<p>I am trying to transfer to BU next year. I am a freshman at Fordham University in New York City. My first semester GPA was a 3.3, but I was taking pre-med courses (at Fordham the average first semester GPA for pre-med students is a 2.5). This semester I am not doing premed and have a 3.7. I suppose I’ll just list the stats.</p>
<p>-Male
-Cum GPA: 3.5 (that’s what it will come out to be at the end of this semester, maybe even higher, and I am sending BU a copy of my mid-semester grades)
-HS GPA: 3.3 (senior year was a 3.9 in 5 AP Classes)
-4’s and above on over 8 AP Tests
-I was accepted to BU as a Freshman, but choose to go to Fordham instead.
-27 ACT
-ECs: Huge amounts. Everything from Vice President of Senior class to Violinist to Varsity Lacrosse.
-Recs: Amazing, my teachers loved me.
-Essays: From what people have told me my essays are very good. I’m a pretty good writer. But you never know, depends upon the reader I suppose. </p>
<p>I don’t know whether or not having been already accepted helps or hurts. In the sense that maybe they won’t take me because I rejected them, or that they will because they already let me in once. I don’t know, any information or insight would be helpful.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>If you were accepted once, they'll likely accept you twice and you've been doing fine.</p>
<p>Just curious...why did you choose Fordham over BU in the first place?</p>
<p>I had wanted to live in New York City. But now after having lived there for 8 months, I hate it. Visiting New York City is great, but I could never live there. The appeal of it is very very strong, but once I got there I couldn't wait to get out. I feel as if Boston, though like New York City in that it is a large city, is a much better place to be than NYC. Boston seems less 'in your face' than New York City.</p>
<p>Are you in the Bronx or Lincoln Center? The main campus is pretty and all but it's a light year from Lincoln Center.</p>
<p>I'm in the Bronx campus. They are vastly different, you're right. That is another issue I have. The Lincoln Center campus takes up all the arts, so in the Bronx we are left with practically nothing. All the performing arts venues (the orchestra, theatre groups, etc.) are crap in the Bronx, and they won't let you cross over at all. It's very odd, they should learn to consolidate or at least allow for some type of healthy interchange between the two campuses. The Bronx is actually not that bad, but not a place I want to live...ever.</p>
<p>I understand. It ain't Manhatten.</p>