<p>I attend a community college currently and I'm applying as a transfer for fall 2011. My first semester was last spring and I got about 17 credits and 13 of which will most likely transfer. I took 7 credit hours this summer, 3 of which will transfer. This fall, I am taking 21 credit hours (Anatomy and Physiology I, Intermediate Algebra, Creative Writing, Honors US History to 1877, a philosophy course, and Intro to Biochem/Organic Chemistry) and depending on the school, all of it should transfer. For next spring, I plan on taking roughly 19 credit hours and calculus next summer. So, by fall 2011, I'll have close to 65 credit hours that will transfer. Is that junior-status? I've tried talking to counselors at my school and none of them were helpful. At all. Depending on who you talk to, you get a million different answers for the same question. </p>
<p>Another question I have is regarding school suggestions. I'm an Ohio resident that would like to stay close to where I live, but not just Ohio (like Pennsylvania). I'm heavily dependent on financial aid and scholarship money, as well. I'm a chemistry major looking to switch to Biochemistry and English (Creative Writing) at a 4-year school. The schools I'm looking at so far are:
Cleveland State University (just because it's a bus ride away and they have an honors program that pays for 100% tuition and books)
Case Western Reserve University
Ohio State University
Kenyon College
Miami University
University of Pennsylvania (just because I figured I'd through a reach school in there, y'know?)
Vassar College (another reach school..!)</p>
<p>At my CC, I have a 4.0, I take at least one honors course a semester (my campus of the CC doesn't have as wide a selection as the other two), I have a paid internship at an organic synthesis lab at Case Western, involved in a social justice program, and in the honors program as well as Phi Theta Kappa.</p>
<p>My HS stats aren't spectacular. I graduated in 2009 with a 3.2 GPA, 23 ACT (that I'm retaking next month) and generic ECs. However, my GPA was on a steady incline junior and senior year (I'm talking nothing less than a 3.8 because of two mistakes two separate teachers made that they couldn't correct. I was ****ed, believe me). All 4.0s. No honors or APs because my guidance counselor told me junior year that the school didn't offer them (I was a transfer that year and didn't know anything about the public school system). She lied. They did have them, my English teacher senior year confronted me about why I wasn't in AP English and the AP English teacher used a paper I wrote on Macbeth as a model for her class.</p>
<p>I talk a lot, so forgive me for the length, but this transfer process is daunting for me and slightly confusing as I have never used the Common App (for frosh admission, the schools I applied to didn't use it).</p>
<p>-gulp- Help?</p>