<li>Do most schools want transfers who will be starting their junior year?</li>
<li>I’m looking to transfer to Michigan or Northwestern.</li>
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<p>I currently attend the University of Wisconsin and I want to transfer because I don’t feel it gives me any competitive edge over someone for example, going to my home state school (University of Kentucky) so why waste the money at a subpar school?</p>
<p>However, in high school I didn’t do well enough to be accepted into schools worth mentioning.</p>
<p>26 ACT, 3.6 GPA, top 22%… had a lot of state-national awards though and two pretty good recommendations. I was waitlisted at Michigan and surprisingly waitlisted at Vanderbilt (expected flat out rejection).</p>
<p>However, after my first semester here I am looking at a 3.6-3.7 GPA and I hope to end my freshmen year (at which point I will have 36 credits, which is like having nearly 3 semesters, or halfway through my soph year completed) with around a 3.7.</p>
<p>a) is a better college GPA good enough to compensate for a subpar high school transcript</p>
<p>b) at what point will the high school transcript matter less</p>
<p>and c) when is the best time to transfer? Before the junior year?</p>
<p>A lot of schools will say you need at least one year and some will say at least two years. Most will say no more than three and they'll transfer up to two years (if you have three). </p>
<p>The schools I'm applying to don't look at your high school, at all, after you've achieved Junior status, but still weigh heavily if you haven't. </p>
<p>These are all just general rules. The short answer is: you need to investigate for yourself, depending on what school you want. Find out which schools you want to transfer to and look on their website.</p>
<p>a) when you transfer, college GPA is the most (if not only) imprtant thing for you. I don't know how it is at UMich or NW . . . But I do know here in CA, it doesnt even matter if you graduate high school (I didn't graduate and got into UCLA as a transfer), much less what grades you got. Do UMich and NW ask for hs transcripts for your application?
Bottom line, if you did well at univ, ur hs record is much less important. they only care about how u can perform in college. </p>
<p>b) best time to transfer is at the start of ur junior year, this is also the time that most school want to accept you (as opposed to sophmore transfers).
Try to complete sequences of courses (example - math A,B,C or english I,II) before transferring, so you don't have to repeat coursework after transferring. Also try to get ur general ed stuff done so you can start doing upper divs when u transfer.</p>
<p>most important thing is to keep ur grades up. wisconcon has a pretty good reputation, so if u keep a 3.6 or 3.7 u should be a competitive applicant.</p>