<p>I'm a hopeful sophomore transfer but I was wondering how much weight your high school grades go in when they're evaluating you. I'm sure your college GPA has most input, but since they do ask for your high school grades, if I don't have stellar high school grades, would that hurt me?</p>
<p>yes, high school grades are a huge part of sophomore transfer admissions and can hurt</p>
<p>If you apply as a transfer in your freshman year, your HS grades will count. The further along you are the less (A LOT less) it will matter. </p>
<p>If you're doing great good, I'm sure it'll supercede your HS grades (Shows you have potential and using it).</p>
<p>no, good college grades do not supercede HS grades, especially after only 1 term.</p>
<p>I'm applying after two years of college and some people say some and other say not one bit.</p>
<p>The general consensus is that sophomore transfer decisions weight HS grades much more than junior transfer decisions.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for your replies. I didn't get in Dartmouth as a freshman applicant and I thought I'd really regret it later on if I didn't attend there. I'm around top 5% of competitive public school, class rank around 16/350 and 4.37 unweighted. Considering I'd have a high Undergrad GPA, would my high school record hurt me?</p>
<p>Hurt you? That is a dramatization. You are perfectly fine.</p>
<p>"4.37 unweighted"</p>
<p>what scale is that on?</p>
<p>doesnt seem to count as a junior transfer.... at least at UC.. they dont even require a high school transcript. but i can see why they would want high school grades as a soph transfer. there are some schools that still care i think such as USC which requires both high school and college transcripts even for junior transfers</p>
<p>brpstn, maybe you're misunderstanding. But college grades do supercede HS grades no matter what. Think about it, you're applying to college, would colleges use HS grades or college grades to gauge your academics? Yes they would use both, but think...which one would be more reflective of COLLEGE performance?</p>
<p>Oh and the fact that some schools don't even require HS grades, that kinda tells you that they aren't really relied upon heavily, if any at all.</p>
<p>kkl230,</p>
<p>brpstn is somewhat correct; in fact, that is why I was rejected from Rice.</p>
<p>When did you apply? And I didn't say HS grades don't count. They do, to an extent, depending on your college standings.</p>
<p>I applied after exactly one term of college.</p>
<p>I agree with kkl230 here, HS grades in freshman admissions are usually served as an indicator of applicants' academic potential and whether they are capable of managing college workload. If one already has good college grades, I would doubt HS grades would matter as much (though there are always exceptions depending on the school) to adcoms in terms of considering whether the applicant is qualified academically. This is especially true the longer the applicant has been in college by the time of application. I would say the importance of HS grades probably decreases exponentionally over time.</p>
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This is especially true the longer the applicant has been in college by the time of application.
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<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>There is one problem: the minimum hours to apply for Rice transfer is 9. It is assumed that if one is going to apply for transfer with merely nine hours, a strong high school transcript is necessitated. If the high school transcript is atrocious, applying as a junior transfer is prudent.</p>
<p>I am not fabricating this information; I spoke to two admissions officers at Rice and both cited the same reason: that my college record was not extensive enough. I completed 23 hours when I applied.</p>
<p>Did you apply with nine hours? No, but you did have 23 hours, after ONE semester. I doubt people would apply with the bare minimums given the competition and such. And if they do, they could very well be nontraditional students. </p>
<p>And of course Rice would say that your college record is not extensive enough, you applied after ONE semester of college. And like I said, the further away you are from HS, the less it will count.</p>
<p>OH yeh, and don't forget that the original poster is a potential SOPHMORE applicant.</p>
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And of course Rice would say that your college record is not extensive enough, you applied after ONE semester of college. And like I said, the further away you are from HS, the less it will count.
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<p>Yes, but...</p>
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yes, high school grades are a huge part of sophomore transfer admissions and can hurt
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<p>Which means you are only going to apply after one term of school, yet...</p>
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brpstn, maybe you're misunderstanding.
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<p>No, I do not think he is, and I am empirical proof of that.</p>
<p>okay, for all those that say college grades supercede HS grades in xfer admissions, they don't (at least only after 1 term). I speak from experience, not speculation</p>