<p>I currently attend a 4-year university in my home state. However, I am looking to transfer to the University of Alabama as an out-of-state transfer. I will be a Junior w/ 72 hours at the end of this semester, so even though my high school GPA was a 4.00 unweighted and I had a 34 ACT, none of that matters. </p>
<p>The minimum GPA for a transfer student to UA is 2.00, quite low. However, their acceptance rate for new students is only 51%, so it must be mildly selective, right?</p>
<p>My current GPA is 2.37, but it is looking like it will be 2.75 at the end of the semester. I was going to wait until the end of the semester and submit my transcript when grades were in and my GPA was improved; however, I asked the transfer counselor at UA for advice and she just kept telling me to submit as soon as possible, she never said whether it would be best to wait or not. So, I submitted my current transcript, and it will be arriving soon. I'm curious, if I mad a mistake. Are they just going to see my 2.37 GPA and flat out reject me? What is the most likely scenario?</p>
<p>Another question, will the Spring mid-term grades show up on the transcript? I am really hoping not, as they are quite misleading. I'm taking 14 hours, but only two of my teachers even posted mid term grades. Furthermore, one of them just transferred the grade from Canvas without checking the individual grades for my midterm, and it showed up as an E! Yes, it was an E at that time, but only because she had neglected to enter more grades. I actually have a 97/A in that class.</p>
<p>Most publics have rolling admissions, they continually take students until all the seats are full, that’s likely why the UA counselor told you to apply sooner rather than later. If you are trying to improve your record, there’s a tradeoff between applying earlier with a lower gpa and waiting to get spring grades to bring up your gpa but when less seats are available. It’s one of those questions that’s very difficult to determine which is the best to do.</p>
<p>College transcripts only show final semester grades.</p>
<p>Transcripts never show mid-quarter grades, only final semester ones. So your Fall 2013 grades would be most current grades on your transcript.</p>
<p>If you do not mind me asking, why do you have such a difference in high school grades and college grades? It would be hard to imagine someone with an unweighted 4.0 and 34 ACT to have such college scores. And it cannot be the professors.</p>
<p>@Hatsukoi It’s unreasonable to judge someone’s current college performance alongside their high school performance. Plenty of people who performed perfectly in High School don’t end up 4.0 students in college. There are any number of factors attributable to this, such as the distractions of freshman year, newfound unrestricted freedom, stronger and larger competition etc. Often, the student can’t be directly faulted.</p>
<p>The OP didn’t mention what school he went to, but do you think there aren’t any 2.37 GPA students at Cornell or Berkeley? Schools like these accept the strongest High School applicants with stats like 4.0 u/w and 34 ACTs, but maybe half the students end up below a 3.0 after their first two semesters of college courses.</p>
<p>Hi Hatsukoi, there are several reasons for the large difference. I did fine my freshman year, but encountered issues later. I quickly discovered I did not like the University I chose, and, as a result, I often felt depressed. I only chose the university because it was affordable to me, big mistake. One semester I was set to take all classes on campus, but I had to move home and travel was not feasible, so I failed all classes (I couldn’t withdraw because I really could not afford to immediately pay back the school for the loans they would retract if I withdrew form all classes). That really made my GPA take a dive.</p>
<p>Anyway, things have changed and I am now financially able to go to another university, even as an out of state student. I’ve been working hard the current and past semester to improve my GPA to do so. </p>
<p>FWIW, my GPA if you only consider courses that I actually completed, meaning those that I didn’t just take an E for by not finishing instead of withdrawing, my GPA is around a 3.80-3.90. The classes/professors have been no issue.</p>