<p>Anyone here get an Ivy League Transfer with a HS GPA below 3.0?</p>
<p>I have. But due to my age, they really didn't consider my HS grades like they did my college transcripts. My H.S. was around a 2.3. However, that WAS 14 years ago. I got into two Ivies (Penn and Yale).</p>
<p>I don't know that it was under 3.0, but if it wasn't it was clsoe!</p>
<p>what i've read makes me think its definetely possible, but you have to be a junior transfer with a badass gpa and a good reason for transfer (think support of a professor). at least for a harvard or yale. but that kid who forged his transcript had a 3.97 from a community college.</p>
<p>who knows? thomash32, did you apply to that adult education type thing at yale? the one where you get a degree and res. college assignment, but live off-campus?</p>
<p>hmmm i remember passingly about the kid who forged his grades, what was the story again?</p>
<p>kid from community college applies to yale as transfer, has garbage gpa (low 2s if i recall correctly) but forges a transcript that has a 3.97 and gets in. thats not even straight-as at a community college, and he got into yale (where he performed spectacularly until his ruse was discovered).</p>
<p>researching transfer admissions, i was initially disheartened just by browsing the princeton review website and seeing the "top 50% of high school class: 100%" column. but thats freshman data. colleges really dont release transfer data in-depth as far as i know. it doesnt hurt them to admit an off-kilter transfer provided theres other compelling reasons, whereas pretty much no freshman, no matter how unique, will get into yale out of the bottom half of his class. a successfull transfer, imo, at least if youre talking about upper-ivies, will have both a stellar college gpa (at or near 4.0) coupled with a damn good reason for transfer. its not just saying "oh, i can do the work". kids like that get weeded out quickly (with exceptions). transfer students are a very diverse group.</p>
<p>/rant</p>
<p>That is pretty much what I heard at the Georgetown transfer session (diverse group of students transfer in)</p>
<p>~Matt</p>
<p>How did the kid get caught?</p>
<p>Because his other transcript showed the truth. </p>
<p>He had a 2.077, he changed it to a 3.92, not a 3.97, and he most certainly did not do spectacularly-- he claimed he had a B average, but the political science department says that he had just a handul of Bs, and many Cs and Ds.</p>
<p>heh, can someone just post the article?</p>
<p>I got into Emory, Tufts and WUSTL with a High School GPA of about 3.1 (11.63 out of a possible 15.00)...</p>
<p>Not Ivy league but still very good schools and as I understand it the selectivity of these schools is similar to Cornell and UPENN</p>
<p>wellum...Yes, I applied to Yale's Special Student Program. It's basically for non-traditional aged undergrads (me), but I don't get the Residential College affiliation. That's ok, at my age I really am not concerned with the Residential affiliations. The important thing is I got into Yale...I'll live in a box, off-campus, if I have to :)</p>
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Not Ivy league but still very good schools and as I understand it the selectivity of these schools is similar to Cornell and UPENN
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<p>Not Emory or Tufts. I am not sure about WUSTL.</p>
<p>Penn/Cornell are quite a bit more selective than Emory or Tufts.</p>
<p>I am going to present an arguement, and I am not sure if i agree with it, but go with me for the moment. The gpa you have is reflective of what you did in high school. However, I think that you can make a rational argument that their are more important things to do in high school then get a 3.0. I go to a top-15 college, and I did not even have a 3.3 in high school. What I am trying to say is that if you can show that you were doing more important things with your time in high school, and can demonstrate that you are academically capable in some other manner, then I am not sure why they can not admit you. One can see a similar argument in home schooled students, although some key differences do exist.</p>
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What I am trying to say is that if you can show that you were doing more important things with your time in high school, and can demonstrate that you are academically capable in some other manner, then I am not sure why they can not admit you.
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<p>The problem is that some students, like me, just did not take high school seriously; it is not a question of counterbalancing for us "late-bloomers," it is a question of being able to perform consistently well at the college level. Depending on how low the high school GPA is, it may require more than one year to demonstrate capability.</p>
<p>I agree. I never took it seriously. Hell, I even failed 10th grade Algebra II.</p>
<p>I would hope that two years of 4.0's in college take care of my low GPA, and I hope getting A's in multi-var calculus and 400-level logic courses prove that I can handle 10th grade algebra.</p>
<p>...but I guess we'll see on Monday...</p>
<p>where did you apply?</p>
<p>I sent apps to Brown, Notre Dame, NU, and Rice, but I'm only really serious about going to Brown.</p>
<p>Did you get into Rice?</p>