<p>Please tell me</p>
<p>Everything matters. </p>
<p>The strength of your current school isn’t a huge factor, but it will definitely affect how admissions officers look at your GPA.</p>
<p>Is your statement true because whenever I ask a school that question they say strength of school doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>transfers2010 is correct, it is one of many factors that is considered. Do you really think that colleges consider a 3.5 gpa from a CC and H the same??</p>
<p>i would imagine taking more classes aka overloading at an EASY school will help you by showing more commitment & discipline in making academics a priority. </p>
<p>but to answer your question, i think it does matter.</p>
<p>Let’s look at this from the perspective of human nature and psychology. Perhaps they will tell you they don’t look at your school, just like they tell you a whole bunch of other crap that are all flat out lies. </p>
<p>Assuming you’re the admission officer for transfers for a top 10 school, if you saw someone with a 3.8 from a top 20 school compared with someone with a 3.8 from a tier 4 school, with similar course difficulty and all, who will you automatically be more impressed by, despite whatever policies are written?</p>
<p>I hope you’re right. I am at a top 50 school, and it would be unfair for someone at a tier 4 school or community college with a slightly higher GPA get into a school over me. Strength of school has to matter because if I were an admissions officer, I would accept take the kid who worked his you know what off at a difficult college rather than a kid who obtained a 3.5 at an easy college.</p>
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<p>Please do not over read anything into the replies that were given to you. We all said that strength of the school was ONE factor among many. </p>
<p>p.s. fair is what I take my kids to in the summer.</p>
<p>I hope I’m not overstepping my bounds as a newb here, but the mention of Harvard vs as lower school made me think. . . . I think, to an extent, admissions officers would take grade inflation into consideration here, too. Speaking as someone who comes from Boston, Harvard is notorious for grade inflation. So, looking at a 3.5 from Harvard and a 3.5 from Boston College, chances are the student at BC worked harder.</p>
<p>However, the student who went to Harvard probably worked much harder in high school to get to the Ivy League. So take that into consideration. But then, why would the student who worked so hard in high school be pulling the same (or perhaps lower quality) grades as the student who didn’t work as hard? That tells me the student at BC is improving while the H student isn’t.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, I’m speaking strictly about Harvard here. I don’t know about grading at any other Ivy League schools and I’m not an admissions officer.</p>
<p>All I have to say is that the valedictorian who graduated from my CC this past spring went to Harvard. </p>
<p>Anything is possible.</p>
<p>^Hi Kelly, does the valedictorian have anything else specially strong except for academics?
Thank you!!</p>
<p>I also think that let’s say you’re trying to transfer from H to Y. Y is going to take someone from CC who shows just as much promise as the person from H, because the person from H has just as good of academic opportunity sitting in front of him at H as he would at Y. The CC student could benefit a lot more from the transfer.</p>
<p>H and Y are transposable to any 2 top 20 colleges I would imagine…</p>
<p>And RE entomom: lol, so true.</p>
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<p>Getting a 3.5 at Harvard is almost always harder than getting a 3.5 at Boston College.</p>
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<p>Correct. Don’t forget that although Harvard has significant grade inflation, a contributory reason is that the quality of a student that attends Harvard is much better than one that attends BC - higher work ethic, higher passion for learning. From what I know of BC’s culture it’s basically a school where the lazy children of the upper class get sent because they couldn’t get into better schools, with an outnumbered percentage of people there who go there because of its opportunities. Don’t forget that “grade inflation” may also simply mean the student body works a lot harder. If I cited that some random state school had an average GPA of 3.0, while say Cornell Engineering had an average GPA of 3.2, does that mean Cornell Engineering is grade inflated in comparison? No, it means the kids at that state school only drink and party all the time and don’t care for academics, and therefore have bad GPA’s.</p>
<p>Therefore, the 3.5 at Harvard is either superior or at least equal to the 3.5 at BC.</p>
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<p>Agree with transfers2010 & MK1, you need to consider the strength of the cohort. D1 attended UMichigan and transferred to Y, she was at the top of her class at UM, and more in the middle at Y. She’s a premed and she definitely thinks she would have gotten a higher science gpa a lot easier at UM.</p>
<p>any other transfer tips or advice?</p>
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<p>I think George Washington fits this description about 100x better than BC. Everyone here are pretty much rejects from the Ivies and Georgetown, including myself. Boston College has a much lower acceptance rate. While it might not quite be in the top 20, BC is a seriously good school. GWU is a perfect example of an overrated party school.</p>
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<p>I agree with Irishlad. this is true of BU as well, except many of them got rejected from the better MA schools (MIT, Tufts, Harvard, etc.)</p>
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<p>True point. BC may have some of that culture, but nonetheless is still a strong school. GWU on the other hand…once out of the Honors College, it’s just party-high-school 2.0.</p>
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<p>Eh the Elliott School of International Affairs is kinda tough. But even that’s a few pegs lower than what it advertises itself to be.</p>