The big news in the United States these two days is that Elon Musk and Twitter's board of directors have reached an agreement on a $44 billion acquisition plan. The acquisition, announced by Musk less than a month ago, seemed unlikely only a week ago, but in just a few days it peaked and the two sides finally reached an agreement.
Buying Twitter in a big way, Musk's educational experience has naturally aroused everyone's curiosity.
Growing up in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk applied for a Canadian passport due to the ease of entering the U.S. from Canada, which he studied at the University of Pretoria for five months while waiting for the passport. In 1990, at the age of 17, Musk moved to Canada to attend Queen's University, Queen's University.
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The world's richest man enrolled in Penn,
It turned out that it was also by "transferring schools"!
In 1992, after two years, Musk received a scholarship and transferred to UPenn, university of Pennsylvania.
Musk hoped that the Ivy League school could help him open more doors of opportunity, so he majored in double degrees - economics degrees and physics degrees from Wharton. He was well at the University of Pennsylvania and got along well with his physics classmates.
Elon Musk was exposed by a professor for his physics assignment at Pennsylvania
Musk's long-term interest in solar energy and his exploration of the use of new energy began at the University of Pennsylvania. In December 1994, he was writing a business plan for a homework course entitled "The Importance of Solar Energy." The paper predicts that solar technology will flourish based on improvements in materials and the construction of large-scale solar power plants.
Musk, whose other paper deals with his favorite supercapacitors, is excited about new ways of storing energy, arguing that these technologies could be applied to cars, airplanes and rockets in the future, citing the latest research from a Silicon Valley lab.
Musk has found that Silicon Valley is the promised land he has been looking for, full of opportunities to realize his ambitions. He returned in the summer for two consecutive years, settling in California after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a double degree in physics and economics (Wharton). He originally planned to pursue a Ph.D. in materials science and physics at Stanford University, hoping to advance work on supercapacitors. But then Musk dropped out after two days at Stanford University because he couldn't resist the temptation of the internet, and he persuaded his brother to move to California and co-founded The Web software company Zip2.
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Want to follow the richest man to learn "transfer",
You have to understand these things...
At least 700,000 U.S. college students apply each year for college transfers, most of whom transfer for better educational opportunities and achieve "advancements" in academic and career planning. It is true that in many American universities, the transfer admission rate is higher than the admission rate of new students, which is a "shortcut" to enter a prestigious university.
The standardized scores of transfer students this year and last year have not changed much overall: the more common ones are still standard for the SAT1500+ and TOEFL 110+. It is worth noting that some of the super high score applicants that everyone remembers have always existed and are quite numerous. For example, every year, I can meet many SAT1550+ and TOEFL 115+ applicants.
The mainstream GPA for transfer students this year and last year has not changed much: 4.0 is still the most common GPA, but the proportion has increased significantly. GPA above 3.9 is also increasing. We are seeing fewer and fewer transfer applicants below 3.8.
The propensity of transfer students to majors has also changed little: business, economics, STEM are still the most common majors. The number of applicants for selective psychology rose significantly. This shows that if you are a transfer student in these majors, you will naturally face more fierce competition.
The activities attended by transfer students have also not changed much. Societies, scientific research and competitions are still the mainstream. The most noteworthy point is not the changing trend of some activities, but the increasing "homogenization" of most of the transfer student activities. With the increasing number of transfer applicants, how to stand out is a question that all transfer students must consider.
The schools that transfer students most want to go to have not changed overall. Columbia, Cornell, Penn, and Northwest have always been the most popular "four Kongs". UCLA, Michigan, Brown and Duke have also been popular choices.
In addition, more transfer students want to understand the reasons for previous application failures and how their high school performance will affect their future transfer applications. As U.S. applications become more and more inward-looking, many people get unsatisfactory results, and it is even more difficult for applicants to see where they are in the pool.
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What is mercer's transfer record this year?
A few years ago, only students who failed to apply for the quarter would generally consider transferring. But now, many students who get a Top 30, or even a Top 20, will also apply for a transfer!
Coupled with the application of Mimoto's freshmen to "rise in the water", many high-scoring students are not satisfied with the admission results and are diverted to the "transfer pool"... As a result, the competition for Mimoto's transfer has become more and more intense! This also reminds us that if we want to successfully transfer, we must plan our activities and professional disciplines in advance, and at the same time, understand the difficulty of transfer and the requirements for course selection at the target university in advance!
What most transfer students need most is paperwork help, as this is a very important part of the U.S. transfer application. In addition, more and more students are looking to receive advice on event planning and professional disciplines. As the information gap became smaller, transfer students began to realize that if they wanted to stand out from the fierce competition, excellent academic performance alone was not enough.
In fact, countless international students have been accompanied by Mercer Education to enter their favorite universities through transfers.
Therefore, if you have the idea of transferring, quickly scan the code to add Mercer sauce and open a 1V1 free consultation!
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