<p>If your gpa is 2.9 something, how many applicants do you think there are under 3.0? Northeastern the transfer rate is 50% and 3.3 is the average for transfers, and they say 3.0 or higher is what they look for, do those under 3.0 get tossed right away? If 50% are rejected, are those small schools like cc who have hi gpas from bad schools, or are they people from decent schools with under 3.0 gpas? Anyone know?</p>
<p>No, I imagine they don’t get “tossed right away” - although there probably is a level at which they do this (2.0?), but I don’t know for sure. For 2.9’s, I would guess they’ll look at the entire application and the EC’s and make a decision at that point.</p>
<p>They say 2.0 is the minimum so you are probably right about that part. I just don’t know if I should try for it or not, which would mean I would have to take a few extra classes if I wanted to try to transfer and I haven’t gotten much advice here or anywhere. Is there a website where transfer profiles and where they were accepted exist? Any idea if a 2.9 with very good mid-term grades and good hs grades who will be a senior next fall (need a fifth year regardless) has a chance when the website says the most successful are 3.0 or higher? I have no idea what cc applicants inflate those gpas or not, or if a 3.7 cc gpa is better than a 2.95 from a good school.</p>
<p>are those small schools like cc who have hi gpas from bad schools</p>
<p>Getting a 4.0 is respectable even at community college. I went to Rose-Hulman, a “decent school”, but my girlfriend goes to a community college and, from what I could tell, some of her courses were harder than a few of mine in terms of being able to get an A. Rose profs are never out to flunk their students, but some CC profs make their classes hard…</p>
<p>I’d say almost no application gets tossed right away - they check you holistically and first see if you had some family crisis or something else to explain your GPA if the rest of your application is comparable to their other applicants.</p>
<p>Actually, it is possible to get into big schools like UCLA or even USC. I knew a math major who lied and cheated his way with a 2.87 GPA into USC, plus he’s also from an Asian background. He also transferred from Pasadena City College with that GPA as a one year transfer. Despite in his USC acceptance, all the UCs rejected him except for UCR and UCSC because it doesn’t even make sense for a failing math major to be a math major at all. I still don’t understand how it worked for USC but USC is different, especially for a math major. He hasn’t done a lot of things fantastic especially extracurriculars and and just sat on his couch everyday and adjusted and pimped up his $80,000 new car his dad got him this year on his birthday. </p>
<p>So to answer your question, yes… if this Korean friend of mine whose family makes $250,000 annually, spends it on a $80,000 vacation to Alaska and Singapore, four $3000 macbooks and is begging for financial aid because of their “interesting” spending habits, then yes it is possible for you to go to big schools such as USC. I kid you not. This guy even had a C in Calc I and a F in Calc II. USC still liked him. I don’t know how it works but the system is flunky. Even UCLA on their statistics page, they historically have admitted science majors as low as 2.85. If you take a look at the current webpage, 1 person was admitted as a computational biology major with that GPA. It’s amazing how things work…</p>
<p>Also, he noted that once you paid the deposit, your set. They can’t even rescind you. It’s shocking, really. But I guess it’s true.</p>
<p>how did he cheat his way in, do you mean he cheated and managed to get a 2.87? lol</p>