<p>I know that good AP scores may earn me credit, but will increase my transfer chances?</p>
<p>They would probably increase your transfer chances indirectly by letting you elect higher level courses your freshman year.</p>
<p>College I’ll be attending: New Mexico Tech
Major: Electrical Engineering + Computer Science</p>
<p>High School GPA:
W: 3.18
UW: 2.95</p>
<p>ACT: 32
E: 30
M: 34
R: 32
S: 30</p>
<p>Colleges I wish to transfer to: Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, UCs, U Penn, Vanderbilt, U of Washington at St Louis, RPI, Rose Hulman.</p>
<p>NMT is dirt cheap; it costs less than to go to a local community college. I’ll be paying a total of $865 out of pocket for tuition, housing and board. Sure, there are transportation costs and ect involved, but $150 a ticket to ABQ is not much. The good thing is I won’t have any loans. Even if I get off the waitlist of schools, I am going to NMT. </p>
<p>Intelligence is not my issue; work ethics is my issue. My study habits are shoddy at best. My main method of studying is reading over the text; it’s just that I rarely did it before this semester. I am a sponge for information; I just never fed it with school related stuff. For example, I should really be studying for AP Physics C right now… but I am here. Internet addiction has had its tole on my grades and study habits. But HEY! At least I am good at programming. My past experiences with actually studying have shown that I can easily ace school. Now, I will go back to studying…</p>
<p>^ Our high school stats are pretty similar…my UW is a bit higher. But your ACT score is higher than my by 3 points. I am quite the procrastinator as well.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>^Davidthefat, I applied to RPI and got waitlisted. I’m still waiting for the final rejection. Even if a miracle happens, chances are I’m still going to Umass Amherst, unless RPI decides to give me enough need based aid. However, I don’t think that’s likely.</p>
<p>I have a lot of friends in computer science and others who are interested in computer science, all of which are terrible internet addicts. I guess it’s an occupational hazard.</p>
<p>That’s an impressive ACT score considering your GPA by the way.</p>
<p>Tests were never an issue for me. I got tested into the gifted and talented program right after I lost my English learner status. However, I got kicked out of it at the end of 8th grade due to my horrendous grades. I mean I just saved my grade in Calculus by acing the final; which brought up my grade by 10%. Another story in Bio; I was the only person to get more than a 100% on the final, but that only brought me up to a B. That was often the pattern: slack off during the bulk of the semester and then ace the final. The unfortunate thing is that some teachers do not weigh the final as much as others, so I had a pretty terrible GPA. I’ve gotten all 4’s on my AP tests despite the fact that I never studied for them. This round of AP tests, I actually studied for. </p>
<p>In fact, I have noticed my habit in a lot of brilliant kids. They tend to be a little socially awkward and into computers. Despite their brilliance, they usually have mediocre grades. Their brilliance shines through in writing software or something related. </p>
<p>My friend, who will be going to MIT, put it this way: “David might not have the grades, but he knows his stuff.”</p>
<p>Never be satisfied with mediocrity; always strive for excellence.</p>
<p>“Never be satisfied with mediocrity; always strive for excellence”</p>
<p>That last statement says it all. </p>
<p>“socially awkward and into computers” - well that describes me. Well, I’m more old fashioned. I’m into physics and math, even though my grades last year in those particular subjects don’t reflect what I’ve done since then to improve my abilities in those areas. I’m a novice as a programmer. At best, I think I might have just gotten a 3 in the AP CS exam, but I’m new to programming and no amount of studying could have saved me (I studied a lot for that exam 
) . </p>
<p>And think people like you just live in their own world. I think I can see eye to eye on that. My peers tend to always act surprised when I tell them I’m not at the top of my class or that I’m not going to an Ivy league. Even my English teacher once remarked to my parents that the school system can’t grade someone like me. Apparently they see something in me that your MIT friend sees in you and that I frankly don’t see in myself. </p>
<p>So to go back to your last statement, the biggest change I’ve made is to strive to be consistent. Instead of caring about grades, it’s best to just sit down and do the work and not think more of it. </p>
<p>by the way, I’m taking the Physics C exam as well, but just mechanics. I thought taking both along with 4 other AP’s and college Chem 1 and 2 would be too much. I only had yesterday (studied all night), I have today (studied all day but just went back on the internet for a bit of a break), and tomorrow to take practice tests. I’ve been studying practically nonstop save for coming to this thread a yesterday and today. I feel great that I already know a lot of the material and the holes in my knowledge are filling at a remarkable pace. I signed up for that exam for fun and to knock off a semester of physics next year, YOLO!</p>
<p>College I’ll be attending: Georgetown (School of Foreign Service)
High School GPA: 3.89/4, 4.39/5
SAT: 2240 (2250 superscore), ACT: 32
Colleges I wish to transfer to: Harvard, Yale, Stanford (and maybe Penn or Brown)</p>
<p>Although Georgetown is apparently ranked first for my major (International Political Economy), it is incredibly career-focused (as opposed to research-focused). Because I want to go into academia, I feel that a research-focused school would be much more suitable for me. However, I’d still choose Georgetown over most schools. It also depends on how my freshman year goes (to see if I like Georgetown enough to stay)</p>
<p>HS gpa: 89 W
SAT: 1620/2400
SATs are low. should I retake them or will SATs not be counting much?
