For everyone who graduated with a ~2.3 academic highschool GPA

Transfer Students
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<p>Anything's possible ;) College GPA is golden.</p>

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<p>Anyone have me beat w/ a lower GPA or more failed classes coming out of HS? (2.3 and one E)?</p>

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<p>Oddly enough, I have the exact same HS GPA as you:)</p>

<p>Coincidence or sign? You decide.</p>

<p>Your post, however, gives me renewed confidence.</p>

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<p>My unweighted GPA was lower than a 2.3 ;-)
A year after that, I got into CAL :-D</p>

<p>btw maize i can't make out that pic, but I'm guessin it's Brown letter?</p>

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<p>yea, it's a Brown acceptance packet.</p>

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<p>Wow, that is so awesome, congrats!</p>

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<p>Quick question Maize...how'd you get into UMich with a 2.3?</p>

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<p>Summer and first semester at a less selective satellite campus.</p>

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<p>Congrats, Maize!
I had a 2.1 HS GPA and I got into Penn, Georgetown, Hopkins, and last week....YALE! I had everything set up to go to Penn (housing, etc.), but with the Yale acceptance, I'm not sure now (I really wasn't expecting to get into Yale)</p>

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<p>I was wondering something. If I got a 2.8 unweighted HS GPA and an 1140 SAT the only time I took it, would I have to get a 4.0 to get into a school such as Yale? If it matters, my high school GPA had an extreme upward trend to it. The first two yearsI did horribly, but the last two years I did great. My senior year I got around a 3.8. Thanks for all of your input.</p>

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<p>You need to improve your SAT score.</p>

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<p>What would be a good SAT score under the new test for me? I know nothing about the new one. Thanks.</p>

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<p>I do not know; if I were you, I would speak to the transfer coordinator at Yale and inquire as to what would be considered a competitive SAT score.</p>

<p>Obviously, though, the higher the better.</p>

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<p>Would it be possible to get into another school that is almost as highly ranked as Yale with just a high GPA?</p>

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<p>I had a 2.9 in HS with 2 F's, community college saved my keister.</p>

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Would it be possible to get into another school that is almost as highly ranked as Yale with just a high GPA?

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<p>If you are going for rank, you should not be trying to transfer.</p>

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<p>Congrats to Maize! I know it feels good. Do you have the urge to show off to your HS? And Thomas congrats on Yale!</p>

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<p>I had a 2.0 in high school, I just got admitted to UCLA and Cal</p>

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<p>M+B,</p>

<p>I am assuming you had a 4.0 College GPA?</p>

<p>~Matt</p>

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<p>I'm not just going for rank and prestige. I want the most academically challengning atmosphere I can get into. I do better when the academics are hard. That was one of my problems in high school. The schools I went to were bad schools, and I got bored in all of the classes. With me, great academics are what keep me paying attention and in the classroom.</p>

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<p>The bottom line message of all this is that there's usually a second chance if you don't do so well at some level in your education, but you have to <em>take</em> the second chance and do something good with it for it to help.</p>

<p>What doesn't help is thinking "oh, there's always a second chance" and wallowing in mediocrity. Obviously, anyone with a 2.3 H.S. GPA who's made their way into Brown, or another strong school, has done something good with the second chance.</p>

<p>Congratulations!</p>

<p>-- Mark</p>