I need your honest opinion (TRANSFER)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Georgetown University
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<p>I am not very happy at BU--I love the city of Boston, but the school--in many ways--seems .....lacking.
It seems unecessarily difficult for its reputation. I also think no one takes BU seriously, outside of the BU community.</p>

<p>Here are my stats, and it is not impressive:</p>

<p>Transfer from Boston University, Class of 2009
Major: Undeclared, but non-science pre-med (likely to change)
1st semester:</p>

<p>CALCULUS (B-)
WRITING (required class, A)
CHEMISTRY ("weeding out" class for pre-med, notoriosuly difficult! B-)
PSYCHOLOGY (B+)</p>

<p>2nd semester
CHEMISTRY 2
CALCULUS 2
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
WRITING 2 (REQ)</p>

<p>I know my current stats suck. My cumulative GPA after 1 semester is 3.2....
I'm going to work even harder next semester and get my gpa up to about 3.5-6</p>

<p>High School:
GPA: 4.3 on a 4.0 scale
Rank: 11/571
ACT: 30
SAT: 1300/1600
SAT II: 790/700/670</p>

<p>ECs: Too many to count, very impressive, the x factor that got me into schools like Johns Hopkins, Wellesley, WashU in st. Louis, and after getting on the waiting list, Brown.</p>

<p>I know, I am a fool for choosing BU....
Do I have even a remote chance of getting into Georgetown as a transfer? Please help, it would be soo appreciated.</p>

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<p>I talked to an admissions representative from Georgetown yesterday regarding transfer. First, I think your chances depend on whether you are applying to Georgetown college or the School of Foreign Services. If college, the transfer admit rate is very similar to the average freshman rate at 25% last year. I believe SFS was much tougher at 16%. Also, she told me the average GPA for all transfer admits were 3.7, but Boston University is known for having a widespread GPA deflation so that might help your 3.2 a bit. If you are fairly confident that you can pull your grade next semester, you might consider waiting for the Spring admissions or since your high school GPA and extra curricular crudentials look pretty good, you could apply this year and give them a bigger weight.</p>

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you might consider waiting for the Spring admissions

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<p>Georgetown does not consider students for the spring.</p>