<p>Alright, based on these hypothetical grades for my freshman year:</p>
<p>Calculus 2 Honors: B
Chem 1: A
Chem 1Lab: A
English 103 Honors: A
Honors Colloqium: A
Chorus: A</p>
<p>GPA: 3.75</p>
<p>SAT: 720, 720, 720.
AP tests: 5 on APUSH, 5 on AP Calc AB.
SAT2's: 650 Math2 and 670 USH.</p>
<p>Next semester I'm continuing all these courses and adding my Bio, which completes the requirements for entrance to CALS, my school.</p>
<p>And as for extracirriculars, I'm in choir, the medical club, and I will have about 30 hours done at the University Medical Center.</p>
<p>I'm a pre-med freshman.</p>
<p>If I retake my SAT2's and do well, will that compensate for my "low" GPA?</p>
<p>Also, how do I get to know a counselor for the counselor rec? The U of Arizona is huge and very impersonal.</p>
<p>you can still take SAT IIs after you've enrolled in college? i don't think so...</p>
<p>going to a large school, potential transfer schools will understand if you don't have extremely personal recommendations, just notify your counselor of your intent to transfer and maybe bring him in a paper or two that you've written so he can become familiarized with your performance as a student, that's what i did.</p>
<p>Besides that, your chances at cornell look solid, a 3.75 is not a "low" GPA, the average transfer student to schools of cornell's caliber has ~3.7</p>
<p>Yeah, up to 2nd year college students can retake SAT 2's.</p>
<p>"you can still take SAT IIs after you've enrolled in college? i don't think so..."</p>
<p>Yes you can. However, if you have taken the SAT/SAT II tests while in high school, some colleges will only refer to your high school scores, while some will just refer to your highest score overall. In my case though, I'd not taken the SAT II tests but they were still required/recommended at many schools, so I was told to take them in college anyways. It's better to send in some sort of indicator of academic potential than to send in nothing at all because you've already started college.</p>