Help for a reformed hellraiser...

<p>Hello all,</p>

<p>I am interested in transfering to Drexel University in Philadelphia. I am currently enrolled at Southern Illinois University college in Carbondale, IL. The school here is terrible and I really dislike the whole area. I miss living in an urban area. I am from Chicago and being out in the middle of nowhere is kind of a culture shock for me. </p>

<p>I am hoping to transfer to a more prestigious school and to an urban area outside of IL. I want to find a school that does not require a car, is in an environment that does not get so hot or humid, and is going to allow me to have fun while I am there. </p>

<p>A little history of myself may be in order. </p>

<p>I am 24 (25 in September), hispanic male. Neither of my parents are college graduates and my mother is a high school dropout. Both of my younger sisters are in college. One is studying art at the local community college and the other is a grad student in engineering at Purdue university. I am the black sheep of the family (or was). </p>

<p>I have a 3.098 GPA at my current school. This is a big improvement over my highschool GPA which was somewhere along the lines of one point something or other. IT was low and I was a hellraiser in high school. I had been thrown out of high school 9 times. I went to emotionally disturbed schools, learning disabled schools, and behavior disorder schools. Eventually I went to a state run military school and I got kicked out of that. I maybe able to get a few letters of recomendation from some of the teachers who liked me (hard to believe there were any) both in college and high school. </p>

<p>As I stated earlier I have a 3.098 GPA. I am a sociology major and can probably finangle a letter of recoomendation from a teacher I had. The problem was that she was a grad student and I am worried that this will affect how seriously other schools take her. </p>

<p>I also have another teacher who has a few contacts at the school I am most interested in (Drexel). Me and him got into a quite a few heated debates in class and argued over a lot. However I got the impression that he liked me (He also insulted me personally and I have a few supportive witnesses but overall I think he liked that I would argue with him) as I recieved an A in his class.</p>

<p>Both of them were sociology teachers and proffessors. I have passed all of my Sociology classes with As and Bs. I have 48 credits and most of them are general education credits. Math, English, and electives. </p>

<p>I failed one class. It was a Zoology 115 class that I recieved an F in (I simply did not want to get up that early). I retook the class and my school put it on as a Plant BIology Class which I recieved a B in. It was the exact class but the teacher was different. I am going to ask the school if there is any way to take the course I failed out and keep only the one I passed on my transcripts and/or GPA. </p>

<p>The schools I am interested in are:</p>

<p>Drexel in Philadelphia
Temple in Philladelphia
University of Washington at Seattle
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Illinois State University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Miami
University of Florida</p>

<p>And a Bump for me.</p>

<p>"I want to find a school that does not require a car, is in an environment that does not get so hot or humid, and is going to allow me to have fun while I am there."
Sounds like the UW is perfect for you. However, your grades are pretty low for a UW transfer applicant, and the fact that nobody seems willing to write you a rec will definitely hurt you. I know a couple friends who got into UW Business with a CC GPA of 3.0 and 3.3, but they were in-state (but then again they were also applying to the Business school and are not URMs). </p>

<p>I'd say try to get some teachers to like you and make yourself an interesting applicant and you have a shot at UW.</p>

<p>I can get a few teachers to write letters of recomendation for me. The Sociology Head and another Sociology teacher.</p>