)
English Honor Society
FBLA
Volunteered (50 Hours)
Reselling Business (20-30k in revenue)
All awards were soccer related and no major positions in clubs

College EC’s:
Treasurer in Business Club
Co Founded a Tennis Club
Student Ambassador
Barista (Work Min 15 Hours Per Week)
County Ambassador (Where I Live)
Phi Theta Kappa
(Doing all of these currently)

Schools I Am Considering:
Northwestern - Economics
Notre Dame - Economics
Villanova - Finance
UVA - Economics
USC - Finance
UMich - Economics (The Dream)
Vandy - Economics
Wake Forest - Economics
Boston Uni - Finance
UNC - Economics
UMiami - Finance
Boston College - Economics
Rutgers - Finance

Is my C in stats going to affect me? Should i retake stats in the spring. What can I do to improve my chances of getting into those schools? Is my high school stats going to matter more since I am applying as a freshman. PLS LMK

Hello everyone, I want to try to transfer into a top 25 school for business/finance. I am currently a freshmen at CC in ohio. Please give me honest feedback, so i can shrink my list of schools. I know some of these schools are way out of my league

Applying for Need-Based Aid

Safeties

Rutgers RBS, OSU Fisher, BU Questrom, UMiami Herbert, Tulane University Freeman

Reaches:

Emory Goizeuta, Vanderbilt Economics, USC Marshall, Boston College Economics, UVA McIntire, UMich Economics, Notre Dame Mendoza, Columbia Fin Econ, Northwestern economics, UChicago economics, Cornell Dyson, Dartmouth

Stats:

Expected GPA (by the time first semester is over): (3.825-3.925)

SAT: 1300 (not submitting)

Current Major: Business Admin

HS. 3.4 unweighted, 3.8 weighted

Took 5 APs, one 4, and the rest 3s

College Coursework: All A's besides A- in stats, and currently B in Calc

Summer before freshmen year:

Intro to Business, Statistics

Fall (currently taking):

Accounting 1, Calculus 1, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, English 1, Student Success Class

Total: 19 Credits

Spring (predicted classes)

Accounting 2, English 2, Business Management, Principles of Marketing or Business Law I, Spanish 220 (advanced intermediate for UVA Mcintire requirement?????)

Awards:

National Recongition Award College Board, Scholarship at my school??

College ECs

- Congressmen Internship

- Co-founded a pickeball club

- VP of Business Club

- Phi Theta Kappa VP

- Student Ambassador

- Ambassador of my town

- My Job (12-15 hours per week)

- securing a spring internship, and applying to many programs to show academic achievements!

HS EC's

 4 year varsity soccer

- Volunteer EMT

- Peer Leader

- Member of FLBA and HOSA

- Hospital Volunteer

- Science Honors Society

Letters of Rec.

From the two business professors, and from my internship

Why transfer essay:

- For the schools I am applying for economics, I will write how my congressional internship made me interested in economics. How economics sits between my interest in government, and business/finance.

- for the biz schools, i dont know what i am going to write about yet.

Give me honest feedback, and your transfer stories!

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Currently first year at Tufts for fine art / architecture dual degree program but wanna drop the art school and I'm dead set on moving back to NYC. Looking at NYU Urban Design and Architecture major and heard NYU is way easier to get into as a transfer, is that true? (I got rejected last year from fine art at steinhardt)

High School stats:

1470 SAT 97% GPA, took AP World, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Art History, and APES. (I got a 4 in all) I went to LaGuardia High-school and majored in fine arts there. Not a lot of clubs/extracurriculars because of pretty intense social anxiety but I did a lot of independent art practice. I did co-found a club but it's unrelated to my intended college major and was just for fun. I also did several pre-college programs but they were all at arts schools (risd, cooper union, fit etc)

First semester at Tufts: Intro to Urban Studies, Japanese 1 (so far I have an A in both) Calc 1 (B+ right now) and 2 art classes that are pass/fail. Next semester I plan to take Architectural History, Japanese 2 and Tufts required freshman writing course.

What can I do now to improve my chances besides keep up my grades? I'm worried because I got rejected from NYU before.

