<p>Do admin officers take into consideration the difficulty of your current school when evaluating your GPA. </p>
<p>I want to transfer to Brown. I go to Tulane now. I've had very challenging classes this semester and my GPA isn't very good (3.3 ish). </p>
<p>I mean I know Tulane isn't exactly MIT, but is it considered a school rigorous enough such that a 3.3 is good enough? </p>
<p>p.s. I'm a science major, and science and math are definitely the hardest classes here.</p>
<p>I do believe it does count, and I hope it does. I go to Georgetown, and I want to transfer to Penn. My GPA won't be nearly as high as I expected(so far I have an A- in general psych(i took this during a summer session last year), and I just got my modern astronomy grade, which is a B-, which pulled my 3.67 GPA(general psych alone) WAY down to around a 3.2. It'll probably end up around at most a 3.5. Astronomy was INSANE(if you really want to know, go to ratemyprofessors.com, go to georgetown university, and search for professor Matthews. sigh). </p>
<p>Of course, there is still the mid semester report that is due postmarked by the 31st of march. That is what I'll have to ride on most likely. Now, I know that Penn's average transfer GPA is about a 3.6, and that they usually are more "forgiving" for students at other rigorous schools(sigh, grade deflation, etc), and students in difficult programs. I think the mid semester report should help us(i think Brown asks for one too, doesn't it?) if we do extremely well. I guess it was just a wake up call for me on the rigors of college(first semester is usually the hardest), and I was more "relaxed" in my work. Now I know what I have to do. Sorry if i'm going on and on,lol, I guess I just needed to let it all out, b/c I was going out of my mind for the last few hours after I found out the grade.</p>
<p>I worked my booty off all semester. I knew it would be hard, I knew what was coming. I wad doing well at the midterm, but it all fell apart at the end. I bombed my math final and got a c+, which just about took everything down. </p>
<p>Good luck to you. I think Georgetown is very highly repsected and that will help you. I am applying to Penn also, but Brown is my first choice. </p>
<p>Out of curiosity, why would you like to leave Georgetown?</p>
<p>thanks. Well, Penn has a biological basis of behavior and health services management interschool minor that I want to do. At Gtown, you can take a few courses in another school(like the nursing and health studies school, or school of foreign services), but most are limited to ppl in that school. Penn has its One University belief, and I'd really like to take advantage of that. Also, Penn has an African studies department, and gtown doesn't, and I'm really interested in learning more about Africa, perhaps take an African language in addition to Spanish(this part is learning more about myself I guess). There are various other reasons(that I should be writing down,lol), but those are the most important.</p>
<p>Good luck to you too!</p>
<p>Haha, the BBB program is what I am interested at Penn also. I'm a neuroscience major, and BBB is similar. Penn also has ceramics and rugby (the thing Tulane lacks). I am, however, concerned about the size of Penn and I hear the student body is "snobby."</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>cool! I heard that BBB is really popular at Penn, esp. among pre-meds. </p>
<p>About the size, I don't think it's too large or too small. I personal want a somewhat larger school(Penn has around 9000 undergrads I think, while Gtown has slightly over 6000). The campus itself isn't huge, but it's not small. When I visited, I'd say it took around 15 minutes walking at a normal walking pace to get from one end to another. I don't think Penn is so large that you'll be a "number", at least in most cases.</p>
<p>About the "snobby" student body, well, I don't think it's snobby, but from what my friend tells me(she's a freshman in Wharton), it sounds really similar to Georgetown. That is, there is a good sized "preppy" population. So, some people might interpret this as snobby or elitist, but I don't really think that's the case. When I visited, her roommates were REALLY nice, and everyone I bumped into, etc. seemed nice. In general, I don't think Penn has a snobby student body.</p>
<p>Is NYU consider a "rigorous" or top-notch institution?</p>
<p>yeah, especially in the northeast.</p>
<p>Is Tulane considered a rigorous top not institution as well?</p>
<p>How much does the school you're coming from play into your chances of getting admitted to the school you'd love to be going to.</p>