Chances at transferring to these schools?

Transfer Students
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I just finished my first year of SUNY Community College and I thought it went pretty well. I will give you my stats and see where I lay a good chance.

HS GPA: 85% (We didn’t use a point scale)
SAT: 1410 out of 2400 (I have seen that SAT scores don’t matter for transferring so I probably wont retake)

I never did any APs but I was straight A's and B's in pretty much all my Math and Science courses

Through my first year of CC:
CC GPA: 3.3 (I plan on rising this to a 3.7-3.8)

Courses I have taken:
Trig/College Algebra (B)
Calc I (I taken this twice. I gotta D first semester and an A second semester)
Intro to Computer Science (A)
Programming and Logic I (B)
English Comp I & II (A’s in both)
Literature Into Film (C - This class kinda sucked)
Macroeconomics (B)
American History I (A)

Courses I plan on taking:
Calc II
Physics I & II
Programming and Logic II
C++ Programming

Business Ethics I

Extras:
I have a part time job where work about 20 hrs/week since my Senior year in HS
I am an administrator for a programming website where we help out other people with programming problems (Stack Overflow)
In HS I played in AAU basketball and HS basketball
I have served in community service. I served at a local retirement home and helped the elderly people. I also did church work where I served at a homeless shelter.

I assisted coach a local CYO basketball team from grades 1-5

List of Schools:
Drexel
RPI
Northeastern
Boston University
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Virginia Tech
Clark University (I think this can be a safety)
SUNY Albany (Safety)
SUNY IT (Safety)

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bummp

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Looks like a good list. Transferring into Cornell and Vanderbilt seem hopeless but worth a try if you want to.

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When I was looking at Boston U I noticed that unlike most schools, they require FIVE consecutive semesters there instead of four. And it’s expensive too. They also force you to test out of a lot of classes even if you aced them. Not very transfer friendly.

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@philbegas I did some more research and saw they weren’t really transfer friendly. Will take them off my list. Very expensive, not worth it.

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BTW I don’t know about using Clark as a safety. Their transfer acceptance rate is lower than you think. I had a 3.8 GPA in college while working full time and they rejected me.

In addition, do not assume sat scores don’t matter. For a lot of top institutions they DO.

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@philbegas what was your major?

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When I applied to Clark? It was economics, but they told me that the major on the application did not affect acceptance results.