<p>Great. AP scores are in and they are mediocre. Nothing below a 3 though. I hope AP scores is not an important factor in transfer admissions.</p>
<p>I’m not paying the extra fee to find out early, but I emailed my calc teacher and only got a 4 on ap calc BC, which is awful considering the majority in my class got a 5, I actually did rather well in the class, and I had a solid 5 on the last practice exam before the real one. </p>
<p>I doubt AP scores will matter as long as they were good enough to get you credit at the college you’ll be attending this fall. My 4 is enough to place me into multivariable next semester. good 'nuff. If they’re good enough to get you credit, you’ll be taking more advanced classes anyway and the grades on those along with the grades you had in high school will be a lot more relevant. For example, if you got a 3 on calc BC and that was enough to get you placed into calc 3 (wouldn’t have been enough at my college), you can still work hard to do well in calc 3, and if you do in fact do well, that score won’t be relevant since you can prove yourself with more advanced material.</p>
<p>College Attending: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
High School GPA: (/5) W- 5.45 UW - 4.94
Class Rank: 28/690
ACT: 30 SuperScore - 32
Major- Community Health
Dream College- USC, UCLA (no chance since I’m neither a resident of California nor did i attend a CCC)</p>
<p>Why do I want to transfer?
-USC, albeit it may not be in the best section of Los Angeles, certainly beats out being stuck in the cornfields and the boring ol Midwest
-USC has a similar major dealing with Health studies as UIUC
-Spent my senior year dreaming/hoping that I’d get into USC, getting rejected initially tore a hole inside me but I’m a pretty stubborn person that is determined to get into that school somehow, even if transferring is a “back-door” option</p>
<p>Is that a 4.94 unweighted on a 5.0 scale?</p>
<p>yep *10char</p>
<p>@iborpastan OK, thanks for the advice.
@Kish93 I think you’ll make it as long as you maintain a good college GPA and get involved.</p>
<p>Hi, I am a rising college student.
University that I will enter this summer: UIUC (College of Business)
High School GPA: 3.79 top 5-10%
SAT CR540/WR690/MATH800 CR sucks, so I will retake once in Oct. or Nov.
TOEFL iBT: top score 105 Reading29 Listening25 Speaking24 Writing27 (Yeah, I am an international student.)
AP Calculus BC 4 Chemistry 4 (I just list these for I get 14 credits before I enter college. )</p>
<p>Aim schools? I am not sure yet for still deleting schools from my list. I think Umich, NYU or UVA is good, but is it difficult? Also, I love Uchigo and Northwestern so much, but that is even harder!
I know chanllenges exist, just as chances.</p>
<p>Attending: Michigan State University
GPA: 3.52 (junior and senior gpa: 3.93)
ACT: 30 (E:32, M:32, R: 27, S:27)
Colleges I wish to transfer to: Georgetown, UMich, Penn, Berkeley, Cornell, and Columbia</p>
<p>Will probably be spending two years at state since my high school states were mediocre. Is it worthwhile to retake the ACT?</p>
<p>^ Well, I got a 29 on the ACTs and I am retaking them in September. 29 is probably the 15th to 25th percentile at those schools.</p>
<p>It turns out I am going in as a freshman with 26 credit hours.</p>
<p>26 credits sounds like you’re done a freshman year equivalent at most schools. I think I have about 35 college credits overall, but I’m not exactly sure. That’s just my personal estimate since when I met with my counselor I wasn’t given a formal number, but usually a semester of science or calc is 4 credits, while my humanities APs mostly dole out 3 credits each. I have college credits that extend to gen-ed requirements beyond just my freshman year. I even had college writing exempt for no other reason than my combined CR+WR SATs scores being over 1460, which was a nice surprise since most colleges don’t take AP English lit as college writing equivalent. However, I can’t replace calc based physics for physics majors, and my last minute self studied physics C mechanics score was only a 3 (Umass Amherst generally only takes 4s and 5s).</p>
<p>Really, I think we need to be wary of our difficult schedules next year. I know we think we’re all cool and awesome for being ahead of the game, but being truly competitive in most majors is still difficult.</p>
<p>I am only worried about my Waves, Optics and Modern Physics class, which is meant for 2nd year physics majors. But other than that, my classes are easy.</p>
<p>Hey guys.
I’ll be attending a University in the 50-somethings next year, studying International Relations. I want to transfer to Harvard, UChicago, Stanford, or Colombia. I might add more schools to the list, but it’s a all-or-nothing kind of thing. I took the ACTs once (didn’t take it seriously since I didn’t think I would do good. Consequently I did not prepare at all) and ended up with a 30.
I went to a private boarding school for high school (top 5 I believe) which was insanely competitive. I had a very very very high B+ (9.4, a 9.5 is an A-). I also began and completed 21 college apps in two weeks (winter break) - thus, my essays were crap. I believe that it is these two things that ruined me.
Oh, and I’m Asian. I don’t think that helps either.</p>
<p>Wait, is it recommended for transfer students to re-take the ACT? I was reading something somewhere that your grades in college are the most important thing, ACT/SAT scores don’t actually have that much weight because they are designed for high schoolers. Someone said that colleges take into consideration more seriously your scores from high school than those you received while in college.</p>
<p>^ Honesty, a score of 30 is good, but it is below the average of accepted students at the schools you listed. I do agree that college grades are the most important.</p>
<p>And also, you should start your essays now (the extracurricular essay and the why transfer essay)</p>
<p>Hold on, what’s the extracurricular essay? I thought the only essays were a) “Why transfer?” and b) college supplements…</p>
<p>There is a section where you write about your extracurricular activity, like in the freshman application.</p>
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<p>What extracurricular activities do you plan on being involved in at college?</p>
<p>I’m participating in…
Concert band
Mock Trial
Model UN
Research with a professor (hopefully)</p>
<p>Also, I will continue my internship with a political campaign.</p>
<p>Rising freshman</p>
<p>College I’ll be attending: Stetson University</p>
<p>ACT:32</p>
<p>SAT:1500</p>
<p>HS GPA: (3.9 before last semester of senior year lol) 3.2 </p>
<p>Transfer Colleges: Stanford, Yale, UPenn, Georgetown, George Washington, Berkley, Swarthmore, Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>Sent from my SGH-T989 using CC</p>
<p>Does anybody know how to do research with a professor? Do we just find a professor who does a subject we’re interested in and ask them? It’s something I’m super interested in doing, I just can’t figure out the proper protocol</p>