<p>Hi, I am currently a sophomore at a Virginia Community College. What are my chances of transferring to UVA, UPenn, Cornell, Columbia, Vanderbilt and VT?</p>
<p>Major: Electrical Engineering
College GPA: 3.89 after 3 semesters, currently have 4.0 for this semester at midterms</p>
<p>High School GPA: 3.95 Unweighted & 4.1 Weighted (#6 out of 350)</p>
<p>ECs (college): Multi-Cultural Club, math & cs tutor, volunteer @ church/community activities, local Ruritan Club, 3 Years WE as Web Designer at Ericsson before attending college, etc...
ECs (hs): Governor's School, Virginia Junior Academy of Science Award, National Honor Society, tutor, etc....</p>
<p>Recommendations: Recommendations from two of my professors at the CC. One holds a master's in Therodynamics Engineering and the other a doctorate in Math. Both think highly of me, which the recommendations reflect.</p>
<p>I have already applied, but would like to know my chances....</p>
<p>SATs?????????????????????</p>
<p>ACT was 26 (not very good, I know)... I don't think most colleges will consider my ACT score b/c I've been out of school for several years and will have approx. 75 credit hours when I transfer.</p>
<p>I heard from UMD yesterday and was accepted :-)</p>
<p>Why did you decide to go to a Virginia Community College (btw is it NOVA) i mean with that stats especially GPA?</p>
<p>I am guessing that you applied to those schools senior year, right? what were the decisions?</p>
<p>Actually, before I graduated HS I was offered a position with Ericsson developing web sites for their internal site controls and intranet. I worked their for four years before they moved to Texas and I decided not to transfer. So, I went back to college full time to finish my degree. I had approx. 35 credit hours from HS and classes I took while working, but did not have all the required courses to transfer into engineering program. So, for the past year I've been at CC completing those courses so that I could transfer.</p>
<p>"their" should be "there"</p>
<p>I'm at NRCC - near Blacksburg. That was the closest CC that offered the Math and Physics courses I needed.</p>
<p>Lets see....SATs don't matter....you come off as a VA resident....SOOO...don't go to VT if you get in (which you will)...shoot for UVa....you have a very very good chance of getting in...Vandys basicallyt eh same as UVa...Columbia might be a reach...UPenn might be a reach, Cornell...hmmm</p>
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<p>I think you have great chances at all of these schools especially because you are a non traditional applicant. Don't listen to nahrafsfa, if you don't get into Cornell, etc. go to Tech over UVa. The program is better, I got to UVa and I'm telling you that engineering here is not as good as Tech</p>
<p>I received acceptance from Vandy today....</p>
<p>Would you still pick Tech over UVA since I'm planning on law school??</p>
<p>If you're planning on going to law school then you might look at UVa a bit more because you will have a better range of liberal arts classes to take outside of the e-school to prepare you for the lsats and law school. But just based on engineering schools tech is better. UVa also has a great law school and students from UVa statistically have a very slight advantage in UVa law admissions.</p>
<p>engineering/ teaching - VT
liberal arts/natural sciences/economics and business - UVa</p>