Rutgers transfer

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Hello everyone. I’m currently a first semester freshman at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. I couldn’t attend college during the Fall 2014 semester due to personal reasons. This semester, however, I am attempting 16 credits. Also, I am a declared Biology major. The classes I’m taking this semester are:

General Biology- Organisms
General Chemistry I
General Chemistry Lab I
Journey of Transformation (Core)
University Life (Core)
Calculus I

Now, my top choice is Georgetown. However, Rutgers is my main back up. I would love to attend Rutgers until I graduate. I am considered instate; I have been living in New Jersey for 10+ years now. On their website, it says that they need SAT/ACT scores if you have under 12 credits. My SAT was decent: 1790. 1730 is the 25th percentile for the School of Arts and Sciences, which is the school I plan on applying to. However, my high school GPA was not that great. It was around a 3.1? Something like that. Yet, I did improve year by year. My extracurriculars were impressive though. Captain of the Basketball team. Our team was nationally ranked. I could list my full resume if anyone here wishes to see the whole thing. Anyhow, if I manage to get a 3.5+ GPA this semester, do I have a good chance of getting accepted for the Fall 2015 semester? Thank you.

Also, I feel as if my SAT is decent, but it could be higher. I plan on taking the next one, which is in March. I also have 3 credits from English Composition 101, which I took during the Rutgers Summer Session in 2013.

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Your SAT and GPA are both on the lower end, I wouldn’t say you have a good chance. Also, I don’t even know if they allow you to transfer with only one semester of college completed. Basically they are only going off of your high school record at this point since you have no college grades, and from what you have said that record really put you around the 25th percentile for accepted applicants. Try again for Spring 2016 if you don’t make it this time.

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Actually, they do allow people with just one semester. I contacted them and I also have a friend who transferred to Spring 2015 with one semester under his belt.