<p>Went to prestigious private high school. GPA was a 3.3. Now I go to Wellesley College with a GPA of 3.2. Pretty good violinist, excellent essays and recommendations. </p>
<p>I did NOT apply for financial aid at any school. How does this increase my chances at:</p>
<p>Brown?</p>
<p>Cornell (Agriculture and Life Sciences)?</p>
<p>UPenn (Arts and Sciences)?</p>
<p>Vanderbilt (Engineering)?</p>
<p>Thank you! Will chance back :)</p>
<p>There’s no harm in giving those schools a shot…but you should wait a semester /yr raise ur GPA…everything else seems solid :)</p>
<p>If you don’t mind ne asking but why are you transferring from wellesley?:/</p>
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<p>We need more info in order to ‘chance’ you…but your GPA is low, even if it is a prestigious HS.</p>
<p>The college GPA does seem low. I’m not qualified to say you don’t have a chance, but I’ve been reading these boards for a while, and it seems that accepted applicants at all of those schools have GPA’s of about 3.7 or higher.</p>
<p>Also, does NOT applying for aid help your chances anywhere? I’d suppose it might make a difference at a non-need-blind school, but aren’t most good schools (except Harvard) need-blind?</p>
<p>Your GPA is way too low for Brown and UPenn.</p>
<p>Vanderbilt and Cornell are possible but still huge reaches. I’d need more info to provide a better assessment of your chances, but from what I know, I’d put your chances at around 10% for each school.</p>
<p>(Also, only Brown is need aware among the schools you’ve applied to. Even there, not applying for financial probably isn’t a huge factor.)</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was very very curious to see the replies on this question, because I am in a pretty identical situation and I feel like I don’t see it a lot. I went to a very competitive and prestigious high school, and then attended a top LAC (Amherst/Williams/Swarthmore) <—trying to be private… In high school my GPA was probably a 3.6. Some semesters up to a 3.7-3.8 and others down to a 3.4-3.5. (Our final GPAs were never actually recorded so I don’t know for sure). And at A/W/S I have a GPA of 3.2. I sent out transfer applications to five schools, and two of them were Brown and Northwestern (those were the most competitive schools I applied to).</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure that everyone’s right about this. I’m not sure. I for one know that I made the Deans List with my GPA of 3.5 my second semester, and that my school is just plain hard. I took several classes where there were only a 2-3 As given out in the entire class, and this is at a school full of really smart kids. (When people from my college apply to graduate school, their GPAs are adjusted – raised – by like .3 points or something just because most people’s GPAs do seem pretty low.) </p>
<p>While the rankings don’t really make sense in comparing LAC and larger universities, it’s safe to say that my school is comparable with all the schools where I’ve sent transfer applications, or ranked higher in some cases. But of course reading these boards I feel like I’ve been presumptuous with my applications. And yet it’s not like I’m looking to transfer because I want a more challenging school that stimulates me more (that’s the narrative that people with 4.0s from CCs and lower-tier schools might cultivate, but that’s not necessarily everyone’s story)… in my case I’m just looking to go to a larger, more urban campus environment. </p>
<p>But maybe y’all are right, and I should have tried to raise my GPA first. We’ll see! Does anyone have any input? Know from personal experience? (Is what I’m saying absolute bollocks??)</p>
<p>-E</p>
<p>I hope you’re right, because I’m also in a similar situation (top-tier midwestern liberal arts college with a first semester gpa of only about 3.45 and a second semester gpa that will hopefully be around 3.8).</p>
<p>All I’m saying is that I’ve followed past Northwestern transfer threads closely, and haven’t seen many people in our situation have much luck.</p>
<p>@transferapp11 - Same with Wellesley. We have “Grade Deflation”, which means that classes can have a maximum average of a B+. Even though I’m a freshman, most of my classes have juniors and seniors in them. Who do you think is going to get all of the A’s?</p>