<p>College: Carnegie Mellon
Yr: Freshman
Classes: four classes + 1 elective in the 1st semester, four classes in the 2nd semester.
GPA: 1st semester- 4.0 2nd mid-semester: 4.0
SAT: V.700 M.700 W.710
HS gpa: 3.49 (had 3.68 before my senior year. Had 2.3 and 3.0 in my senior yr)
EC, essays: pretty good.</p>
<p>Plz tell me my chances to columbia and Penn. My concerns are my very low HS gpa and the fact that I only took four classes each term.</p>
<p>carnegie mellon!@#!@# ****ing hard school...4.0???</p>
<p>well, I hate giving chances as I am unaware of my own but a 4.0 from carnegie mellon looks pretty damn good. if your highschool grades got you into CMU in the first place, I doubt they will have a heavy impact on your transfer chances.</p>
<p>yea, but i only took four classes tho</p>
<p>well really you took 9 over all, giving you at least 26 credits or so right? as long as you have 24 credits, they will look over your application. if the classes you took were fairly demanding and you pulled a 4.0 the entire time, your chances seem very good to me. </p>
<p>EDIT: 4 classes at a time really isn't such a small amount anyway. with the elective, you took 5 classes, and then 4 classes which is about average to what a college freshman would take. again, maybe its just me but that seems like it shouldn't really effect your decision.</p>
<p>The college at Penn and the college at Columbia?</p>
<p>ohhhhhh man, I think I have well over 24 credits because my languages classes and calculus course offer more credits than the regular ones. thx alot AdamM412</p>
<p>yea, college of Arts and Science and columbia college.</p>
<p>do you have any AP credits? (Important for Columbia)</p>
<p>You seem like an awesome applicant, but I would have to guess that you would be rejected by Columbia just because of the difficulty. And maybe accepted by Penn with some luck.</p>
<p>There was actually a 4.0 CMU student with 1540 SATs who got rejected last year. (And he was a junior transfer so he held that 4.0 for 3+ semesters) Other transfer decisions:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=189063%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=189063</a></p>
<p>But GL!! You're def. in the running. You'll probably get to the final round.</p>
<p>Are you H&SS? Any particular reason you are transferring? What classes did you actually take?</p>
<p>AP credits? u mean the high school AP courses? do colleges really care about this? I thought some ivys dun even give credits for getting five on those...</p>
<p>yeah, I am an H&SS student. mmm i applied as a poly-sci major. but i thought my major was way too broad, so i decided to narrow down my focus lil bit. since then I thought of majoring in Eastern Asian studies because I liked chinese history courses a lot more than that of poli-sci's. The problem was the fact that there is only one professor on Asian history. </p>
<p>I took Comparative politics, Chinese 1, Chinese Culture and society, and English for the 1st semester, and Modern China, world contemporary literature, Chinese 2, and calculus 1 for the 2nd semester.</p>
<p>Columbia likes AP credits from transfers because they have a huge humanities core requirement that AP credit can help with a little. (Maybe especially important for you since you only took 4 classes last semester and don't have that many credits?...)</p>
<p>You see, often times transfer credits don't transfer. And they don't want their students to get a little behind and stay for over 4 years (decreasing the graduation rate and making Columbia fall in [insert name] rankings)</p>
<p>I think you're going to need another year gotokim. You're stats are impressive, but just look at last year's board--3.9's+1570s were rejected. Nearly 1300 applied, 78 got in. If you maintain a 3.9+ for two years, I think you stand a good shot.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Another year may not help unless you are able to align your courses perfectly with Columbia course requirements. </p>
<p>You've done good hard work and should be proud of your 4.0. You might still get in, keep your fingers crossed...</p>