<p>I'm in my third semester at the City College of New York (CCNY), and am looking to transfer to another school. These are my stats:</p>
<p>I'm in my third semester at the City College of New York. I have a 3.9 GPA. My High School GPA was around 87/100...my SATs? Well, I got a 730 in Critical Reading, 590 in writing and an embarrassing 490 in Math. I have several 5s, 4s, and 3s in various AP courses, though I don't even know if they're considered during the application process...</p>
<p>Additional Data about my coursework and my extracurriculars: I'm a political science major who has done a mixture of core classes and poly sci courses...A few of my courses include upper level jewish studies and asian anthropology courses (which I've gotten As in), in fact I'm technically dual majoring in Jewish Studies now, though I don't plan to pursue that if I transfer...as for ECs, I'm only a member of my campus radio club and asian studies club currently, but I plan to join the history club and an organization for campus secularists and atheists.</p>
<p>These are the schools I'm applying to:</p>
<p>Safeties:
Fordham
U of Pittsburgh
University of Washington, Seattle</p>
<p>Reach-Midrange:
Georgetown
U of Michigan
Boston College
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Dream Schools I probably don't have much of a chance to get into but goddamn I gotta try:</p>
<p>Columbia
U of Chicago
UC Berkeley</p>
<p>....So, is this a realistic appraisal of what my reaches are and what my safeties ought to be? </p>
<p>wow, how do you have such a big gap between the critical reading and writing? that's unusual. anyway sat's don't matter as you'll be a junior applicant (assuming you're applying for fall transfer and not spring)</p>
<p>i'm not sure if some of your midrange schools are really match/target schools...georgetown and BC are pretty elite and not easy to get into. u michigan and notre dame are also not easy, they all might be reaches.</p>
<p>Interesting profile. It would help to know what APs you took & the score for each exam.
Writing scores don't mean anything. Some of the best creative & original writers get low scores as this SAT section is graded on the simplistic 5 paragraph model for the essay portion. Truly talented writers spend more time thinking than writing anyway. The CR score of 730 is outstanding!
Also of interest is that a Jewish Studies major wants to attend Notre Dame and Fordham & Boston College.
P.S. And my name isn't Percy, per se.
P.P.S. Consider the University of Wisconsin.</p>
<p>Ah, I knew I should have done some spell checking before I posted. Now I've made a fool of myself! I'll keep the correct spelling of per se in my mind for future reference.</p>
<p>My AP scores:</p>
<p>AP World History (or is it Civilization? I can't remember the exact title): 5/5
AP American History: 5/5
AP European History: 5/5
AP English 3, Rhetoric: 4/5
AP English 4, Literature: 4/5
AP American Government 3/5</p>
<p>As for the disparity between my CR SAT score and my Math SAT Score, I think that's the result of high school laziness. English and History classes sort of just came to me - by exerting minimal effort I got excellent scores. In contrast, I actually had to work to do well in math and science, something I didn't like doing back then and am working fast to remedy now.</p>
<p>"Hey what are your reasons for transferring out of CCNY? How has it been there?"</p>
<p>It's a good school, overall...amazingly diverse, which adds an interesting international element to the college...however, even with the addition of dorms it's very much a commuter school, and it lacks a great deal of school spirit, which is something I'd like to experience - unity and pride in attending a common institution. On the whole, it's great financially - 4k per year for a New Yorker like me.</p>
<p>Do you guys think NYU would be in my range? Transfers to NYU are strongly recommended to have taken SAT subject tests, which I have never done...will that screw me over if I apply there?</p>
<p>I would say it's a good idea to do anything they strongly recommend, considering it's not an easy school to transfer to. If English/History comes easily to you, why not take the English Lit and maybe World History or U.S History exams?</p>
<p>btw, if your reading comprehension is strong, you will not have to study for the Lit SAT II, it's really easy. Don't bother preparing for it all in fact...I actually bought a book to study for it, and I got a 500something on the practice test. On the actual test I got a 780, so the book was crap.</p>