<p>what are my chances </p>
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<p>Salutation to all,,</p>
<p>I am going absolutely nuts for a lack of better terms...I am not sure were i fit in- I want to apply to good schools but at the same time i dont want to waist money applying to schools that are outside of my range. (btw I have read several books and surf the net about college admissions and they still offer no hope, just confusing stats). I want help from real people.</p>
<p>I am a sophomore at a community college I have a cummulative 3.45 this is my last semester of school and i will have a 3.5 at the end of this semester quarter...I am a two term senator of SGA...member a PTK Honors Society...and also I have founded a club and consequently is the president. I am in the departmental Honors Program. I work a full time job as a Loss Prevention Officer...and also have worked as a court interpretor. I am a political science major...I speak several languages...I have over 70 transfer credits.
I want a school with a strong political science department...my goal is to get to a good undergrad school and work my way to that law school or transition to other good law schools. </p>
<p>I want to apply to ten school but that's what i came up with so far:</p>
<p>George Washington University
University of Florida
Georgetown
NYU
Darthmouth
Notre Dame</p>
<p>I have taken the SAT while i was in HS and my number were really low-half for everything...I came to the US while in the 9th grade...I didnt speak any english...but I had a 3.49 HS gpa. I am planning on retaking the SAT but my new delema is the math section...I did practices and I got 500's and 600's on the English parts... do you know if the SAT is weighted heavily even though I am a transfer student. any insight I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>thanks to all</p>
<p>everything except for dartmouth is within reach however you have to raise your SAT grade and you being an international student doesnt make up for the low sat scores.</p>
<p>none of them except flordia. are you in state at florida</p>
<p>A 3.45/3.5 is pretty low for most of those colleges. Virtually every good community college student applying to top colleges is a member of Phi Theta Kappa, so that doesn’t really help you, especially since your GPA indicates your grades have gone down since you joined (a 3.5 is the bare minimum GPA to get in).</p>
<p>If you’re a full-time student and employee, that shows perseverance and dedication, which is a good thing. Speaking multiple languages fluently is also always a plus. But really, if your grades are going down and your GPA is still relatively low compared to the typical community college applicant to most of those colleges, I think you’re going to need to do some serious work to get in. I have friends who had 4.0 averages and won national scholarships and still didn’t get in at George Washington, and I even have a friend who got into Harvard (before they got rid of transfer admissions) but not Georgetown. (Also, if I’m not mistaken, doesn’t Dartmouth specifically say on their website that they rarely take community college transfers? I seem to be remembering that from when I went through the process.)</p>
<p>I think that with a declining GPA and such “low” scores on practice SATs, which predict your ability to do first-year college work (much less junior year), indicating you might not be ready for upper-level work at such competitive places, you might want to consider looking at some solid public universities. You’ll still get a great education, and you might not find yourself struggling to keep up as much as you might at some of the colleges you’ve listed.</p>