<p>so do colleges keep your applications around and if you were rejected as a freshman applicant do they pull that file and look at it? like look at the recs or anything then lookat your new one? or what?</p>
<p>That’s what the lady at Penn told me.</p>
<p>I think at Columbia, they don’t keep any of your old materials except for electronically submitted SAT Scores. At least that’s what it says on their website.</p>
<p>what about georgetown?</p>
<p>Had 3.7 in HS
Had 3.85 in Frosh of College</p>
<p>Okay, I have a question for anyone who cares.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted into Virginia Tech as a high school senior. I knew I was going to go to UVa-Wise, so I didn’t even try that much. All I did was the application and sent in transcripts. No letters of rec, nothing like that. </p>
<p>I got waitlisted, and could still get in I suppose, but I really want to move up there next year.</p>
<p>I talked to them and they told me that they didn’t look at any high school work for transfer students. Does that mean they don’t look at dual enrollment stuff I did while in high school? I did a BUNCH of stuff that should get me toward a PoliSci degree, and did well in it, but I also made D’s in PreCalc 1 and 2. </p>
<p>So should I retake those two PreCalc classes, or what? </p>
<p>If I retake those and do well (B’s,) take everything else a freshman usually does and do well (B’s and a few A’s,) should I be able to transfer into VT next year?</p>
<p>Wow, look at all these success stories! For me, none of this crap happened. I was a 3.4 High School student with poor class selections and low SAT scores and I was denied from George Mason, Radford, and Longwood. I didn’t give up and got a 3.80 for my 1st semester in my fall-back school and belong to many honor societies, clubs, have volunteer work, ect… I applied to 5 schools and so far I’ve been denied from 3 straight! William and Mary today, James Madison, and UVA is going to reject me on May 1st. I will most likely get into George Mason, but Mary Washington looks like another big fat ****ing rejection. Kids, take the hardest classes possible. GPA, SATs, and volunteer work are secondary to good Colleges’s admission staff.</p>
<p>3.4 college GPA at Top 35 LAC, accepted to Vanderbilt and UNC-Chapel Hill (OOS) </p>
<p>3.2 HS GPA (Honors and AP classes at competitive private school), 1240/1600 SAT </p>
<p>Persistence pays off! along with some ECs in college in addition to strong relationships with college adviser/professor </p>
<p>NEVER GIVE UP</p>
<p>I was waitlisted then rejected at Virginia Tech last year. I decided that VT wasn’t the school for me anyways and chose a 4 year institute in Ohio. I hated the university and applied transfer to Virginia Tech and I just was offered admission! I need to talk to my parents and friends but I think I’ll be accepting the offer.</p>
<p>To Avisron, I had a 3.2 weighted in high school with a 2010 SAT, solid ECs, decent essay, and no recs. When I applied transfer, it was from a top 50 college with a 3.3 GPA, much better essays, and two recs (one from a VT alum). They will look at your dual enrollment transcripts. You need to provide them with every transcript from every school you took classes in. Retaking those classes may be wise, but in the end it’s up to you. If you get Bs and As from UVA, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>cornell - denied CAS seniro yr of high school</p>
<p>cornell - accepted CALS as a jr transfer!</p>
<p>SAT 1220/1600
HS GPA 3.54
College GPA 3.78</p>
<p>Accepted NYU Stern</p>
<p>I have a pretty good story, LOL</p>
<p>In high school , I had about a 3.8 UW, 4.2 W, all Ap and honors courses, LOW LOW LOW SATs. I was out of state and had big aspirations so applied to all my first choice school despite my SAT scores which are no where near an indication of my potential. So I was denied from UCLA and UC San Diego, and UF (applied two months late, mom made me, had no desire to stay in FL). I got into UMD-CP, UDubb-Seattle, UMass-Amherst, FSU, and UCF. I was waitlisted at my second choice, UVA. I chose to go to Maryland but had to come home for several reasons. I transferred into UMiami as a sPring transfer freshmen year on a whim and for special reasons. I just got into UNC-Chapel Hill and am waiting on McIntire.</p>
<p>It can happen! A school I would’ve been FLAT OUT DENIED by, I got in and I’m hoping on UVA too, then I make a decision.</p>
