Help with midterm/overall grades for Ivies and etc.!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am applying to transfer to Penn, Cornell, and a few other similar schools, and I was wondering if my midterm grades would severely dampen my chances of getting in. Note that for semester 1, I took a lot of courses I already had credit for (bio 1, chem 2) through AP exams. Semester 2 was the semester when I took courses I had never taken before.
Academic record details===
Transfer major: moving from biomedical sciences to political science
High school: 2160 SAT, 3.63 unweighted GPA, 14% class rank, International Baccalaureate recipient (31 points), 13 AP exams taken–all “fives” except two.

College: 150-170 ranked state school
Semester 1: 17 credits, 4.0 GPA
Took Biology 1 + lab, Chemistry 2, Physics 1 + lab, Intro to Psych, Honors humanities course

Semester 2 MID TERM GRADES: (16 credits, 3.5 GPA based on grades recorded for mid-terms)
Cell bio (course after Biology 2) lecture: no grade; lab: B
Organic chemistry I lecture: B; lab A-
Physics II lecture: A+; lab no grade
Biopsychology honors: A-

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10charbump

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10charbump.

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IB is too low IMO
Penn-High Reach
Cornell- Mid Reach to High Reach

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@bored1997 so for the main question, would my midterm grades be a significant problem for transferring?

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Those and your high school gpa and test scores pose a problem. Don’t expect too much.
Very high reaches.

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It’s already more difficult for transfer applicants than freshman applicants (and I’m going to guess that most transfer applicants who are successful come from other top 20 schools/have very high GPAs). Your 3.5 this semester unfortunately means that your chances are even worse (especially considering your high school academic record also does not stand out.