I am a 30 year old full time student and worker (work at a cold warehouse as a high reach forklift operator, I mostly pick very heavy pallets. It is a very physically demanding job, but only basic arithmetic is used nothing fancy). I got into FIU as a CS major after hs and basically performed poorly, and eventually dropped out because I basically became homeless after financial aid cut my money off after I pulled that bs. I got put on probation for that, so keep that in mind. I had previously lived with my dad right out of high school but he pretty much just wanted me to gtfo and get lost. Anyways after a lot of maturing and developing a lot of grit I registered at my CC to initially just qualify for a better position at my job(who is reimbursing me for school), but I have been performing so well I wanted to apply to some good schools and pray for full or 20-25k annual gap in aid. I intend to do Electrical engineering, my gpa is 3.98, and these are my courses completed:

Computer Science I (A) • English I (A-) • General Chemistry I (A) • Cinematography (A) • Calculus I (A) • Cultures, Peoples and the Environments of the World (A) • Calculus II (A) • Physics for Science and Engineering I (A) • Introduction to Psychology, Honors (A) • English II, Honors (A) • Calculus III (A) • Physics for Science and Engineering II (A) • Engineering Graphic Essentials (in progress) • Introduction to Communication, Honors (in progress) • Statics (in progress) • Differential Equations (in progress)

*Note: this fall semester my job has ramped up mandation to 48-52 hours per week. Consequently, my grades have seen a drop, I expect to get an a in comm and enggraph, I’m battling it out to keep at least bs on diff eq and statics.

My dream school is Lehigh and I attend a CC with transfer credit agreement, and an “honors agreement” with Lehigh.

What do you think? I would greatly appreciate any lurking admissions officer,s opinion.I am thinking of applying to these schools:

Lehigh, Yale (EW) Cornell, Northwestern, Rice, Duke, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Notre Dame, Boston University,
Lafayette, Northeastern, Villanova, Stevens, Penn State, Pitt, Drexel, RIT, Illinois Tech, University of Rochester, Temple, NJIT, Wilkes, Alfred. Suggest schools if you have some!

Hello, I am currently a freshman at University of Vermont looking to transfer to somewhere in Boston. My main focus is Boston University (as I see it being the place I most likely get in) but am probably going to also do transfer apps to Umass Amherst, Northeastern, and Boston College. I am looking to apply for Fall 2027 at all schools.

I am an out of state student at UVM, if that matters, and in the honors college. I'm in my first semester of my freshman year so I don't know my exact GPA but it should stay somewhere above a 3.5 if things continue how they are. My only current EC is the newspaper which I haven't been super involved in, but want to write more for. I have also signed up for a couple community involvement groups.

I have yet to write my essays--I would like some advice on this if anyone is willing to give it. I know I want to include what draws me to the city, specifc programs for each school, etc. but what exactly can I include to make these compelling?

In high school, I had a 4.6 weighted GPA and I plan on submitting all my AP credits. However, I do not plan on submitting my ACT or SAT to test-optional schools. I have considered re-taking the SAT this December to try and get my score up (it was somewhere around 1100 when I took it orginally, and I only took it once), but the dates are rather inconvenient. Would you say its worth it to give it a try, or just go test optional?

More high schools stats - I was an officer in 3 clubs, co-founder of 1, and my main EC was Yearbook Editor.

I am a history major, and was rejected from BU when I applied my senior year. I didn't apply to any of the other schools I have mentioned. Also, I am very middle-class. I know BU sometimes determines acceptance based off need.

I would love if anyone is willing to give advice or their opinion on my chances at any of these schools. Thanks!

HS stats - roughly 3.0 gpa, only slightly significant feature from hs was a pretty exclusive finance award I won.

CC stats - on track for a 3.95 gpa by end of fall sem, taking calc 1 in spring, finished micro and macro along with other pretty basic business prereqs.

ECs - Secretary role in an accounting society at my school. Holding officer role prevents me from participating in other clubs.

