Hey guys, I’m currently a student at a top 10 community college in the country
Myc urrent GPA: a 3.85 GPA as of now.
Major: Business/Finance
On pace for straight A’s this semester and will end with around a.3.9 with 32 completed units.
I suffered an extremely poor high school GPA (2.6) but have gotten my act together this year.
I’m in the Honors program here at the school, and the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.
I have glowing recommendations from two professors, one of which saying “was one of the best students I’ve ever taught”
My EC’s aren’t anything good, sports in HS, a lot of work experience and volunteer work tutoring kids in need is about it.
I’m an extremely motivated student now and want to do everything in my power to correct my high school efforts. I was a young over spoiled slackoff. What are my chances at schools like USC,NYU, Emory, UVA, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern? Are they going to hold my high school grades against me?
USC has a higher transfer admit rate than freshman admit rate. So your chances as a transfer are better than as a freshman AFAIK.
Funny because I’m a bus-finance transfer applicant with similar high school issues, and I’m also applying to NYU lol. Stern told me their transfer acceptance rate is <10% anyways so it’s a crapshoot for everyone.
HS grades–it depends on the school but the usual metric is the longer you’ve been out of HS the less they count. Some schools explicitly will not take anyone who messed up their HS years.
Be sure to find out if you can pay for your target schools. NYU is notoriously bad about FA and transfer students often have different FA packages than first-year admits.
You may also want to look at Baruch (if you like NYU) as it’s a great school at bargain prices with connections in NYC.
i’m sorry… i didn’t mean to come off with any attitude @CornellAEMplease… @Dustyfeathers cost is no matter to me, I just want to go to the best school possible
Some schools may also provide additional transfer scholarships for Phi Theta Kappa students; I believe GWU provides $7500/year. BU provides two Phi Theta Kappa scholarships.
That’s good to know, and not to be too negative, but GWU ( like NYU) isn’t exactly known for great FA. Just the opposite. They may make an exception for transfers, but the modus operandi seems to be make money and raise rankings–oh and you can get a pretty good education, for sure. Probably it’s best to check their offer against that of other institutions.
I don’t think any school has as negative of a reputation as NYU though. I think the avg net price for NYU is around $3k higher than for Georgetown too.
Also, Georgetown’s McDonough school will have a similarly low acceptance rate for transfers - very desirable.
I agree with philbegas – when I taught at a community college, we had several low-income transfer students who had nearly all of their tuition paid for in grants by GW who did not have even half of their tuition covered by NYU. BU is similar – you won’t get 100% of your need met, but you can usually get most of tuition covered if your EFC is zero.
Actually, I was looking into Boston U for transfer but I wrote them off. I was going to apply to the Questrom school of business, but they require 5 semesters of attendance. Regardless of how many units you transfer in with. They also require you to take placement tests. Both of these combined with their reputation of poor aid made me decide they weren’t worth it. .
I don’t know anything about Cornell’s B school for undergrad, but in general Cornell has good relations with community colleges and transfers. It might be worth checking out their web page. Cornell has a lot of articulation agreements with NYS community colleges.
@Dustyfeathers@philbegas Financial aid is not important to me I won’t even be applying for it. Money aside, how am I looking at getting into these schools?
“chancing” somebody for transfer can be a lot more complicated than freshman because most schools don’t indicate the middle 25-75% of transfer students. That being said, you should do the following:
Go to google, and type in “college name here” common data set. Go to their website, download the most recent one, and look at section D. That will give you the transfer acceptance rate for the most recent period. Some will be higher than freshman, some lower.