Do I have a good shot considering I did bad in high school?

<p>Okay I did bad in high school. My gpa was a 2.05 and my SAT score was only a 1680.</p>

<p>I went to CUNY City Tech as a result and I turned my grades around. I've got 48 credits and my gpa is 3.91 including A's in Calc 1, 2, 3, Chemistry and Physics.</p>

<p>I studied hard for the SAT all over again and this time got a 2240: 750 M, 790 W and 700 R.</p>

<p>I joined the Math club here and am the treasurer.</p>

<p>I'm going for Mechanical Engineering. </p>

<p>I'm applying to Columbia, Brown, Cornell, NYU, Upenn, URoch and USouthCalifornia. Do I have a shot at any of these?</p>

<p>My fail safe is Stony Brook which is pretty much a guarantee.</p>

<p>THanks</p>

<p>P.S If you have any advice on how to improve my chances, that would be greatly appreciated.</p>

<p>Yeah you have a very good shot at all of those schools. Colleges overlook HS stuff if you have something like 30+ credits of college work completed. Good luck!</p>

<p>I think you have good chances to each of the schools on your list except the Ivies.</p>

<p>^ I wouldn’t say he has a bad chance at Ivies though. I mean they’re a crap shoot even with a 4.0. But Ivy league schools care about HS performance more than, for example, USC does. Cornell is the most transfer-friendly Ivy I have heard, so your chances there appear to be the highest.</p>

<p>Realistically even with a 3.91 college GPA I don’t think that he has much of a shot at the Ivies because he’s competing against other applicants with similar college-level academic accomplishments who, on top of those, have Ivy-level high school academic and extracurricular accomplishments. Unless he has something wildly spectacular in his ECs, I don’t think he’ll stand out in the transfer applicant pool.</p>