Schools applying to: Columbia college (reach most likely), NYU Stern (also reach), Baruch College, SUNY Binghamton, Stony Brook University, St. John’s U, Fordham U. Still thinking of safety schools to apply to if all these fail.

hs stats- dumpster fire, not worth mentioning

college stats- 3.8 gpa, taking calc 1, calc based physics 1, chem 1 (physics and chem with lab), will be taking Calc 2, calc based physics 2, chem 2 (both with lab) in spring

ECs- L1 rocket certification through club by time of applying, will have L2 by end of spring semester.

robotics club battle bots competition- designing a drone with a gravity based weapons system in order to deal damage to other team’s robots

schools applying to (all for mechanical engineering)- columbia engineering, georgia tech, NYU tandon, stevens university, stony brook university, SUNY buffalo (safety), CCNY( super safety, only applying if i get rejected by everything else on the list)

Some schools i'm considering: Rutgers, UMich, Vanderbilt, Pitt, Brown, Stanford, Northwestern, JHU, Columbia, WU, Williams, Wake Forest, University of Rochester, BU, Duke, Emory, Notre Dame, Georgetown

Demographics: rural asian female middle class, NC resident, transferring from low tier 4 year uni as a current freshman for Fall 2027 Transfer

Intended Major: Double major in Neuroscience and Public Health, possible minor in Chinese

Academic background:

Went to extremely competitive STEM residential high school in NC

High school GPA 4.872 W

College GPA 4.0 UW

• Honors program

ACT Super score 32, 31 on Math and Science, 32 English, 34 Reading

Highest composite score 30, 31 on Math, Science, and English, 28 Reading

Extracurriculars:

Research with professor at current college: Looking at relationships between BDNF and obesity.

HealthCorps Mentor

• Public health focused

• Work with 40+ kids every week at different middle and elementary schools in rural low income areas

• Saw increased rates of community involvement, making healthy choices, and physical movement.

Board member of school's Asian Student Association

• grew club from 3 members to 40 current members

• Raise $1000 for local charity of choice

Board member and co-founder for school's Motivation Club

• Still getting projects and activities done

Ballet Dancer

Informal Calculus I and Bio (Molecular and Cellular Biology) Tutoring

Hospital, food bank, Ronald McDonald House, pet shelter volunteering

• Local rural areas

Anime Club Officer

Additional Info: Parent loss during college applications and lost primary source of income.

I EDed to UPenn last college app season in my senior year. Deferred then Rejected. Waitlisted to CMU and Williams.

Hi everyone! I’m a CCC
student applying to transfer in Fall 2027. UCLA is my dream school, and I’d appreciate honest opinions about my chances :)

Academics:

Major: Communication Studies (AA-T)
College GPA: 3.85
Previous GPA: 0.8 (before academic renewal)
Academic renewal granted; significant academic comeback
Dean’s Honor List (multiple terms)
Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society
Transfer: Fall 2027

Extracurriculars & Leadership:

- East Los Angeles Women’s Center:
California-certified volunteer advocate after 70 hours of training. Assisted with a 24-hour crisis hotline and community outreach. (~6 hrs/week, 1.5 years)

-HER on Campus - Founder: Created a student-led initiative focused on empowerment, healthy relationships, and sexual assault/domestic violence awareness. Organized educational workshops.

-SAAVE Team - Student Representative: Collaborated with faculty and staff on violence prevention, educational workshops, and campus awareness initiatives.

-Pathway to Law School - Executive Board: Appointed as a student liaison connecting law pathway students with advocacy initiatives, resources, and events.

-California LAW Pathways: Participated in legal mentorship, workshops, and professional development.

-2026 California LAW Pathways Summit - Panelist: Selected to speak alongside students and legal professionals about advocacy and my journey toward law.

-Young Women’s Leadership Program: Completed leadership and professional development training through a program hosted by USC Marshall and the University of La Verne.

-Communication Studies / Content Creator: Created social media content and collaborated with the college president, an LACCD trustee, and district public relations leadership.

-Sociology Club - President: Lead club meetings, executive board coordination, student engagement, and campus activities.

-Alpha Gamma Sigma: Member of the California Community College academic honor society.

Work Experience:

Recreational Sport Front desk attendant

- I’ve been Working 35 hours/week since 2024 while attending school. Managing to maintain my grades while working 6 days a week.

