Chance this non-traditional, urm, cc student

<p>Stats
4.0 GPA (40 credits by the time I apply, 60 credits overall by the time I transfer)</p>

<p>2.8 hs gpa 1440/2400 SAT</p>

<p>ECS
President of Phi Theta Kappa
President of Psychology Club (future major)
Senator in Student Government
Peer mentoring club (tutors underpriveleged students)</p>

<p>NYU
USC
GWU
U Miami
Emory
Vanderbilt
SUNY Binghamton, Geneseo
William and Mary
Pepperdine
Cornell
Brown
UNC-Chapel Hill
UVA
Columbia GS
UCLA
UCB
UCSB</p>

<p>Good chance at many of those universities; specifically GWU, UCB, UCSB, SUNY BG, and Pepperdine. Maybe even, NYU, U Miami, William & Mary, and Vanderbilt. Of course, the Ivies will be hard to matriculate into, no matter what your stats are, especially for transfer applicants. Apply to all, and keep up your phenomenal GPA.</p>

<p>Chances are, this is posted in a wrong section.</p>

<p>Hey, moderators, maybe, you could move some threads to the “Chance me” section out of the “Transfer Students” section ???</p>

<p>*** is up with you?</p>

<p>Comment #3 is for you ;)</p>

<p>But I did post this in the chance me section. And since you’re here, chance me :)</p>

<p>Transfer Chances threads can be posted in either the Transfer Students forum or the Chances forum. I personally think that you will get much better feedback here since very few posters on the general Chances forum have any knowledge of how transfer admissions works.</p>

<p>But you should be aware, that if fr Chances threads have relatively little validity (that would be my position), then transfer Chances threads have even less due to the much lower number of transfers, the lack of information about how various schools select transfers, and the even wider range of life experiences of transfers.</p>

<p>Are you from California?</p>

<p>Nope. I’m from NYC. Why do you think I shouldn’t even bother applying to the UCs?</p>

<p>It’s funny that you even mentioned UCSB when you have some ivy leagues in there?</p>

<p>Regardless, I’m in the same boat as you, in regards to I have a 4.0 from a community college here in California and am going to shoot for some of the schools you just mentioned. You have a little bit more ec’s than I do, so I think things look good for you :slight_smile: why not just try stanford, princeton, or yale while you’re at it?</p>

<p>Princeton doesn’t accept transfers. Yale isn’t very cc student friendly. Stanford’s acceptance rate is even lower than Yale’s. However, they do tend to save a few aceptance spots exclusively for community college students. But then again, my HS gpa and SAT scores are abysmal, so I have to be realistic. Brown and Cornell don’t require SAT scores and Columbia GS is MUCH easier to get into than CC or SEAS.</p>

<p>PS- As an Out-of-Stater, do you think I have any shot at the UCs?</p>

<p>OOS transfers to the UCs, particularly UCB & UCLA are extremely difficult. And even more important question, are you able to pay 45k/yr COA if you get in?</p>

<p>OH CRAP, I haven’t thought of that! I may not even bother applying. I’m sure financial aid for OOS is atrocious :(</p>

<p>With a 4.0 I think you’ll get in to all the UCs. Many people say that it’s very difficult for OOS students, but looking at the actual StatFinder data shows that admitted out of staters have barely higher admission statistics than in-states students. With the economy the way it is now in California, they’d love your tuition money too.</p>

<p>Yeah, but I doubt I’ll get much FA from them.</p>

<p>Yes, that’s correct. I’ve found that most of the out of state students I knew at UCs were pretty well off.</p>

<p>When my D was accepted OOS as a fr, they gave us 45k…in loans ;).</p>

<p>Oh well, at least I’ll be saving money and time. Anybody know which other schools on my list don’t offer generous FA?</p>