SAT Weight on Transfer app

Transfer Students
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<p>For months now I've been really considering about transferring, mainly because of better academic opportunities and environment that may enhance my premed experience... most schools that take in transfers require the SAT1 test... last time i took it was my senior year in high school in which i got 1180... i know it shouldnt impact too much for a transfer applicant, but approximately how much weight does it carry upon my application? I'm currently going into my 2nd year in the fall, I have a 3.96 with good ECs... i'm planning to apply for junior year and I feel that I should retake my SATs sometime before i submit my application but i also feel that im wasting time in doing so</p>

<p>My top schools are: Tufts, NYU, Hopkins
Longshot schools are: Harvard, Columbia, Stanford</p>

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<p>Which school are you at now?. As a transfer there is very little emphasis placed on the SAT's, on the other hand however it will definitely hurt you at Harvard, Columbia and Stanford. For Tufts NYU and Hopkins I think that you will be better placed... Tufts tends to be quite transfer friendly, I think that it has an acceptance rate in the mid thirties... make sure you write excellent essays and if your ec's are as good as you claim then you are a competitive applicant for your list of top schools.</p>

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<p>i am currently in UCR right now, I'm a psychology/premed major</p>

<p>besides my gpa here are my ECs</p>

<p>Founding Chapter President of an honor society
Founding President of a cooking club
Vice President of the American Medical Student Association
Pre-health professions mentor
Volunteer at a traumatic brain injury center
Will be shadowing physicians in this upcoming school year
Writer of the recipe section of the school newspaper
Research assistant for a prof who does research on physiology and evolution</p>

<p>I really messed up highschool =(, 1180 on the SAT, 3.4 weighted, probably 2.7-3.0 unweighted or lower... suspended for a practical joke in junior year, got a D in PE freshman year, Failed honors math in junior year... but I really kicked it up a notch my senior year of high school 1st sem 3.83 weighted, 3.0 unweighted, 4.0 weighted, 3.28 unweighted</p>

<p>These are the APs and honors I took in highschool
Honors Science (freshman year)
Honors Math (junior year, i totally failed it)
AP BC Calculus (4 on the exam)
AP Stats (2 on the exam)
AP Spanish (1 on the exam)
AP Art History (4 on the exam)
AP Gov (didnt take it)
AP Econ (didnt take it)
AP Enviro sci (didnt take it)</p>

<p>Because of my failing of math, I have taken an additional year of math this year to show them that I can do math. Heres what I will have completed by the end of my 2nd year before transferring my third year. Also will the transfer admissions consider my courseload as being heavier than a normal major being that I am a humanities major also going into a health professions path?</p>

<p>6 Quarters of Chemistry (General and Organic) (w lab)
3 Quarters of Math (I just currently completed multivariable calculus)
3 Quarters of English
3 Quarters of Phyiscs (w lab)
3 Quarters of German
3 Quarters of Psych
3 Quarters of Biology (w lab)</p>

<p>Though I have really *****ty stats for high school, do I stand a good chance for harvard, or other ivy leagues?</p>

<p>thanks for all the help guys, im new to this forum and I'm glad theres people like me out there that also want to transfer =D</p>

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<p>One of my friends just finished his frosh year at our state uni and hated it. He was considering transferring for junior year-- you can't take the SATs over again, just for transferring? He was planning to take the SAT again, for a new, hopefully better, score than he got in high school. He was hoping to use the better score for use in his transfer apps. </p>

<p>So it's not possible to re-take the SATs for college transferring?</p>

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<p>as far as I know, I think you can take the SATs whenever you want, i remember emailing them that question last year</p>

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<p>You can take the SAT's whenever you want, though keep in mind the test has had a facelift as of late. The more competitive schools definitely consider your SAT's, and my intuition is that your scores are weighed more in the admissions process than most people here claim. This is not to say that a 1580 will give an applicant an edge over someone with a 1500, but that an applicant with super-scores will likely have more success than an otherwise-similar applicant with mediocre scores. Byeh, your scores are not atrocious or anything, but if you are serious about competing for your reaches, you may do well to take the test again. Harvard, for example, recommends transfer students to have 600+ on math and verbal, though these numbers seem a little low based on the profiles admitted students who post here.</p>