<p>I was extremely competitive in high school (graduated 4th in my class, good SATs, etc...) and was able to get into prestigious schools. I decided to go to RPI and will probably finish my first semester with about a 1.7. I'm going to work hard next semester to boost my GPA, but are there decent state schools that will accept me as a transfer student?</p>
<p>I'd like to transfer to UCONN but it seems like they have a minimum GPA requirement that I might not reach. Do people in my situation just go to community college for a semester (which I wouldn't like to do) or are there any other options available so that I can likely be accepted as a transfer for fall 2009.</p>
<p>youre certainly in a pickle. You should probably accept, however, that you have no chance at getting in for fall '09. grades you get next semester most likely wont be seen by uconn if you apply for fall '09...</p>
<p>if your goal is to get into uconn, i would stay where you're at...if a potential 4 year transfer school sees you couldnt cut it at another 4 year transfer school and had to move down to a cc, that will not reflect well on your app...try to boost that gpa up...fall '09 is out of the question, i think, put in two years of good work to try and compensate for this semester and you might have a shot for fall '10</p>
<p>I guess i'm in a serious pickle then. I don't like rpi at all and I can't see myself spending another year here. Maybe things will pick up next semester but I seriously doubt it. I guess I'll just apply to a bunch of schools and hopefully I'll get in somewhere :</p>
<p>I forgot to mention this but I've been depressed (I saw the school's psychiatrist and psychologist for a while but stopped going) and it undoubtedly affected my schoolwork, is there anyway I can get some sort of sympathy for this?</p>
<p>Worst case scenario is that I don't come back next semester and start of fall 09 as a freshman (I'd be a year behind but it beats playing catch up and being miserable for the next 4 years or so).</p>
<p>perhaps there is a chance you could recieve sympathy, although i would not expect it...ask around and see if that kind of thing happens...because if you had very competitive hs grades and fell off for one semester of college because of your depression, then there is perhaps a school could overlook one bad semester if you were otherwise a very competitive applicant outside of this...you also have to be sure that if this depression effected your performance at your current institution it will not do the same at your next one....and I'm assuming you were diagnosed and on meds or else this would sound like a bad excuse for poor performance (one that lots of people on cc tend to develop) to most schools and you'd be back where you were...</p>
<p>If your present school is absolutely unbearable and you don't want to attend CC to bring up your GPA, you can try applying to UConn and a couple other 4 year schools, the worst that can happen is they say "no", right? If you choose to go this route, I would strongly suggest you have a solid backup plan (like CC or a smaller, less selective regional state college) that allows you to bring up your GPA and reapply next year.</p>
<p>Not sure how the sympathy thing would play out, I don't know how selective UConn is or if they're willing to bend their requirements to accomodate students in your position. I would suspect most medical conditions would require some sort of confirmation from a health professional. What are the chances the psychiatrist would provide a letter for you since you said you stopped going for treatment (or did I misinterpret your post)?</p>
<p>Sorry I can't be of more help, give UConn a try but have a backup plan in place. Good luck.</p>
<p>This might or might not help, but a friend of mine was in a somewhat similar situation. He got pretty bad grades (worse than yours) at the ivy he was attending, and ended up moving out of state. After a while he decided to apply to the local state university (a solid, but not spectacular school), and got what I would consider a conditional acceptance. Essentially, he's now in a position where if he can maintain a c average for the next semester he can either get guaranteed admittance to the new college or go back to the ivy, depending on where he'd feel most comfortable.</p>
<p>No matter what you decide to do, I'd highly recommend sorting out your personal problems before potentially compounding the issue with the stress from school.</p>