<p>in high school (didn't care much) 2.8 GPA, Low S.A.T.'s
everything</p>
<p>i am attending a private University
1rst Semester 4.0
2nd Semester 4.0
I also intern at a law firm
MY SOPHOMORE year i will get another 4.0</p>
<p>if i were 2 apply to schools like Columbia, Duke, Cornell, GeorgeTown, Notre Dame, UVA
as a junior for transfer, u think i can get in?</p>
<p>any suggestions
thanks
is high school that much of a big emphasis when u apply as a junior
thanks!!</p>
<p>Georgetown and Notre Dame really good chance
Columbia and Duke good chance
Cornell and UVA least chance</p>
<p>UVA is a public so a lot of spots will go the CC transfers. I pretty sure they have some sort of feeder system where if you have certain GPA etc from a VA CC your going to get in. For the most part they are all on par with each other. If you can keep a 4.0 (or close) you should get in at least one or two. Work experience seemed to help me in transferring. Lots of private schools won’t care about HS after even one year out, so two years out it’s a very small factor if at all. College GPA will be the main factor ahead of SAT/ACT then EC then HS GPA.</p>
<p>College LORs, the difficulty of your courses and to some extent the college you currently attend are also factors in transferring as a jr.</p>
<p>thanks a bunch guys</p>
<p>I would retake the SATs for those schools that allow you to for your best shot.</p>
<p>I don’t think retaking the SAT will matter if your coming in as a jr. SAT is meant as a test to see if you’ll succeed in college. If you have two years of a great college GPA then SAT, even as poor one, will not matter much at all. I had okay SATs and a worse hs GPA than you and transfered to a comparable school after one year of college without retaking the SAT with a lower GPA than yours. I bet if you called any of those schools and asked them if they would rec you retake the SAT they’ll tell you as a jr unless your SAT is unreasonable low then they’ll say retake it if you wish, but it won’t factor in heavily.</p>
<p>Retaking your SAT could be crucial, depending on what “private university” you are attending. Anyone can get a 4.0 at The Adventists University of Southern Alabamissikanstucky. SAT is a universal benchmark. Retaking it would solidify his case IMO, b/c his case is very extreme. Adcoms are going to be skeptical.</p>
<p>i got to Fairleigh Dickinson University
it has multiple campuses
its known for business engineering, and dentistry</p>
<p>my S.A.T’s were low
should i apply after my 3rd semester grades come in?
or during my 3rd semester of my sophomore year</p>
<p>I had 2.0 HS GPA (full-time work/close to 55 hours senior year for family support), 590 Math, 560 verbal, 510 Reading, one year at Arizona State with a 3.4 each class was a general requirement. I transferred to University of Southern California. One of my suitemates there had a bad HS gpa good SATs and a better GPA than mine transferred to McGill after one year. The other suitemate had okay HS GPA, good verbal, bad math (or vice versa don’t remember) better GPA than mine and is transferring to Cornell after two years at ASU. None of us retook the SAT and Cornell/McGill/USC are on level with your schools. Your time will be better spent picking up a EC or maintaining GPA than studying for SATs.</p>
<p>For the schools you’re targeting, I’d recommend retaking the SATs as your current college does not show up on the radar (I’ve been around CC quite a while and I haven’t even heard of it). You’re going to need a standardized test to show schools that your 4.0 gpa really means something.</p>
<p>Also, I’d advise that you add some more match/safety colleges to your list, those are all reachy.</p>
<p>The further away from your poor HS record the better, apply during your soph year for a jr transfer.</p>
<p>X-posted with Selk.</p>
<p>i had a 3.0 in high school</p>
<p>went to county college for 2 years</p>
<p>now im going to Cornell. i call that a pwn 
haha honestly, anything you put your mind to is possible :]</p>
<p>I agree with entomom that you will want to apply to a few lower schools. I applied to Clemson/UMD/IU/UVA as well as USC. I got into eveyone but UVA. So you’d be rolling the dice if you don’t apply to a lower school than the listed ones. If I were you apply choose 3 of the six listed, and 2 slighty lower schools</p>
<p>i see i see</p>
<p>At schools that ask for them, SATs still matter for junior transfers.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, admissions offices are already buried in information. If they don’t need/want something, they won’t ask for it.</p>
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<p>Are you sure it’s easier to transfer to Columbia than it is Cornell? Columbia is ranked at #8 in the nation while Cornell is 14th.</p>
<p>^ Agreed.</p>
<p>Columbia and Duke are both extremely difficult to transfer into.</p>
<p>No offense, but Selk doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about. Your chances at Columbia, Duke, and Cornell (depends what school though) are a long shot for you. Georgetown is a little more realistic but it’s still not a guarantee by any means, I’d lean towards no but it might be worth a shot. I’d say you have a decent shot at ND, maybe UVa.</p>
<p>Some people have this idea on here that if you do well in college schools don’t care about your HS record, which is true for most schools, but for the top schools that you mention it is almost never the case. Most everyone who is applying to those schools have great college grades AND awesome HS records anyway, why would they pick you when you’ve only proven yourself over a year or two at a TTT? Unless you have a really solid hook, I wouldn’t even bother applying to Col, D, or Cornell A&S. You will be putting a LOT of work into the apps for those schools and will need to tailor your essays for each one, I just don’t think it’s worth the effort when you can get a comparable education at school a school with slightly lower prestige you have a much better shot at. </p>
<p>I’m really not trying to be an @ss but only trying to give you the harsh truth I wish I had gotten when I was applying a little over a year ago. I ended up at a very fine public school and although it wasn’t my top choice I honestly think it was for the better as I absolutely love it where I’m at and can’t imagine being happier anywhere else. College is what you make of it, you don’t need to go to an Ivy to be great.</p>
<p>I second Hmom’s advice. Retake the SATs. If you blow it out of the park, that will destroy any possible speculation by the adcoms that you were just taking easy classes. It will also definitively show that from an objective perspective you have become more prepared to do college level coursework.</p>
<p>I don’t know how specific schools will weigh SAT scores but I can tell you that the SAT’s are hardly going to be an objective measure of how well you will do in college level coursework, especially when you have real college grades to prove that. I know plenty of friends who did poorly on SAT’s (including myself my scores were pretty average) and are pulling a 3.7+</p>
<p>Unless you can improve substantially, which takes a LOT of time studying, I’d say it’s a waste of time but if you have the time to pull a 2300 or something it could be worthwhile. Putting that time into a substantive EC would be a much better use of your time imo.</p>