<p>I'm currently attending a community college now and am planning on transferring to a 4 year school after either this semester or next semester. After this semester ill have completed 35 credits and I'm probably going to take around 2 or 3 more classes before transferring. I'm pursuing a business major but will apply as undecided to these schools (if that's possible?). My dream schools are Penn State UP and Syracuse (preferably Penn State). Here are my 'stats':</p>
<p>Intro to statistics- A
Business Intro - A
Psychology - A
English 1- A
Microeconomics - A
Macroeconomics - A
Business Ethics - A
'American Masculinity' (a humanities course) - A
A freshman intro elective course (which was only 1 credit) - A-</p>
<p>Total college GPA so far- 3.9 </p>
<p>And for the record, my high school transcript wasn't bad, but wasn't great either (I don't remember the exact numbers, but I was in the lower-middlish in class ranking, shouldn't have been screwing around so much lol). And my SAT score was a 1690 (570 in math, 570 in reading, 550 in writing, 8 on essay)</p>
<p>The classes I'm taking this semester are English 2, Accounting 1 and Environmental Science (with lab) and I'm currently on track to get Bs or better in all of them (most likely As, though), and once I finish them I'll have earned a total 35 credits so far. For next semester, I'm planning on taking Accounting 2 and college algebra, and then I will transfer out.</p>
<p>So, all in all, what are my chances at getting accepted to Penn State UP and/or Syracuse as a transfer student if I keep my GPA around the 3.7-3.9 range through these next few classes? Plus, for penn state, for anyone who would know, would it even be possible to apply as a transfer to the main campus and be accepted as a division of undergraduate studies student (which basically means undecided). I've checked their website thoroughly (as well as Syracuse's) and the whole transferring process still seems a bit confusing to me lol. Anyways, I would love to know my chances for both schools, and thanks in advance!</p>
<p>The freshman seminar course most likely will not be transferable so your GPA would be a 4.0. However with PSU I believe you need to spend 2 years at another school before being eligible to University Park. Right now you would only be able to transfer to a branch campus and then the following year you would move on to UP</p>
<p>No clue about those schools but 3.7-3.9 GPA is very good and gives you a great chance at most big schools. Your class selection also looks very good. If you had calc instead of college alg on your transcript that’d be like the cherry on the sundae. The only real problem I see is the 35 units. You really need 60 units before transferring. Once you hit 60, you are applying as a JR transfer. Below 60 you are still competing with HS applicants.</p>
<p>To bomerr, I know, it sucks cuz my advisor screwed me over the first semester with my math courses (too much to get into now lol) so I have to start from college algebra and work my way up, and I also don’t mind the credit issue… I just want to get into a good college and work my way up from there, since it would mean a lot just to get accepted.</p>
<p>How does your college math system work? Do they have an appeals system? At my school you have 4 different placement tests. You aren’t allowed to repeat a test but if you took a lower level test, you are allowed to take the next higher up. I messed up on my math placement test and got into intermediate alg. Brushed up on my math with the placement test reviews sheet online and got into Calc as-is.</p>
<p>To bomerr, you only have to take a placements test if you didn’t pass the cutoff on the math SAT score (I got a 570, so I’ll get into college algebra, which I would like to take before I take business-calc)</p>
<p>From personal experience I wouldn’t recommend taking lower level math classes. Tons of people in our calc class struggled with arithmetic rules when learning to differentiate. Mind you they all passed pre-calc, which means they passed trig and of course college algebra. Myself included. It was doing the problems in calc that really sorted out our arithmetic mistakes. If you really want to seal the deal I would say learn calculus (I know some great resources) and place into calc 1.</p>
<p>To bomerr, literally the only class I’m fearing of failing is business calculus, I haven’t took a math course since my junior year of high school! (I know it sounds crazy… It’s just too complicated to explain lol) if there are any resources you know where I can possibly teach myself enough math to possibly get caught up to calculus level knowledge I would appreciate it greatly! But if it doesn’t, I probably will have to start from college algebra and work myself up from there. I’ve realized that literally all I need is to pass a business calc course to hopefully get into my school of choice.</p>
<p>I used this course to learn the basics of calc 1. It’s far better than the free stuff provided elsewhere (khan academy, patrickjmt, etc). Currently I’m breezing through my calc 1 class.</p>