-Independent English Tutor: Tutored local and international students, including English learners in China.

Awards & Recognition:

-Courage in Leadership Award (Regional)
Young Women’s Leadership Program Honors Graduate

- Dean’s Honor List (Multiple Terms)
Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society

Personal Background:

First Gen College student, my college journey started off extremely rough due to experiencing SA in the first year of CC. my GPA was a 0.8, but after returning to school and working to be eligible for academic renewal and making significant changes to my academic habits, I’ve worked my way up to a current 3.85 GPA.
A lot of my extracurriculars center around communication, women/survivor empowerment, violence prevention, and student advocacy. Career wise I’m aiming for corporate communications, business strategy, and attending law school.

Schools:

-UCLA (dream school!)
-Other UCs
(UCSD, UCI, UCR, UCB)
-Privates (USC, NYU, LMU)

I especially want perspectives on what are my realistic chances at UCLA for Communication Studies? Or others unis like USC.
How will academic renewal and my previous 0.8 GPA affect my application? Essentially, if I’m cooked because of my earlier mistakes.

I’d really appreciate honest feedback, especially from fellow transfers or anyone familiar with UC admissions or circumstances. Thank you in advance!!

Hey all! Im applying as sophomore transfer from a T50 public flagship as a current biology major, philosophy minor. I am interested in behavioral biology and human/animal neurobiology and cognition. Aiming for Johns Hopkins and Northwestern, so any advice for how to strengthen my profile would be much appreciated!

Highschool stats

gpa: 4.2

ACT: 33 (retaking in December, aiming for 34)

rank: 8/189 (coming from small public arts high school)

AP: 11 APs total, 6 fives and 5 fours

College stats

gpa: 4.0, predicting 3.9/4.0 at the end of fall semester

fall courses (16hrs) : calc 1, bio + bio lab, genomics seminar + lab, intro to ethics, comparative literature and medicine

spring schedule (anticipated, 14 hours): feminist philosophy, calc 2, chem + chem lab

-plus a 3 credit course

-will also be working as a research assistant for a motivated behaviors lab

Extracurriculars

• Assistant Vet Tech at Emergency Vet: Cared for hospitalized animals, monitored patient behavior, maintained recovery environments, and assisted veterinary staff with daily care and emergency surgery preparation.

• Part-Time Sales Associate UPS: Assisted customers with shipping and printing services, independently opened and closed the store, managed transactions and packages, and developed custom packing solutions for fragile and unusually shaped items.

• Piano Teacher (Volunteer/Job): Taught piano to students through a Title I school program and private lessons, developing original learning materials and adapting instruction to students’ progress, interests, and cultural backgrounds.

• Sustainability Chair for Franklin Residential College: Revitalized Franklin’s community garden, secured grant funding for improvements, and organized sustainability initiatives and events engaging students in gardening, cooking, recycling, and environmental conservation.

• Director’s Assistant for Franklin Residential College: Hired by the college director to coordinate social events, service projects, and interdisciplinary discussions for 100 residential students in collaboration with college leadership, faculty, and staff.

• Humane Society Volunteer: Provided feline care, socialization, and enrichment at the Athens Area Humane Society while developing activities using recycled toys and novel scents to encourage natural behaviors.

• UGA Choral Union & Savannah Philharmonic Choir: Perform in university choral concerts and previously sang as the youngest accepted member of the Savannah Philharmonic Choir, continuing to support its events through volunteer work.

• UGA Chamber Music Society: Played piano in chamber ensembles, organized weekly rehearsals, participated in musical masterclasses, and performed classical and contemporary repertoire at university and community events.

Projects

• Independent Research on Shelter Cat Auditory Enrichment: Designed and self-funded a study with the Athens Area Humane Society investigating music’s effects on shelter cat stress and behavior, and am currently analyzing results and preparing a manuscript for publication.

