<p>So I graduated high school with a 3.4ish gpa and a 1810 on the SAT
I was president of my class three years, member of a few clubs, loads of community service, great recomendations from faculty and community, as a senior I was given an award from a local legislator for community service, worked part time. I know my grades were not extremely impressive, but i do feel I had a pretty wellrounded application.</p>
<p>At a local Community College, which is known as a top 10 Community College in the country; I have my gpa up to a 3.88..was just elected to serve on the student government, member of the polysci club (my major), still work part time and continue to volunteer.</p>
<p>I know out of high school I could not get into the following the schools but I hope with my GPA way up now, the schools would focus more on my college work than my SAT scores.
So do I have a chance at getting into any of the following schools as a junior polysci major:</p>
<p>Georgetown
American Univeristy
GeorgeWashington
NYU
Fordham
Cornell
University of Virginia
Boston College
University of Delaware
UNC Chapel Hill</p>
<p>I appreciate any input and I will chance back! Thanks guys</p>
<p>Honestly, I think it is different for each schoo, as each takes a different number of students. As a NY student, it will be harder for you to get in at UVA and UNC simply because they have more rigorous admissions criteria for OOS students - U Del less so, but still more chancey. From this list, I would say that Georgetown/Cornell/UVA would be the hardest for you to get into, but I think you have a good shot at GW, American, and Fordham; I don’t know enough about BC and NYU’s transfer rates to comment on those.</p>
<p>Have you retaken the SAT? That might help a lot! Or tried the ACT?</p>
<p>The schools i spoke to said not to retake the SAT because either they arent going to look at the scores since I would be entering as a junior (they said they would focus mostly on my college work), or they will only look at the High school scores…but all said they are not going to carry much weight either way.</p>
<p>I actually got into Udel out of high school but decided to stay home, and NYU and BC are actually the two schools I have targeted most
Thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Although you didn’t mention this, I know if you attend a UC community college, it isn’t too hard to get into some great schools like UC Berkeley and UCLA. I am not sure how it is in the east coast, but I heard that in California the UC schools have relationships with close community colleges.</p>
<p>NYU is hard to predict, because I know of one person who was accepted who didn’t have good grades, and a second person who had awesome grades and wasn’t accepted.</p>
<p>Well, i actually live on the east coast so i dont go to a UC CC but i’ve heard the same about NYU…i just had a friend accepted with soso transfer stats and i know people who have been rejected with great grades so I think I have a shot but its a toss up</p>
<p>^Asides from Georgetown and Cornell, if you apply to them all I would like to say you’d get into somewhere. From what I’ve heard transferring into NYU is not difficult. I think you should get into UVa, which is a great school as well.</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback…ya i know cornell and georgetown are my reaches but I figure why not apply, who knows what could happen
But it’s nice to hear some reassurance thanks</p>