<p>Ok first a little background. I consider myself a pretty bright individual, however, I definitely slacked off for the majority of my high school career and ended up settling for UNT for college. Within the last few months though I have realized that I don't want to only do mediocre things through my life and actually want to go somewhere. My current goal long term is to get into a good med school, but currently my biggest goal is to transfer into a great undergraduate college. </p>
<p>Right now my #1 school of choice would be Rice, and i'm checking with you guys too see if I have a shot. Since I am only a freshmen this year, much of this will be hypothetical, but currently I am certain that I can and will achieve these goals. Now my high school background is not that impressive. I only had a 3.0 gpa (pretty good high school though), top 20 percent, and got a 1290 (converted to old version score) on the SAT. Despite all of that, do I have a chance of getting in to Rice if I maintain a 4.0 GPA, honors program, volunteer at the local hospital, and be a part of a club or two as well as intermural sports, etc. </p>
<p>Does anyone from UNT, no matter how well you do, have a chance of transfering? Also, what would be any other things that you would reccommend me to do to bring up my chances of getting in? I'm considering retaking the SAT's and doing some studying to bring it up to 1350-1400ish, will that make a big difference? Thanks.</p>
<p>You probably don't have that great a shot, since tranferring after your freshman year depends a lot on high school. But if you do really really well in college for a year, it is possible. Give it a try, but don't count on it.</p>
<p>Retaking the SAT's would help. But do people take SAT's after college starts? I wouldn't want to haha.</p>
<p>Ok thanks a lot for the response. Does the college take considerably less consideration about high school if you're transferring after your second year? Also, do you know of anything that I could do that could really catch their attention and stand out from all of the other people? Volunteering at a hospital I know is something great to do, but it seems like a huge number of great applicants are also doing that so it's really nothing that special.</p>
<p>I'd say mainly get good grades. Maybe join some clubs. Actually one of the best things would be make a good relationship with a professor for a good recommendation.</p>
<p>Tranferring after your second year lets you hide high school further in the past and let college be a more significant part of you. So they care a lot more about college after the 2nd year.</p>
<p>I think Rice takes very few transfers that will be juniors or seniors, because they feel that there's not much of a chance for them to become part of the community of Rice. Typically, Rice accepts a few transfers from community collges, so I don't see why they wouldn't accept an outstanding transfer from UNT.</p>