<p>Hi all- I've been lurking here for years, but as I've recently started thinking about transferring from my current college I figured I might as well post for the first time.</p>
<p>HS GPA: Didn't go to a school that weighted, probably somewhere around an A-/3.7 (extremely competitive NY private)
SAT 2230 (700M 760V 770W)
SATIIs: Lit 740, Bio-E 760
AP Bio 5
AP Psych 5
AP Calc AB 3
[very very low AP Physics scores]
The first time around, I was rejected by Columbia, Chicago, Haverford, and Swarthmore, and all that meant that I now attend Vassar (got into McGill, Tufts, Colgate, Hamilton, Rutgers Honors). I was looking at schools with sizable populations, and so far I've come up with a list of:</p>
<p>NYU Gallatin
Penn
Pomona
Stanford
Brown</p>
<p>My college GPA is 3.72 after two semesters: 3 As, 4 A-, 1 B. I'm a psychology major. I don't know that I showed significant improvement between HS and college, but I've not been satisfied with my classes or the administration at Vassar and am hoping to figure out how to get somewhere I'd be happier and less stymied by my inability to fit classes into my schedule.</p>
<p>Good shot at all of the aforementioned though I don't think you'll get into Stanford with under a 3.8 from anywhere. Should be in at Gallatin and probably in at Penn. Brown is a toss up as is Pomona, but you have the stats for any of those schools.</p>
<p>Oh, I know Stanford is a big reach, but I never applied in HS and I've always wanted to know for certain as opposed to just assuming.</p>
<p>Stuff I forgot to mention first time around: I'm minoring in math and I'm premed. Gallatin is my ideal (and Brown second to that) because Vassar has consistently crossregistered classes I need for my major, my minor, and premed and has failed to offer some requirements for my major in the last couple of years, so planning my next couple of years a few months ago I discovered that there's a very real possibility that I might not be able to graduate in four years. I also find the size of the school vaguely oppressive (hence the move to a larger school). I have a bunch of ECs from HS and from college (I worked at a lab in Columbia all of this summer doing research) as well, so hopefully that will mitigate the fact that I am East Asian and therefore not much of a minority.</p>