Extremely low gpa, decent in HS. Where can I even get in??

Transfer Students
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<p>Good day,</p>

<p>In high school my GPA was about 3.8 and I did AP calc (5), macro and micro economics (4) and physics (4) and ACT of 29. and I was near the top of my class academically. My EC's are swimming team, top international sailor, bunch of business competitions and investment challenges and volunteering doing various different things.. basically my ECs are pretty solid. </p>

<p>Currently I go to the University of Waterloo up here in Canada and am in the math program. I am in my 2nd year and realize I don't want to do all of this math and its really just not my passion and I think my grades are suffering due to this. I really want to be in business school (in hindsight should have picked it out of HS). I did get into BU and BC out of HS but obviously my current GPA puts those way out of reach. </p>

<p>Is there any decent school I could possibly get into? or am I basically screwed and stuck here</p>

<p>price doesn't matter</p>

<p>I am an international student</p>

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<p>Tear up your transcript and start over. Pretend u never went to University of Waterloo. Just tell the next admissions committee that you took a couple of years off to sail around the world or something. </p>

<p>You want to go into business? Here’s lesson one: Thinking out-of-the-box,</p>

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<p>In golf they call it a “mulligan”</p>

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<p>I am not suppose to hide my transcripts though right? is there anyway to actually get them vanished ?</p>

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<p>No, your transcripts can’t be swept under a rug. Tortoises post should actually be removed, even though it hints at sarcasm. </p>

<p>My advice: do another year at the University of Waterloo, but in business. Get a good GPA in year two and try to transfer.</p>

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<p>Why can’t they be “swept under the rug”? Says who? Is there a law?</p>

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<p>how would US schools find out about my past Canadian school history?</p>

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<p>They wouldn’t…unless you told them.</p>

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<p>It’s true, they will only know what you tell them.</p>

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<p>is the national clearing house thing not in canada? </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/656912-transfer-another-college-not-provide-previous-schools-transcript.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/transfer-students/656912-transfer-another-college-not-provide-previous-schools-transcript.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>was reading that, seems most say they can find out but that was transferring within the USA</p>

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<p>Why not just give it a shot? Heck all they can do is cancel your application, or your degree if you make it that far :).</p>

<p>Of course the yahoos that gave you the advice don’t have to worry, only you do, because you signed your application verifying that all of the information you gave was accurate.</p>

<p>Feeling lucky ;)?</p>

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<p>Yes and this is not a question of “academic honesty.” We’re not talking about plagiarism, or cheating on a test. We’re talking about a monopolistic academic cabal that’s arrogated to itself the right to know where you’ve spent each month of your life since the 9th grade. </p>

<p>The cabal doesn’t have that right. Tell them what you want them to know, nothing more, nothing less.</p>

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<p>Oh and I’d love to know of a SINGLE example wherein a degree was rescinded because of an application omission of this sort.</p>

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<p>soo… can American schools find out about Canadian records?</p>

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<p>Sorry you misunderstood, I was addressing the OP, not you tortoise. But that’s OK, you obviously need something to rage about, carry on.</p>

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<p>Entomom, why are you allowing tortoise to post this? He is manipulating the OP into omitting crucial information from his applications.</p>

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<p>econ, </p>

<p>But that I could delete/edit things that I disagree with, think are not right, etc., but that’s not covered in the TOS. </p>

<p>The OP is at least 18 years old, definitely old enough to understand the circumstances of signing a document that is not true. They’re coming here looking for a rationalization to do this and to try to find out if they can get away with it. Personally, I have very little sympathy, and a fair amount of contempt for their little endeavor. I’ve put my 2 cents worth in, and I assure you, I won’t lose a wink of sleep over this one. Some people just have to learn the hard way, even though they know and have been told the difference between right and wrong.</p>

<p>If you care so much about the OP, then present the case against their plan, but don’t harp on me for shirking my responsibility.</p>

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<p>entomom, i’m capable of advocating my opinion without name-calling or snarky mischaracterizations. it is too much to ask the same of a “super moderator”?</p>

<p>econ981, I don’t believe I’m manipulating anyone, and it’s certainly not my intent. But I would like to know why you believe the educational-industrial complex is entitled to know where you have been for each and every month of your life since first semester of ninth grade…</p>

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<p>Oh my, I just can’t please anyone tonight :(.</p>

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<p>After reading this post I am really nervous now. I enrolled in a CC right after high school and went for like less than a month (2002). I moved on with my life joined the military (was medically retired for an injury received while serving), and when I got out about a year ago, I used my GI Bill to go to school. I did not put the information because I genuinely believed I never actually went to school. Now I feel like all my hard work is going to be thrown in the trash because I didnt mention a month of my life 10 years ago.</p>