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Is it feasible to transfer to top schools like UChicago and UCBerkeley?
If so, how can I increase my chances?
Serious answers only, please. I'll be applying next year with about 60 credits, 3.9 GPA, multiple leadership positions in extracurriculars, over 200 volunteer hours, but a mediocre high school GPA (from when I was a less serious student.)
I'm retaking the SAT and ACT, doing 3 SAT Subject tests, and will graduate from an associate's degree program with honors.
Let me know of any other advice to take to heart, too. Im most concerned about my mediocre high school transcript. I've learned a lot about myself and how to be a better student to achieve my dreams from community college and through much introspection. All I now have to do is convince schools I've dreamed of studying at for years. I will apply to a few safety schools, but I also want to do what I can to appeal to at least one or two notable schools. Not Harvard or MIT (until graduate school), but the two universities I named, Columbia, Northwestern, and the best state school where I live.
I'm interested in studying economics and math.
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A lot has changed since my college days. It was, it appears, much easier back then to transfer from the Community College into the University system. It may still be as you will be entering as a Junior not a Freshman. Have you called the admissions office at the schools you wish to attend and spoken with them advising them that you are graduating from a community college and wish to transfer into there school. If you have not I suggest you do I believe it may be less intensive than you have written about.
Should you have to go through the same application process as a Freshman then what I suggest is in your essay you write about how you have changed . I particularly like this portion of your writing to us; "I'm most concerned about my mediocre high school transcript. I've learned a lot about myself and how to be a better student to achieve my dreams from community college and through much introspection." I would suggest you build your essay around those sentences.
Before you do all that I suggest you make the phone calls to the admissions office ad explain you are a transfer student not a freshman enrollee. I'm somewhat positive the entrance requirements are different. Your high school grades may become irrelevant.
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