<p>Hey everyone, I was recently rejected by Purdue (very quickly) and received my decision letter today. They revealed that they first consider my high school performance and second my college performance.</p>
<p>My question is, if I'm a transfer student with 91 semester hours and 11 years out of high school why on earth did they look at my high school record?</p>
<p>Also is this to be expected for every college I apply too? I was under the impression if you're a transfer student they disregard high school grades and the ACT/SAT.</p>
<p>I might as well give up on college if they're going to consider high school every time...</p>
<p>That’s pretty strange that they would consider high school records important for transfer applicants at junior level or higher.</p>
<p>On the other hand, transfer applicants at senior level (which 91 semester credit hour units normally is, except perhaps if they are all from community colleges) may be problematic at many universities.</p>
<p>I just saw on Purdue’s website that they do have high school course expectations that transfer students need to meet. I guess if you did poorly in high school you can forget ever getting into Purdue. I’m just hoping this isn’t the case with most colleges or I’m screwed. </p>
<p>Those credit are all from community colleges. Do you think that many credits is going to impede my chances as well?</p>
<p>They also say on their site that if you don’t meet their high school course expectations they’ll review your college transcript to see if we’ve made up the deficiencies. I’d say I made up the deficiencies when my high school GPA was like 1.67 and my college GPA is 3.53. I know it’s not a stellar GPA but it’s an upward trend if I’ve ever seen one.</p>
<p>11years out of high school is quite a long time. I think this merits a letter to whoever it is at Purdue who is responsible for non-traditional students. Provided of course that at least some of your college credits are reasonably recent.</p>
<p>Wow. Just wow.</p>
<p>Happykid went through the transfer process last year. Not one of the colleges she looked at wanted to see a HS transcript. Purdue is an outlier.</p>
<p>They didn’t specifically point to my high school grades as a reason for rejection but they stated they looked over my high school and college records and felt I wasn’t competitive enough. </p>
<p>That’s fine if they came to that conclusion based on my college performance, but I can’t see how high school should have any effect on my evaluation. I’m now reading that UMN has high school prep requirements as well. I emailed UMN to see how important high school prep requirements and HS performance are in their review.</p>
<p>I applied to 7 schools and only UMD and OSU didn’t want a high school transcript, but I thought the others mainly used it as proof of graduation.</p>
<p>While some colleges (e.g. California publics) do not like senior level transfer applicants, applicants whose credits all come from community colleges are exempt from this restriction. You may want to check to see if there are similar restrictions and exemptions at the colleges you applied to.</p>
<p>Do you have cost limitations? The California publics do not consider high school records for junior level transfers (60 or more semester credits), but they will be too expensive for out of state students who need financial aid to attend.</p>
<p>Purdue is one of the colleges that explicitly states in their common data set that HS transcripts are required of all students. I have to wonder if, despite the differences in GPA, the OP did not really make up the HS deficiencies (perhaps math or science classes)?</p>
<p>OP, you can look at the common data set for colleges, section D, to see which ones will not consider HS grades.</p>
<p>I’ve definitely made up the differences. It’s night and day. My high school records, for everything except P.E., consisted of mostly Ds and Fs with a dash of Cs. My records in college (calculus, calc-based physics, college chemistry…) consisted of As, Bs, and one C. </p>
<p>I took much more difficult classes and got As and Bs with the exception of one C.</p>
<p>Ucbalumnus, As much as I’d love to go to one of the UCs I have heard it’s nearly impossible for out of staters. I don’t how much truth there is to that, but I’ve heard it enough for it to deter me from applying.</p>
<p>BTW, UMN replied to my email and said that with at least 26 semester hours, high school records will not be evaluated.</p>
<p>I still think it’s worth a note to the Non-Trad Admissions officer at Purdue. This looks like rejection-by-computer, and if so could mean that they need to reprogram the system to account for dates of HS graduation and dates of college credits.</p>
<p>UCs are not the only California publics; the cheaper CSUs are mostly less selective. But the less popular UCs are likely to also be in reach if you have a 3.5ish college GPA. However, the UCs are expensive for out-of-state students.</p>
<p>For example, here are the threshold GPAs at San Jose State for transfer applicants for fall 2012 (but note that out-of-state applicants need the higher of 2.4 or the GPA listed for the major):</p>
<p>[SJSU</a> Admission](<a href=“http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-915.html]SJSU”>http://info.sjsu.edu/web-dbgen/narr/admission/rec-915.html)</p>
<p>The least popular CSUs admit at the baseline GPA, which is 2.0 in-state and 2.4 out-of-state. Of course, all transfer applicants should have the preparatory courses for their majors completed as much as they can before transfer.</p>
<p>Thank you for your concern happymom, but I don’t think writing a letter will change anything. They’re just going to cover their butts one way or another or pass the blame to someone else. </p>
<p>If I thought it could benefit me at all I’d give it a shot, but they’re just going to say, “well, we carefully review each application and we’ve made our decision. We’re sorry, but be sure to apply for Spring semester.” Or something to that effect.</p>
<p>This makes me nervous as well. I am not a non-traditional student but I am applying as a Junior to Boston University and they also require HS transcripts. I had a cumulative GpA of something like 2.83 uw in HS but have a 3.88 in college now. On their site they say they expect a “B+ average in high school coursework” even for transfers. I would really hate if that means an automatic rejection.</p>