<p>St Johns University
CUNY- Hunter, Baruch, Lehman, Queens, Kingsborough Community College, & City College of New York
SUNY- Albany, Binghamton, New PAltz, Oneonta, & Oswego.</p>
<p>Race: White/Asian male.
Residency: NYC
Income: My mother's 15k-30k.
HS GPA: 3.0 with regents courses (failed two and passed them over the summer with over 70).
SAT: 1570 - 460 V, 500 M, 610 W / 1600 breakdown = 960/1600
Awards: Perfect Attendence Award since 9th grade.
ECs: Community service at Library for 67 hours, UFT for 12 hours, Secretary Position at Good Times Center afterschool for 100 hours (2 years), and Member of the international Key Club.
Letters of recommendation: Really Good.
Essay: Solid, personal experience about my shyness and how it changed me socially.</p>
<p>Also, can anyone chance me for any elite colleges that would be my shot if I go to any of these back up schools for a year and get a 3.85-4.0 GPA? Sorry, but if sophomore fall transfer will not work, I may have to settle for the Spring Soph. or Junior transfer.</p>
<p>I want to major in business after I get through my general ed. requirements first.</p>
<p>St Johns: not sure
Hunter: ehh match/reach
Baruch: match/reach
Albany: high reach
binghamton: very high reach
new paltz: high reach
oneonta: reach
oswego: match/low reach</p>
<p>Unless you qualify for EOP, then your chances may be different.
good luck!</p>
<p>What’s the difference between low reach/high reach?</p>
<p>Can you also answer my question on the bottom?</p>
<p>I’m not sure which “elite” colleges you are talking about exactly but I probably wouldn’t know much anyways. All I know is that most of the top colleges require HS transcript and SAT scores in addition to your college transcript for transferring. But if SUNY Geneseo is elite enough for you then I do happen to know that they don’t look at high school grades and SAT scores if you have over a certain amount of college credits already. </p>
<p>Oh and a low reach would be less of a reach than a high reach? Those were just my estimates and you should check out the college websites and collegeboard.com to see the numbers for GPA and SAT scores to give yourself a better estimate : )</p>
<p>I don’t want to go to SUNY Geneseo. It’s near sex offender town.</p>
<p>I’m trying to see if BC, Wake Forest, BU, or Villanova might even want me.
If I get denied to Binghamton, I could probably reapply as well.</p>
<p>L-O-L.
yeah good luck with that.
lol.
lol.</p>
<p>I might also look into Fordham. I might get lucky.</p>
<p>Do you know anything about the further of this extent?</p>
<p>Further of this extent? I do not understand what you are trying to say. I’m terribly sorry about this.</p>
<p>Im not looking into those top top schools. Im looking into decent top schools that I can get into and afford me a solid and competitive education. Why I picked BC, Wake Forest, Villanova, and Fordham is because I know other ones would def .reject me all the way.
So I was asking you what you would think of my approach from here.</p>
<p>if your eventual goal is to transfer out, then just go to the easiest school possible. you want high grades to get to the competitive school, and then you can focus on what you actually want to do. you have a cc on your list, so just go there. the classes will be easy and then you automatically have a reason to transfer (wanting a bachelors instead of associates).</p>
<p>^ I’m going to have to retake my SAT either way. I can’t go anywhere with those kind of scores.</p>
<p>I’m an optimist always, but you also have to be a little realistic. Your SAT’s are on the low side, your GPA is on the low side, and your EC’s do nothing to help you stand out. BC, Nova, Wake, are not going to happen as of now.</p>
<p>BUT, what you do have going for you is:</p>
<p>You seem to be HEOP eligible. This is great for schools like new paltz/bing/albany. If you get the SAT up perhaps even Fordham. Take the ACT! It worked for me a little</p>
<p>What are you, a junior? It’s gonna be hard to get EC’s up, but try to land an internship or something over the summer. Do something from here until when you apply that can help you stand out, and aim for HEOP schools in NY. Ithaca would be a good match, a lot of SUNY’s, Marist, and more.</p>
<p>No I’m a senior. I need to know chances are for those schools as a transfer student.</p>
<p>You need to build up your grades at CC and then transfer with credits and a good GPA.</p>
<p>I said I might go to a SUNY or maybe a CUNY… pace my tails off (not a CC)… and then transfer. My parents just told me to go to a CUNY for two years and then go to Columbia. </p>
<p>However, when I go into College, I will study harder for the GMAT than I did with the SAT for graduate school.</p>
<p>What I’m worried right now is whether transferring into an elite as a junior will affect my ability to make a group of friends for myself as a long time relationship and looking for girls. Does anybody have an agreement to this kind of late social idea?</p>
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<li>Columbia certainly is not a realistic goal for you</li>
