Chances for transfer to Berkeley, John Hopkins and a few more?

Transfer Students
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<p>I am freshmen in Community College. I want to transfer to a 4-year University for next year. I graduated HS at the end of junior year. The reason I am in a CC and the reason I graduated HS early is because I REALLY messed up my GPA in 10th grade (because of stupid decisions and some family issues) but I still wanted to go to a good University, so I went to CC first so they would not look at/care about my HS grades. </p>

<p>Academics</p>

<p>9th Grade
-GPA: 3.5 (WGPA:4.2)
-All honor classes no AP
-Did football, no other extras</p>

<p>10th Grade
- GPA: 2.6 (WGPA:3.4) (THIS IS WHERE I MESS UP)
- AP Government (The rest Honors)
- 4 on AP exam
- Programmer for Engineering Club</p>

<p>11th Grade
- GPA: 3.9 (WGPA: 4.8)
- AP Lang, AP World, AP Programming (The rest Honors)
- 5 on AP exam for Programming and World, 4 on AP exam for Lang
- Head Programmer of Engineering Club
- Part of Rho Kappa Social Studies Honor Society
- Got the Cisco COMPTIA A+ Certificate </p>

<p>Overall HS GPA: 3.3
Overall HS WGPA: 4.0
SAT: 2100 (Second Try)</p>

<p>Freshmen At Community College
- GPA: 4.0 (So far and staying this way)
- Part of Phi Theta Kappa (Honors Society)
- Worked as an intern at NIST with government engineers and programmers
- Programmer for Programming Club
- Planning to get the CompTIA Network+ certificate in Spring
- I have created an app for android and working on another</p>

<p>Other
- I am white, from a middle class family.
- I went to regular public school in Maryland
- I went to one of the best Community Colleges in my state (Which does not mean much)
- I did about 100 hours of public service.</p>

<p>These are the Universities I want to know my chances for. My top choice would be John Hopkins because it is in state. Any advice you might have would be great and thanks a lot for the help. (Out of state for all except John Hopkins)</p>

<p>Universities </p>

<ul>
<li>Johns Hopkins University</li>
<li>Georgia Institute of Technology</li>
<li>University of Michigan--Ann Arbor</li>
<li>University of California--San Diego </li>
<li>University of California--Berkeley</li>
<li>Dartmouth College</li>
</ul>

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<p>This is tricky because you only have one year @ CC. I know it’s not what you want to hear, but I think you would have much better chances if you stayed another year. As it stands, I think JHU is at least a low reach, D is a high reach, I could see you getting into UCSD, GT is probably a reach, UofM is probably a high match, Berkeley is a reach. You do have really impressive EC’s though, so you never know. Good luck!</p>

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<p>@NCXfer Yeah I know my chances would probably increase if I stayed but at the same time I want to get out of CC as quick as possible.</p>

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<p>I’m in the same position and I don’t blame you haha.</p>

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<p>You were a senior 2 days ago?</p>

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<p>However, this isn’t true for soph transfers.</p>

<p>BTW, the UCs don’t accept soph transfers.</p>

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<p>@entomom Thanks for the info. I thought Georgia Tech and Michigan were possible because of my improvement, SAT, and EC’s. Would staying another year significantly increase my chances for these colleges?</p>

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<p>Sorry, I think I edited and you x-posed, that happens sometimes.</p>

<p>While GT and UMichigan are in general not as selective as the colleges you listed, from your OP I assumed you are looking at engineering or CS, and both are top schools for these departments.</p>

<p>As a jr transfer, colleges will mainly look at what you’ve done in college, so if you keep up the good work you’ll be a much more competitive candidate.</p>

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<p>You’re stuck in a very odd situation being a Sophomore transfer. I would suggest putting high school behind you and taking one more year at a cc to transfer. Your chances will increase that way.</p>

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<p>Yes 1 more year would improve your chances greatly. </p>

<p>If you want to be a STRONG CC transfer you should apply as a junior level (60 units completed before transfer) student. You need to look at the schools you are applying to and attempt to knock out their General Education requirements along with the Math and English courses.</p>