<p>I am a high school senior and was recently rejected from all of my colleges and will be attending my safety school. All of my stats were top tier, except for the SAT -- I got a 1760.</p>
<p>The dean of admissions from one of the colleges flat out said it: "Everything was great, but your score was too low."</p>
<p>I want to transfer to my top choice school, Georgetown, sophomore year. I will also apply to GWU, Brown, Columbia and maybe some others.</p>
<p>Most of these schools (especially Georgetown) say that they require the SATs for transfer admissions. The problem is that they don't say how much the SATs level compared to college GPA, extracurriculars, etc.</p>
<p>Would it be worth it to study all summer, attend classes and study study study to try to get a near 2400? Then take the SAT while I'm in freshman year of college. Or should I stick with the 1760? I'm aiming for a 4.0 in college in addition to continuing my high school extracurriculars (founder/ceo small business), teaching abroad and starting new college activities.</p>
<p>Or would applying with a 3.8+ college gpa, killer extracurriculars but a low SAT be enough? I virtually have the same stats right now, but the SAT is what got me rejected even from my low matches.</p>
<p>It's all for Georgetown! I have an incredible travel/teaching opportunity this summer, but would the SATs be more important to be able to transfer into Georgetown? Thanks.</p>
<p>If you want to transfer to one of the schools you listed, everything about your transfer application has to be top notch, especially given that you’ll be applying as a sophomore (I have heard it said that junior transfers sometimes get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their high-school credentials, but that won’t apply to you next year).</p>
<p>Georgetown and Columbia will have dozens of people to pick from for every transfer spot, and most of them will not be attending their safety school, and will have more impressive SAT scores than you. Some of them will likely have already been accepted as freshmen; others will be coming in from Amherst, Harvard, Dartmouth, etc. And then you get the non-traditional students with unique personal histories and backgrounds. You will need every aspect of your application to be stellar to even be considered.</p>
<p>So take advantage of this “incredible travel/teaching opportunity” AND raise your test scores. You can’t pick between strengthening your ECs and improving your SAT score; you need both.</p>
<p>My grades were good, but I slipped up A LOT this year, senior year.</p>
<p>My plan is to study and practice the SAT this summer as much as possible, get a 4.0 in college freshmen year, naturally build up on more ECs and then apply for transfer to these schools. If I don’t make it sophomore transfer, then I can do the process again and apply for junior transfer.</p>
<p>How much more do the SATs count toward the overall application in sophomore transfer than junior transfer?</p>
<p>You shouldn’t plan on transferring, especially to highly selective schools. Make the most of where you are so you’re happy if transferring doesn’t work out. </p>
<p>Also, you won’t be able to raise your score to a near 2400 from a 1700 unless there was some dramatic reason that caused the 1700 in the first place. With huge amounts of work you can maybe raise your score to something around 2000, but anyway colleges generally frown on takin the SAT in college unless you’re a CC student. </p>
<p>Soph your SATs will matter about the same amount as freshman year. Junior some schools don’t care at all (like the UC’s), some consider a lot less but still consider them (pretty much most highly selective colleges), and some weigh at the same level. It all depends.</p>
<p>I was getting upwards of 2000 on blue-book practice tests and understand a lot of the material. Then, when I took the test I actually scored lower than the previous year.</p>
<p>So this summer I am going to practice, practice practice, take rigorous courses and then the SAT again in October.</p>
<p>Then re-apply for transfer. If it doesn’t work out then of course it’s fine, but I’ll also have some safety transfers.</p>