<li> “Does anybody have an agreement to this kind of late social idea” is one of the most awkward and weirdly worded questions I have ever seen. You should probably work on your English before even thinking about “elite” colleges.</li>
<li>Most 4 year SUNY and even CUNY schools are actually quite selective, so you can’t really count on being accepted but they can be good reach schools for you.</li>
<li>Go to community college.</li>
<li>Aren’t you the same person who made a thread asking if the stamp on the application envelope for New Paltz has to go on the right hand side? </li>
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<p>These are basic things, man.</p>
<p>" Columbia certainly is not a realistic goal for you "</p>
<p>I wasn’t asking for your opinion. Why do you think other people have transferred into Harvard with a GED? I asked other people for advices, not yours. I haven’t seen you for the past couple of days so I thought you were done.</p>
<p>“You should probably work on your English before even thinking about “elite” colleges.”</p>
<p>You should not compete with me in native English speaking. I’ve been born here longer before you existed. If I was weak at such a language that Americans use every day, I wouldn’t be here. Why else would I be senstively more grammatical than you?</p>
<p>“Most 4 year SUNY and even CUNY schools are actually quite selective”</p>
<p>This is inadvertent. They are not selective based on the quality, but quantity (if that’s what you were thinking). It’s not great to come on here and see a ■■■■■ like you trash on other people just because a goal is “unrealstic” for you and you have to put other people down to make feel the same way as you. I’ve seen mediocre kids get into SUNYs and most of them into CUNYs. Community Colleges, Lehman, and York aren’t too difficult for some people like you. </p>
<p>“Go to community college.”
Why? Are you my lawyer? I can afford a better education than you can ever afford for a living. </p>
<p>"Aren’t you the same person who made a thread asking if the stamp on the application envelope for New Paltz has to go on the right hand side? "</p>
<p>No, why do you care? </p>
<p><em>Just going to ignore Turner92</em></p>
<p>" Columbia certainly is not a realistic goal for you "</p>
<p>@ Turner92: Please refer to this thread… [Transfer</a> Students Library](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/featuredthreads.php?forumid=485]Transfer”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/featuredthreads.php?forumid=485)</p>
<p>" Go to community college."
Only if he doesn’t get into most of those schools, then it’ll be one of his options left. But I think the applicant’s profile is a match for the CUNYs and SUNYs. I have no doubt that he won’t get in.</p>
<p>"I can afford a better education than you can ever afford for a living. "</p>
<p>What the heck?</p>
<p>And no I’m not actually just a ■■■■■ I’m a senior in high school just like you who looked at SUNYs a lot and chose one to go to next year.</p>
<p>“You should not compete with me in native English speaking. I’ve been born here longer before you existed. If I was weak at such a language that Americans use every day, I wouldn’t be here. Why else would I be senstively more grammatical than you?”</p>
<p>If English is not your first language then I apologize for my rude comment.</p>
<p>EDIT: Because the goal is not realistic for me? Oh yes it is very realistic actually my SAT scores and GPA are much higher than yours and I already got into most the SUNY colleges that you mentioned which is besides the point but you can not assume things like that at all and that comment was uncalled for.</p>
<p>“I’ve seen mediocre kids get into SUNYs and most of them into CUNYs. Community Colleges, Lehman, and York aren’t too difficult for some people like you.”</p>
<p>People like me? How can you assume this? Do tell me…</p>
<p>“If English is not your first language then I apologize for my rude comment.”</p>
<p>Turner92, if you cannot be satisfied with an individual only standing by for his rights of being on the forum to share his opinion and hear suggestions, then you should be the one who needs to stay away from here and not post on this thread. The applicant was only asking for his chances. Not an argument. I feel like this is becoming an unnecessary debate.</p>
<p>That comeback does NOT even make a “penny” sense at all.</p>
<p>My advice for you is to stop comparing yourself or anybody else to other people because you cannot expect everyone to be at the constant pace as one another. You sound like an arrogant loser who needs to bash on someone else in order to escape your own misery. HE86 should be telling you to go get a life.</p>
<p>I have a 3.8 GPA with honors/AP and 1950 SAT score and I was denied to some of the really good State Universities, but accepted to some top-notch universities.</p>
<p>I believe no matter where the applicant begins, a strong EC, letters of recommendation, and GPA will get him in a good position for transfer. Columbia and BC may be a reach for him, but doesn’t mean he has a gaurantee to not get in.</p>