<p>Say if I want to transfer elsewhere with a 4.0 GPA and say 50 credits in college, how much does my high school stuff including SAT/ACT matter?</p>
<p>After all, although I didn't do well in high school. I surely did in college.</p>
<p>With 50 credits, I assume you're transferring as a junior transfer. It's moderately important, but your college GPA and ECs are going to be far more important. If you were transferring as a sophomore, I'd say it's still pretty important.</p>
<p>So how important are all your previous high school material?</p>
<p>Depends on the school you're applying to. Some schools will not care about your HS degree after X amount of credits.</p>
<p>Well i'm looking for colleges that have a strong reputations in computer science and arts. Like RIT CMU, maybe Purdue, Georgia Tech, and others I don't know. I'm more interested in CMU though. And also, i've ONLY taken the ACT with a horrible 23 and a high school gpa of 3.2</p>
<p>What about SAT/ACT? My ACT was very weak and do colleges still look at my ACT or require SAT after x amount of credits?</p>
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While Carnegie Mellon does request that you submit academic information from your high school experience, we rely more heavily on your academic progress in college/university to determine your readiness for transfer to Carnegie Mellon. Students who did not perform as well as they would have liked in high school can demonstrate their academic readiness via their college experience and not be heavily penalized for their high school work </p>
<p>For non-academic performance, we look to see if you have been involved both within the curriculum and at an extracurricular level. In regards to standardized testing results, we look to see how well you fared on all standardized testing you completed. The combination of all three factors allows us to make a well-rounded and nuanced decision in regards to your application. However, all decisions are contingent first and foremost upon space availability within a program. If no space is available, then applications will not be reviewed for that program.
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<p>This is what most Uni's will say. Since you're a junior transfer it most likely applies to you.</p>
<p>Are you trying to apply to Tepper?</p>
<p>Never heard of Tepper i'll check it out. Hey thanks alot but what are the chances of transffering to CMU with a 3.8 GPA? There transfer rate is pretty competitive. Would more EC have to compensate it?</p>
<p>No No, Tepper is CMU's business school. I was just fishing.</p>
<p>I have no idea about the chances q, but I'm sure you would definitely need some College Ec's to be competitive. Are you finishing this year?</p>
<p>no I was just kidding about 3.8. I have actually a 3.2 gpa. i"m planning to spend 2 semesters going back to fix up my GPA if I can. Do you think this is a wise decision? You're not me but if u were in my shoes would you do it?</p>
<p>Haha I'm going for their interdisciplinary Bachelor of Computer science and arts. If I can't get in (which maybe not) i'll check out purdue or RIT.</p>
<p>I don't know whether you already have 50 college credits or plan to after two more semesters. If you already have them, be sure to check each transfer school you're considering as to the MAX # credits you can have and still transfer.</p>
<p>There are two different issues - how many credits they will actually TAKE and how many they will let you have to even apply. Some people think "Well, I have 80 credits, but I don't mind giving up 20 extra credits since I can only transfer 60." That's all well and good, but some schools won't consider you if you have two many credits... Not saying it applies to the schools you want, but you need to check.</p>
<p>Ditto with how much they care about hs record. Bourne posted the policy of one school (and, thank you again to Bourne; he is one of our most helpful transfer forum posters). As he says, it's kind of typical. But "kind of typical" doesn't mean it represents any given school. It doesn't take long to click on Transfer Admissions websites for each school of interest to you and check out their requirements. I do believe there are some which won't concern themselves with your hs record at all, if you are a junior transfer.</p>