<p>The SAT is your weak spot. It’s simply too low. Your grades in college are good, but your courseload is what makes the difference. If you’re taking underwater basket weaving, for example, you’re SOL. If you’re taking calcII and physics and chem… then you’re better off.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for replying, automobile!!</p>
<p>I know my SAT is my low point…but at this point, I’m not about to take it again. I guess I was under the impression that the SAT is much less relevant for transfer students. I figure my grades will do the talking when it comes to my ability to do well in college level courses…but we’ll see about that, I guess</p>
<p>As for courseload, I have mainly taken General Education requirements. I took Statistics and Chemistry, and three 300 level language courses. Besides that, it’s just been the basic, required freshmen courses.</p>
<p>Keep up your grades. You’ll have a chance if you do. Make sure you spend time on your application. Don’t rush it. If you want to get into UVa, show it. That’s the best advice I can give you.</p>
<p>I think you will have a much better shot trying for transfer admissions for the Fall semester. Spring transfer admissions is usually more selective than regular first-year or Fall transfer admissions. (For example: in Spring 2006 – when I applied for Spring transfer – there were over 300 applications and something like 30 people were offered a spot).</p>
<p>wahoogrl08, you bring up a really good point. The only thing is, it is too late to apply for this Fall, obviously…and I didn’t want to wait a whole year to apply. Then I’d most likely have to stay at least an extra year in school to make up for it</p>
<p>You can certainly apply, but I would not make any concrete plans to move to C’ville just yet. You could always take some time off between applying for the Fall? When I applied for the Spring (and was denied) I took a semester off and rolled my application into the Fall application round. I knew I didn’t want to continue at my home school, so for me it was a good decision to wait and not earn any more credits that wouldn’t transfer.</p>
<p>You might as well try for a spring transfer…I am pretty sure if you happen to get denied you can ask them to roll the application into the fall semester pool. Just keep up your college gpa and stay involved in something. I would stress the critical nature of the essays, parts of my application were weak and I think the essays were what put me over the top. The key to those are avoiding hackneyed phrases and using creativity.</p>
<p>I would say you have a pretty good chance at a Spring transfer! Your grades are very good and you’re an in-state student. I wouldn’t say it is a guaranteed thing, but it would be worth the risk IMHO! I would agree that the SAT doesn’t play a big role when transferring, so I wouldn’t sweat it.</p>
<p>I do have a question for you: how are you working (or plan to work) the transfer with ROTC?</p>