<p>Stats</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 (transfer credits) 3.33 (Cumulitive)</p>
<p>Sat Scores : 2050</p>
<p>EC: Assistant at a neuropsychological testing lab
Student government President
Student Ambassador
Student intern at a psychological association for the homebound
Teen Court Attorney
SIT (Skating In The schools) assistant coach
Competitive figure skater (I will be going to regional this October)
Runway, and charity fashion shows (5 so far)
English tutor for college students.</p>
<p>I did a research assignment for my psychology class on human sexuality, and surveyed over a hundred people, plus wrote a thesis on it.</p>
<p>Volunteer: I have over 150 hours of volunteer service in a wide range of fields and environments.</p>
<p>Major: I plan to major in Clinical psychology or Behavioral Neuropsycholoy</p>
<p>High school: I went to a boarding school In India for a year and then I was home schooled for my junior high school. For high school I decided not to go. So I went to a local community college and took what they call the CPE (course placement exam) and stated taking lower level college courses and now that I am 16 and I will be getting my associates degree in Human Resources Spring 2006.</p>
<p>Schools:</p>
<p>Stanford Far Reach
Yale Far Reach
Cornell Far Reach</p>
<p>UCSB Possible Reach
UCLA Possible Reach
UCB Possible Reach</p>
<p>Indiana University Bloomington Match/Safety
UNM Match/Safety</p>
<p>UCSB, UCLA, UCB are not possible reaches for a transfer student unless you are going to a California Community College. READ the statistics. They accept only a FEW transfers that come from other places. In fact, you probably have a better chance at Cornell than the UCB or UCLA. UCSB is not going to be as tough but still...they pretty much ONLY accept California Community College students for transfer.
Brown, Yale and most of the other ivies accept very little transfer students. Stanford accepts a lot of transfer students but note that the average cummulative GPA for transfer students at Stanford and the average SAT are higher than yours. You have interesting EC's though.
Replace all of those UC's and those Ivies with some possible reaches. Maybe Emory? University of Southern California? Vanderbilt? Rochester?
There are plenty of good schools like these ones that I'd say you have a shot at. If you don't apply to some good matches you will be stuck going to UNM or something.</p>
<p>gotta get that GPA up.</p>
<p>I definitely agree with the advice to get your gpa up. A 3.33 cumulative gpa just isn't enough for your reach schools. Although Brown states that there is no official gpa cut off, most of the Ivy Leagues and Stanford state that a competitive gpa is a 3.5 or above. Since you have some pretty nice ECs, bringing your gpa up to a 3.5+ will substantially improve your chances. Bringing your SAT score up by 100 points may go a long way as well.</p>
<p>Even though it depends on the specific college within Cornell that you apply to, I'd say that of all your reach schools, you have the best shot at Cornell (purely by the numbers). From the looks of your list, I'd suggest throwing in UPenn (reach) and NYU (slight reach/match). Both schools accept a lot more transfers than Brown (Brown actually accepts more students than Stanford). UPenn also has a spectacular psych department.</p>
<p>Brown actually has a really good transfer rate, though I expect it to go down over the next few years because of their introduction of financial aid for transfers</p>