<p>My Stat's</p>
<p>GPA 3.5
SAT 2051
EC: Assistant at a neuropsychological testing lab
Student government President
Student Ambassador
Student intern at a psychological association for the homebound
Teen Court Attorney
SIT (Skating In The schools) assistant coach
Competitive figure skater (I will be going to regional this October)
Runway, and charity fashion shows (5 so far)
English tutor for college students.</p>
<p>Volunteer: I have over 150 hours of volunteer service in a wide range of fields and environments.</p>
<p>Major: I plan to major in Clinical psychology or Behavioral Neuropsycholoy</p>
<p>High school: I went to a boarding school In India for a year and then I was home schooled for my junior high school. For high school I decided not to go. So I went to a local community college and took what they call the CPE (course placement exam) and stated taking lower level college courses and now that I am 16 and I will be getting my associates degree in Human Resources Spring 2006.</p>
<p>Prospective schools: Stanford (EA)
Yale
Princeton</p>
<p>Safety Schools: UCLA
UCSB
UC Berkeley
Indiana University Bloomington.</p>
<p>*Even though my GPA isnt good do you think they will consider that I am young and have been taking college level classes since I was 14 that I might have a chance of getting in? Stanford preferably.</p>
<p>You may have a shot at Stanford, Yale, or Princeton, but please keep in many that there will be a great many people with excellent credentials applying for each transfer opening at each of those schools.</p>
<p>UCLA and Berkeley are also very selective. I'm not sure that I would be so quick to label them as "safety schools." </p>
<p>Are you attending a community college in California? That can have an impact on your chances as Berkeley, UCLA, and the other UC's.</p>
<p>I know Indiana University has a fine reputation, but am not familiar enough with its admissions practices to hazard an opinion.</p>
<p>I'd work at coming up with a list of safer "safeties" to add to the list of schools to which you apply.</p>
<p>When I was in high school, I applied to only three colleges; two of them were real reaches, and the third of them was not a true safety. I was rejected at the reaches (both of them on your list), and was fortunate enough to be offered admission to the third, with an affordable financial aid package. (The following year, a friend from my high school with similar stats was wait-listed, then rejected from the third school.)</p>
<p>I'll tell you, though, that the whole experience made for an unnecessarily stressful year. You can avoid a similar experience by applying to some other schools where you would be happy to attend, and where your odds of admission are really solid.</p>
<p>First of all, Princeton doesn't take any transfers and there is no EA policy for Transfer Admissions. Secondly, 2051 is not a possible SAT score; did you mean 2050? If this is the case, it's pretty low (especially when combined with your GPA). Third, what college is that GPA from? If it is a community college, it is going to hurt you that it is low and your SAT is going to be more significant. Finally, your ECs are strong, you're going to have to play up the skating thing a lot... make it a highlight of your application (you want the adcom to remember you as the "____ figure skater", where the blank is an academic highlight). Good luck to you, I'm starting as a transfer this fall at Stanford and am willing to answer any questions you may have... PM me if you have any.</p>
<p>As for your chances:</p>
<p>Princeton = N/A
Stanford, Yale = Super Reaches
UCB, UCLA = Reaches (If you're in-state, could be matches depending on major)
UCSB, IU-Bloomington = Safe-Matches</p>
<p>-Eddie-</p>
<p>To have any chance at UCB or UCLA you must be going to a California CC, and if you are going to a California CC you have very little chance at Yale or Stanford. Some California CC's offer transfer-plans to UCLA or UCSD that will guarantee you a spot, you might want to look into these.</p>
<p>Looks like you're going to a CC in Santa Fe, NM. Applying to any UC's would be a waste of time. Stanford is going to be a Super-Duper reach, but easier than Yale because Stanford is relatively transfer-friendly.
UCSB is not a safety or a match, it's also a reach.
I'm not sure about IU-Bloomington.</p>
<p>There are plenty of good schools transfer-friendly schools to look at though. If you like California you might want to look at, Pitzer, Occidental and Scripps. These are all very respectable LAC's that are relatively transfer-friendly and that you probably have a shot at.
If you like the Bay Area of California you should look at Santa Clara University which is a respectable university about 20 minutes away from Stanford. While it's often overshadowed by Berkeley and Stanford, it offers fine-quality academics.
Emory might be a reasonable reach, and it's a very good school. They don't require SAT scores from transfer students. You might want to look at more schools that don't require SAT scores from transfer students. </p>
<p>Re-take the SAT and do a lot better and then you might have a chance at Stanford, but please apply to some reasonable reaches and matches.</p>
<p>The fact that you do not realize that Princeton does not accept transfer applications makes clear that you have not researched the schools enough. You must research the schools you are applying to, you should be calling the admissions offices and explaining your unique situation. You are by no means a traditional transfer student, you might be able to apply for regular admissions which would give you a better shot at all of those schools. <em>contact the admissions departments!</em> the people are usually very nice.
P.S: Cool to meet someone here from Santa Fe!</p>
<p>Wow! You need to do some research. I'm not going to ask why you're 15 years old and in a CC, because I don't think it really matters. Its good that you're shooting for the stars, but do you mind if I ask what made you think that your stats could get you into Stanford and that UCLA and Berkeley were safety schools? I believe that the average transfer GPA into Cal is around 3.8, with the vast majority of those students coming from CCC, so even if you went to a CCC you still couldn't look at Cal as a safety. I imagine that UCLA is about the same. Again, I assume you have some special circumstances to explain why you are in the situation that you're in, but maybe you should just go to your local 4 year university and if you do as well as I'm sure you can, then maybe apply to these schools for your grad work. I don't want to be harsh, and considering that you've done so well in college courses at such a young age I think its obvious that you're very bright, but you really have very, very little chance getting into any of the UCs or stanford.</p>
<p>Sorry, but nobody is going to give you slack or bonus GPA points for skipping high school at age 14 and scoring mediocre B+/A- grades, especially in community college. It's not as rare as you think to find young high school students have taken difficult college courses (e.g. linear algebra, ochem, etc) with straight A/A+ grades. </p>
<p>Princeton - Zero
Stanford, Yale - no chance unless you make the Olympic team as a figure skater
Cal, UCLA - super duper reach
UCSB - reach</p>