<p>So, I have a reasonably long story as well. I was flat out rejected from UNC last year EA application, but this was probably because I’m from out of state. Anyways, my high school stats include 3.75 uw high school gpa, 4.6 wgpa. All honors, accelerated, and ap courses. Reasonable SATs and ACT scores (540 CW, 580CR, 700M/29 composite). Tons of extracurriculars, leadership roles etc. I was rejected from UNC and Notre Dame last year with EA applications, waitlisted at BC. I was accepted at UMich, UMaryland-CP, Penn State, 'Cuse, and UMASS. I decided to go to UMich. So I attended orientation and found out my program was to be extended to 6 years(sportmgmt/business dual). I switched to go to UMASS in the fall because UMich out of state tuition is a bit expensive for a 6 year undergrad education. I’m in the Honors College here, but I hate it so I applied to UNC, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Clemson,(all of which I’ve been accepted to), UVA(waitlisted), BC and 'Cuse(I have yet to hear). I do activities at UMASS and have a little higher than an 3.8 GPA. As of now I will be going to UNC next fall in hopes to get into KF but I will need to decide between UNC and UVA if I get off the wlist.</p>
<p>My D was rejected by W&M last year and went to Bryn Mawr College, which was her first choice. She applied to 4 schools as a transfer- UVA, W&M, James Madison and UNC-CH and has been accepted at all of them.</p>
<p>Her HS GPA was 3.8 something UW, with SATs around 700 for each of the sections. She did get a full IB diploma. Her college GPA for first semester was around 3.4 (she felt that you need to “walk on water” to get an “A” at BMC). Her anticipated GPA for this semester is 3.8 and she felt she had very good recommendations and strong essays. (I thought the essays could have been tightened up, but only saw them after they were sent.)</p>
<p>Right now she is trying to decide between W&M which is less of a culture change from BMC but is less desirable for her major (cultural anthro) and UVA which has a great program but may have a bit too much of a party culture.</p>
<p>High school admissions decision:
Applied & Rejected: Johns Hopkins, Washington University St.Louis, University of Michigan, UC-Berkeley.
Accepted: University of Maryland, University of Illinois Urbana-champaign</p>
<p>Transfer admission decision:
The only school I applied to: Washington University St. Louis. (accepted and attending)</p>
<p>International Student
1700/2100 SAT
3.8 college GPA</p>
<p>Indeed, gsweitzer is right, persistence pays off.</p>
<p>Actually Notre Dame is ranked by US News & World Reports 18 and Georgetown is 23, so it would be considered a “step up”. If the person preferred Notre Dame that is all that is important.</p>
<p>Does yale and penn allow transfers to take the SAT after they matriculated at a college?</p>
<p>I couldn’t find it on their websites and I’m from overseas so calling the school would be expensive.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>From the Y website concerning standardized testing for transfers:</p>
<p>[Required</a> Testing | Transfer Students | Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/testing.html]Required”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/testing.html)</p>
<p>"Required Testing</p>
<p>Yale requires the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) SAT Reasoning Test (SAT I) (Code No. 3987) or the ACT Assessment Plus Writing (Code No. 0618). Scores from the January sat test date or the February act test date should reach us in time for consideration. Only scores reported directly to Yale by the College Board or the ACT are considered official. (Copies sent directly from the secondary school are also considered official.) If you have not already requested that your scores be forwarded, please do so immediately. International students are required to submit SAT I or ACT results unless they are studying outside the U.S. in a country without accessible testing centers (e.g. China and Iran). However, if you are currently residing or attending school in a country where the ACT with Writing or the SAT Reasoning Test is offered, you are required to take either test and submit official test results to Yale."</p>
<p>Since they let you submit results from the Jan SAT of the year you’re applying for a transfer, you can take while it in college.</p>
<p>Penn’s website doesn’t specify one way or the other. Send them an email and ask.</p>
<p>I’ve talked to the director of transfer admissions at Penn and he said that SAT scores are not very meaningful for transfer students. He pretty much explained that SAT scores are a predictor of how well you’re going to do in your first year in college and since they already have that, it’s not important. He said not to retake them.</p>
<p>I was denied to UChicago and Columbia my senior year and as a transfer coming from a liberal arts college, I’ve been accepted and waitlisted (respectively).</p>
<p>I would say what changed my results was not necessarily grades (although the lack of emphasis on my SATs must have helped)…but my essays. I made them very catered towards each school, why I wanted to leave my school X to go to their school Y. I also made sure that I didn’t make any false pretenses, I was very honest and I tried to portray myself instead of some “perfected collegiate version.”</p>