<p>im currently a freshman at a small private school right outside Manhattan. It is a good school but under the radar a bit. I play a varsity sport there and after the end of my first semester i believe i will have a 3.8-4.0. My high school gpa was pretty low (2.6) but it was a very very good prep school. My SAT scores were okay 1310 (M-750, R-560, W-570). Im planning on retaking them. My mom went to UVA and it is in-state for me. I know that the upward trend helps but since my high school grades were so low. Am i wasting my time trying to apply to the College of Arts and Sciences Pre-Commerce at UVA for my sophomore year? I will finish my freshman year with 31 credits.</p>
<p>Thanks for your time and hopefully wisdom</p>
<p>The closer you are to your high school grades, the more that the adcoms will rely on them in transfer admissions. If you apply for the Fall '10 semester, you will have only one semester’s worth of grades to show them. Even though you went to a “very very good prep school” you got a 2.6 and there are people at UVA who also went to similar caliber schools and had GPA’s in the 3.5+ ballpark AND got good grades in their present college/university.</p>
<p>I think, sans a major hook (what varsity sport do you play?), you may have difficulty being admitted as a second year. Legacy status will definitely be a plus though. If you wanted to try for next spring there is a very small percentage of people who are admitted for the spring semester (if you were to wait an additional semester to give UVA a full year’s grades.) The other catch is that if you are looking at the Comm School, it can be difficult to transfer in as a third year since they do not take many transfers.</p>
<p>You really don’t have anything to lose but about $50-60, so why not go for it? The UVA transfer application isn’t too stressful since LOR’s aren’t required and the essays are fairly straightforward.</p>
<p>I play lacrosse. I couldn’t play at virginia besides maybe club i realize. Would it be easier or make more sense to transfer to JMU for a year and then try to transfer to UVA for my junior year. I feel as if two transfers might not look very good. Although I am majoring in Business at my current school, it is a tech school and its just a general business degree since majority of the school is engineering. Im worried that possibly taking more classes next year might not be easy to transfer over. For example, I can not take a foreign language and I am very resricted and limited on the business courses I can take…Would coming from JMU with more applicable classes make sense or would it be harder considering JMU is another in-state school and transferring twice might be frowned upon?</p>