Going to Community College in NY. In Honors program.
Will get my associates in either accounting or paralegal studies. But, will get my bachelors in Accounting. If I get an associates in paralegal then change my major to accounting when I transfer, will that lower my chances of getting accepted???</p>
<p>Want to transfer to SUNY Binghamton, Villanova University, or University of Virginia. How are my chances if I get at least a 3.5 gpa in college?</p>
<p>^ You can probably make it to SUNY and Villanova, but UVA is more competitive. Your SAT score is probably at the 25th percentile at UVA so to increase your chances, I would retake them. Try the ACT’s.</p>
<p>College I’ll be attending: UCBerkeley
SAT: 2190
Colleges I wish to transfer to: Ivies, MIT, Stanfurd, Caltech, LACs which give aid to int’ls, Northwestern, Duke (still shortlisting)</p>
<p>Cal’s expensive!</p>
<p>^ Being accepted to a prestigious school may help slightly with your transfer, as it is an indicator of a good high school performance.</p>
<p>^^ very true. I’m afraid of what I’ll have to compete with while transferring. Basically are most of them going to be the type that should have been able to get in the first time around? Or is this just college confidential attracting the best and brightest to a particular thread as usual.</p>
<p>Take a look at Georgetown’s transfer student profile.
[Transfer</a> Student Profile - Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/transfer/studentprofile/]Transfer”>http://uadmissions.georgetown.edu/transfer/studentprofile/)
As you can see, their transfer applicants had relatively strong high school records.</p>
<p>It’s frustrating, because apparently sophomore transfers have better chances than juniors, but high school records are more important for sophomore transfer than they are for junior transfers.</p>
<p>You have to realize that Caltech takes about an equal amount of transfers from CCs and 4 year schools. It’s dependent on the schools you are applying to.</p>
<p>I found home! Hello fellow future-transfers! I too an member of the fail of a junior year club, new school and all that drama. I’m doing the IB diploma, so I’m grateful Grade 11 doesn’t matter so much. I didn’t get into any of the good universities I applied to, but honestly, I set my sights too high, whilst not working for my dreams. (i.e. Medicine at Oxford with predicted scores barely touching 36). Anyway, this year will be different, focusing on an entirely different continent. </p>
<p>I will be attending university of Toronto (Canada, obviously) this fall.
My SAT: 1820 (Terrible, I know, hoping to improve that)
College(s) I set my sights on: Columbia with NYU, and other Ivies in the background.</p>
<p>Anyone know if the rigor of college classes matter? Is it just based on GPA and if you fulfill their requirements?</p>
<p>Well that makes sense for junior transfers. I personally think that it’s too late to start somewhere new as a junior. </p>
<p>I hope though, that with the load of AP and dual enrollment credits I’ll hopefully be given I’ll be able to woo them by taking all sophomore except for college writing next year and doing well, which is definitely possible since I got momentum. </p>
<p>I found out I got an A- in my Umass chem II class. Not bad for second half of senior year :P</p>
<p>I think often the name and the description of the class indicates the rigor. e.g. Calculus I, vs. Multivariable calc. At least It has to make a difference. Especially if you’re taking a class like Orgo you’r freshman year, something that I seriously might end up doing.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking Waves and Optics and Quantum Mechanics freshman year for physics, which puts me on track for many different types of physics course Sophomore year. I’ll also take integral calculus and multivariable then diff equations sophomore year. The issue is squeezing in chem and bio without killing myself.</p>