<p>Hi, I am currently a freshmen looking to transfer; because I feel the college I am in now is too small, boring, no clubs, and I am not having a good experience here. I am always with friends at RPI on the weekends, so I know the campus inside and out. I feel like that college is better for me because I love all the clubs and opportunities they have. Also their psychology program seems more profound than the one I am currently taking at my college.</p>
<p>The issue about transfering is, my high school GPA was horrible in my opinion. I slacked because I was involved in so many clubs and sports. It came out to be an average of 85. (My H.S. never did GPA grading system).
I took AP: Biology, AP: Literature & Composition, AP: Language & Composition.
Currently I am competing DII Track & Field at my college now.
My SATs were horrible so I would feel better with my ACT of 23.
Currently, my college grades have a GPA of 3.4 I have improved tremendously and my professors said they would be honored to write me a recommendation. I am in 3 honor societies.
How hard will it be to be accepted as a transfer?</p>
<p>If you are interested in a psych major, I don’t really think RPI is the best place to get one at. Are you sure there aren’t any other colleges around that have a good psychology program?</p>
<p>All of the psych classes I have taken (including 4000 levels) have been a joke here.</p>
<p>Re: Transfer qualifications-- It really depends what kind of college you’re coming from. You didn’t tell us if it was a community college, liberal arts, etc. A 3.4 is pretty decent for a college gpa, however for a transfer up to a university like RPI it might be lacking.</p>
<p>You should try to find a college that is good for you, not necessarily the one you have the most friends at.</p>
<p>Agree 100% with JoshuaGuit. RPI’s not a good place to major solely in psych. I think only 1 of the 5 psych classes I took in my undergrad was even remotely worthwhile.</p>
<p>In one of them (the second to last one) I walked out in the middle of class on the first day because it was so bad. I ended up actually finishing the class for the credit, but I don’t think I spent more than 3 or 4 hours on that class the entire semester (including the 4 or 5 4-page papers we had to write, which I did during one of my rare visits to lecture). The last class was even worse, but attendance was required so I just ended up reading math or cs papers / books during class (side note: if you want a printed version of Arora & Barak, I can hook you up). To be fair, though, I missed out on some of the better classes due to scheduling problems.</p>
<p>Anyway, to repeat JoshuaGuit’s point: it’s hard to tell anything about your chances given the information you’ve given us, especially since you’re not even done with a full semester of college. Transfer applications are generally due pretty late, so perhaps it would better to focus on your studies now and ask again later after you’ve received your end-of-semester grades.</p>