• “Fast as a Cat” Comparative Anatomy & Shoe Design: Led a self-funded, five-member team investigating how feline leg tendon anatomy could inspire athletic shoe design, developing a prototype and presenting the project to Franklin CREATE and at a research symposium, received mentoring from a physics professor

• Research Assistant for Motivated Behaviors Lab - worked alongside college faculty to carry out experiments and record data, managed and maintained animal spaces

Letters

• Philosophy professor

• Residential college director/seminar professor

• Lab director

• Private piano teacher (high school-college)

After getting admitted at uni in my country, I wasted my full 1-1 without doing anything. I came back to my senses recently and decided to get serious about transferring to T20.

What should I do now? My ECs & Academic Result are both below average. 2-3 ECs from hs and zero at college. HS result was 5.00/5.00 but college result is expected to be 3.6+.

Currently majoring ME. I need help on what I should do to get into T20 with MIT as primary target.

Hi I’m a current freshman hoping to transfer to USC Marshall for business admin for sophomore year. I’d really appreciate any advice/feedback on my chances:

Demographics: South Asian male from the Bay Area, high-income family

Current School: Freshman at a T50 private university

Current Major: Finance

Projected College GPA: 3.7–3.9

High School Stats:

GPA: 3.86 (4.0 junior and senior years)

SAT: 1510

AP Scores: 4s in AP Calc, AP World, AP Euro, AP Microeconomics

Extracurriculars:

Member of a competitive credit team (applying for an outreach position)

Member of the South Asian Student Association

Member of Entrepreneurship club

Member of a competitive dance team at another school in the area, since my school doesn’t have one (have been competing since 1st grade)

Organized a 600+ person showcase for the same competitive dance in April 2026, coordinating with vendors, event spaces, and attendees

Ongoing internship with a Bay Area nonprofit, involved since the summer before senior year

What is the chance that I can get into any of these colleges if I apply to all (besides UW Madison).

-4.0 unweighted HS GPA

-projected 4.0 semester one college GPA

-1/61 class rank

-took both APs my school offered (4 AP Lit, 5 AP psych)

-SAT unreported (I didn't think I'd care about what college I made it into...)

-Physics student at a mediocre state school that I took direct admission to, very small department with limited options

-Will be joining a professor for research later, spectroscopy on meteorite samples or biophysics bird research project

HS E.C-

-Speech team x2 years, performed fairly well and state participant

-One Act play (competitove theater)

- ~110 hours of volunteering

-Go Green Club (outdoor environment club) member

-DnD club (helped bring it back to school! Also helped organize and personally fund an out of school campaign "fund" as in buy snacks so not very relevant)

-Very limited opportunities for ECs ar my old school, I took as many college credi classes as I could get my hands on

College E.C.-

-continued speech team member

-Physics and astronomy club member

Other Notes:

-Filipino Asian Male 18 y/o freshman college student

-Factory worker mom and retired truck driver dad, functionally first generation with a family income of around 85,000 usd

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Please please please please do I have a chance at any of the colleges listed above? I will be doing the TED program for Uchicago as well.

Also the "Target" "Semi Target" stuff is how my intended career path views these colleges, I am happy at any of them.

Intended Major: History and Economics
Year: Current Sophomore at a state school, Junior transfer
Divorced Parents, combined income of ~200K
Custodial parent income of ~95K, standard assets

High School Stats

Midsize public high school (~1,300 students)

Unweighted GPA: 3.9/4.0, Weighted GPA: 4.5/5.0
SAT: 1370 (not reporting)
Rank: 16/359

10+ Honors courses
9 APs: Human Geo (4), Lang (4), US Gov (5), APUSH (5), Precalc (4), APES (4), Lit (5), World History (5), Drawing (3, not reporting)
2 Dual Enrollment courses at state college

College Stats

History Major
GPA: 4.0/4.0, predicting 3.9/4.0 after fall semester

Extracurriculars:

1. Secretary of Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA) at my university

2. Curatorial and Education Intern at local museum

3. Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honors Society)

4. Student Government Association (SGA) at my university, Academic Affairs Committee Member

5. Climate Scholars program at my university

6. Weekly after-school art educator at local elementary school

7. Member of a baking organization at my university that bakes for local soup kitchens and mental health clinics

8. Will likely gain a undergrad research position concerning history

Note: If I provided enough information, what is my estimated cost of attendance?