<p>Anyone know what your gpa needs to be to transfer to either of these schools? And how much do they look at high school grades, SAT scores and EC's? It would seem they would focus more on freshman year at college.</p>
<p>Does anyone know?</p>
<p>Well they recomend at 3.0 as do all universities...but what they really want to see is something between a 3.7 and a 4.0 if your a Liberal Arts major and something around 3.4 to 4.0 if your an Engineering major.</p>
<p>Depends on how many credits you've accumulated when they look at high school grades. I had 51 credits at my states school with a 3.76 and got accepted into Tufts and WUSTL...but my High School grades were absolutely attrocious. I wasn't even in the top 30% of my high school...so if your a sophomore junior they aren't going to give a damn about high school grades in most cases</p>
<p>Just write the best essay of your life, something that you'll enjoy writing, and they'll accept you anywhere</p>
<p>Well, my daughter has a 3.65 and made the Dean's List and wants to transfer into Liberal Arts as a sophomore. She only took 1 AP (mostly honors) in high school and had a 3.5. I'm afraid the 1230 SAT will hurt her also. She had some very strong EC's but I don't know how much they look at those. Hopefully, she can pull it off with a great resume.</p>
<p>If she can write extremely well than she is going to get in anywhere. Writing a compelling essay is probally the biggest part of the application since there are 3-4 million kids out there with virutally the sames stats, SAT's and EC's...</p>
<p>Collegees accept you based on how good they think your going to make their school look. Typically writers, regardless of what field whether it be science, math, english, political science are the ones with the best potential to make the school look good...i.e. later in life when they're doing all their publishing you readers are going to see the words "B.A. Georgetown Universtiy" on every book, article, journal, op-ed piece that is written by that author...thats how the school gets its name out there and continues to recieve donations, interest, endowments etc.</p>
<p>My advice would be for your daughter to get at the very least 2 semesters of college work under her belt and if at all possible 3 or 4 to minimize the importance of her SAT's and maxamize her chances of acceptance. Alot of schools (Hopkins, Tufts, WUSTL, just for examples) don't even require that you submit an SAT score. Regardless of whether the request it, the odds of acceptance increase with the time spent in college.</p>
<p>I only had a 3.76 at a no name state school and I got into Tufts. Certainly no UVA but a good school in its own right...</p>
<p>Also tell her to get recs from teachers that love her...I got recs from teachers that really cared about me and it helped me out immensely. Most important thing...write a really good essay, and essay that she is going to have fun writing...you need to have fun with your writing because if you don't the essay is going to be boring. Sit down for half an hour with a pen and just write to get some ideas on the page</p>
<p>Thanks for your help illmat! She has one recommendation already, but should probably get at least one more, don't you think?</p>
<p>curious,
If your daughter could get a 4.0 this semester, I think she would have a okay shot at getting into UVa. I went to Tech last year got a 4.0 first semester then transfered to UVa this past fall. Its not beyond reach but she needs to do something to show them that she really can excel in college. About the recs, UVa at least doesn't really care much about them for transfers, I didn't submit any.<br>
Just as an aside, unless you want your daughter to go in state for $ reasons I wouldn't recommend going to Tech for poli sci, it really isn't a very strong program at all.</p>
<p>wahoo,
She figured the recs could only help considering her gpa and SAT in high school wasn't great. As for the $, coming in-state would cut the tuition in half, so I would be lying if I said it didn't factor in, but it's not the sole reason. She heard JMU has a great poli-sci program. Have you heard the same thing?</p>
<p>She's also hoping the essay might help her.</p>
<p>I have heard that JMU has a good poli sci program. Probably not as good as UVa's but certainly much better than Tech's. Of course, you're right in that recs can only help her.</p>
<p>"If your daughter could get a 4.0 this semester, I think she would have a okay shot at getting into UVa."</p>
<p>The 3.65 is what's on her transcript for last semester, and they already have that (had to send it in with the app for fall transfer). She can try for the 4.0 this semester and then have it mailed again in May, but she's taking 2 poli-sci classes (one being on the junior level) so it will be tough...lots of papers.</p>