Community College to Top College Transfer Chances

My high school performance was weak, mid 80s with a couple AP’s thrown in the mix. Decent SAT’s but not great. 570 reading, 610 Math. Did better senior year, 95 second semester, a 99.6 my last quarter of high school. Which is when I started applying myself. I go to a local Community College, I am going into my fourth semester. I have a 4.0 GPA through three semesters, I’ve also taken calc 1 and 2 at my community college to strengthen my course rigor. I am president of my schools investment club, containing 40 members. I am student senate treasurer. I am a Phi Theta Kappa member, I work as a marketing director for a real estate office agent, as well as a working at Banana Republic. I also ran cross country for my community college in the fall. Colleges I’m looking at: Cornell CALS AEM, Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern, Tufts University, Columbia University, RPI, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Buffalo, and UAlbany. I’d like to know my chances for these schools, as there isn’t a ton of transfer info. My school also has a transfer agreement with RPI and Cornel CALS. Thanks.

I think you have a good chance. You’ve spent enough time at the community college to prove you’ve improved vastly from high school (which they probably won’t pay as much attention to). A 4.0 through 3 semesters is great, congrats. Also, you have great ECs, All I can suggest is (if you have the time of course, you seem busy) is to do some community work maybe through the clubs you are in? Just a suggestion. I’m in a similar boat as you so I’ve been doing tons of research. I’m aiming for Northeastern or Boston University. So goodluck!

It is extremely more difficult to transfer to selective colleges than get in as a first-time freshman. Cal tech for example lists its transfer rates in the area of 5-6 students admitted out of 150 is plus transfer applicants. That is about 4%

I think you will get into UB for sure.