<p>I currently go to George Washington University, and I’m applying to Georgetown SFS for this Fall. If it doesn’t work out I’ll apply for BC for Spring 2011.</p>
<p>I’m starting to grow impatient. This wait is driving me nuts… I haven’t been able to think all day.</p>
<p>Just another week to go . . . breathe . . . . breathe!!!</p>
<p>What is everyone’s GPA at their current University?</p>
<p>Would any of those looking to transfer out of NU be willing to share what you don’t like about the school and your reasons for leaving? My youngest is currently a junior and NU is one of her top choice schools. Thank you.</p>
<p>Hi Kelly,
I just finished my freshman year at Northeastern. While it is a great school, it is not a traditional college in many ways, which is what I didn’t like. When I say traditional college, I mean big grassy quads, residential, tight-knit community, a lot of school spirit, etc. Northeastern is very unique with the co-op program and everything, but this makes for a student body that I felt was very disjointed. At any given time, thousands of students are working on co-op and many are in cities other than Boston. Northeastern could never really feel like home. Another aspect that factors into that is that fact that it isn’t really a residential campus. After freshman year, a lot of students live off campus.<br>
I also didn’t like being right in the city…I like the suburbs better and at BC I can still get into Boston really easily.<br>
Like I said, Northeastern is a great school. Some of the things that I mentioned as negatives could be seen as positives by other students. It just wasn’t the college experience that I was looking for.</p>
<p>Thank you for your detailed response jetsfan. Your reasons make a lot of sense, and I’m going to pass your post on to my daughter.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you in getting accepted to BC. My oldest daughter is a junior there and loves it.</p>
<p>I’m a 20 year old Hispanic American male from NJ
Here are my stats:
HS Stats: 3.3 UW GPA, SAT scores: 1180/1900
English Major</p>
<p>Wagner College (27 Credits)
Fall 2008 GPA: 3.4
Spring 2009 GPA: 3.8
WC cumulative GPA: 3.6</p>
<p>NJ Community College (31 Credits)
Fall 2009 GPA: 3.68 (B- in General Chemistry)
Spring 2010 GPA: 4.0
CC cumulative GPA: 3.83
ECs: 1 year Varsity Tennis at my 1st school. Sociology Club, Philosophy Club, Psychology Club, some HS ECs
Recommendations: Incredibly strong
In-Major GPA (English): 3.9 </p>
<p>Do you guys think I have a chance at Boston College CAS? I wonder what kind of applicants make up that 9% who get accepted.</p>
<p>Where do see that it’s a 9% acceptance rate?
I see 21%</p>
<p>Are you that’s not the university’s overall transfer acceptance rate? I read somewhere that the transfer acceptance rate for CAS is usually around 9%</p>
<p>Hey I am applying to BC (Carroll School of Management) currently a freshman at a cc in southern california, also applying to Northeastern as well with a plethora of other schools as well. Kinda makes me nervous how you all are transferring out of NU since that was like my second or third choice.</p>
<p>CAS is the easiest school to get into at Boston College, simply for the fact that it has the most majors and therefore accepts the most students. A 9% acceptance rate may be true for the carrol school of management, or maybe the school of nursing, but according to the transfer statistics on the Boston College website ([At</a> A Glance - 2005 / 2004 - Boston College](<a href=“http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/transfer/ataglance.html]At”>http://www.bc.edu/admission/undergrad/transfer/ataglance.html)) for the 2008-2009 school year, about 21% of transfers were accepted.</p>
<p>•Average college G.P.A. for accepted students: 3.58</p>
<p>•Average SAT for accepted students: 1937 (2400 point scale)</p>
<p>•Average ACT for accepted students: 28</p>
<p>This was also for the class that applied two years ago, but I can’t see the numbers being very much different. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing that up PaulaDanielle. I received a bit of misinformation, because I clearly remember someone saying that CAS has the highest retention rate at BC and consequently has a 9% transfer acceptance rate.
So do you think they’ve made transfer decisions already? Will they wait for Spring grades? Because I have a 4.0 GPA this semester, but I can’t get the transcript to Boston College before May 7th. I’m really worried because I don’t want to get rejected because of that B- in Gen. Chem. (why oh why did I take that class… )</p>
<p>I received an email from the office of admissions that said that the decisions will be sent May 10th.</p>
<p>Will decisions be made available online? I know that Cornell is only mailing their decisions so I was wondering if BC was going to do the same. I just saw the Caroll school admission statistic and I’m seriously freaking out now.</p>
<p>I highly doubt I’m getting in, but just curious: what are everyone’s stats??</p>
<p>Also how much do you think Spring semester grades will factor into the decision?</p>
<p>@meppie Are you transferring as a sophomore?</p>
<p>they made decisions on april 27 and are just finishing up course evaluations before sending out the letters. so i would say that the mid-term spring semester grades were considered but not final grades.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>