<p>I think you are on a good track, dko. I am also an EE. I’m going into my junior year, transfering to a private college from CC. Your first year sounds really good, as I took those same classes as well. Most colleges don’t look at SATs when transferring, but some do, such as Cornell. What kind of college are you looking to transfer? Unless it’s a really top ranking one, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Yes, just like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford et al. They do it because test scores are just one piece of a puzzle. They would rather have the very good score with lots of community involvement than the perfect score who clearly did nothing but school, for example.</p>
<p>^I agree. Most of the colleges I was looking at pretty much based their decision solely on GPA. I got a nice letter of reccommendation for Rutgers from a teacher who went there, but when applying, they said NOT to send them any LoRs. I was condering Cornell after recieving a lot of letters from them, but once I saw that they wanted high school transcript and SATs, I knew it wasn’t happening.</p>
<p>I think boneh3ad is right about Princeton. I have had a confirmation from an alumnus. I think it’s more related to a certain quota or a matter of statistics: they do not want to keep everybody from applying. </p>
<p>@ Scorpioserpent;</p>
<p>How do you like being an EE so far? I am going to tell you. I was very apprehensive at first with respect to what I was getting my self into. However with time, I learned to enjoy being an EE and knowing that there were several research projects available for us. I want to transfer to Penn SEAS. The thing with my application is only my SAT scores are sub-par (by too much). My first language is french and I attended a french high school and did everything in french ( add to that poor standardized testing skills and you are done). I graduated from high school in July 08 and and took the SAT in two months after coming to the US. Again it was a poor judgment as my English was then horrendous. Other than that, I wouldn’t mind giving them my HS transcripts. Good luck on your apps by the way.</p>
<p>Veiled bragging thread.</p>
<p>Ok I guess I am not getting many friends over here. Maybe it is the way I formulated my questions. I am NOT bragging. I never openly talk about my academic record and stuff. I just thought I could take advantage of the anonymity of this forum and expose it over here. The goal of this thread was to get advices on my transfer options vis-a-vis of grades and see by how much my test scores would affect me. </p>
<p>Please if you want to criticize me, do it in a constructive way. I am seeking for suggestions not conflicts.</p>
<p>You openly stated you had a 3.967 GPA and were worried about transferring and that not being good enough in the future. That GPA is better than probably 99% of undergrads, so it’s not surprising that people would assume you are bragging.</p>
<p>Maybe I should have chosen another word than “worried”. My question was if with that GPA, some colleges would disregard my SAT scores and I believe you guys already answered that. I understand why people might see it as bragging but believe me when I say my intentions far from snobbery or something similar.</p>
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<p>Ever? Be careful there bone, some companies do ask for SAT scores for internships. I was asked by Macquaire Group for my quant score on the SAT. Keep in mind the requisition was for an assistant quant analyst during the summer term. I believe they asked everyone for such scores. Anyway, I didn’t get it. Who wants to work with people like that anyway.</p>
<p>^Were they ever able to check your scores?</p>
<p>Well I am guessing they hire a company to do background checks and they can definitely figure out if someone is lying. My current employer hired an outside agency for my background check and everything is communicated between them and me. The hiring manager just gets the green signal I suppose.</p>
<p>So what does that company do when a Midwestern student applies and never oo the SAT? Do they take the ACT too? I wouldn’t want to work somewhere that dismisses people based on an SAT score they got in high school. If you ask me, that is ignorant.</p>
<p>Do you guys think the SAT will ever be eliminated from the college admission process? I mean like completely crossed off?</p>
<p>Well that company is based in Australia and the recruiting manager was working from London. So I guess they know more about the SAT standard since its more popular overseas. You can call it whatever you want but they do pay a lot more than what an engineer makes and to most people that’s all that matters. Not me though :)</p>
<p>@ greenvision</p>
<p>I as that practice of requesting SAT scores common among companies in the US?</p>
<p>I have never heard of a US company asking about the SAT.</p>
<p>I’ve heard of finance/banking firms asking for SAT scores, but not engineering.</p>
<p>I saw Capital One for an engineering type (don’t remember what exactly it was, but is was engineering-y) job list SAT/ACT scores as one of the criteria they were looking at, though they might have just copied and pasted the same criteria for all the jobs they were posting.</p>
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No it’s not likely, that would be insensible. If it were ever eliminated, it would only be due to another company taking over the college admissions exam The point of the matter is that there must be a nationally standardized admissions exam to compare students across the nation on a scale that (presumably) disregards differences in individual schools.</p>
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Well that’s not good. My SAT scores aren’t really great. Why on earth do companies care about our SAT scores. It’s highschool.</p>