The importance of GPA (Oh, you know you want to click)

Transfer Students
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<p>Hey:)
So, i just finished my first semester at a top-20 university & ended up with a 3.75 GPA. My high school unweighted gpa was a 3.5. I did go to a very tough high school and i took 9 ap courses, so i'm wondering how my college gpa will be looked at in relation to my high school. also, my sat score was 2030. i did ED to the school i'm at (bad mistake, lol). i am looking at the following schools, but i really want to limit my options to 3, maybe 4. i also need some matches or safeties. i looked into boston college.. could this be a good match?</p>

<p>UPenn
UChicago
Northwestern</p>

<p>this is for fall 2010.</p>

<p><strong>i need a LOT of finaid.</strong>
thanks guys:)</p>

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<p>3.75 is a good college gpa! I can’t believe how many people on this board think anything lower than a 4.0 is bad, college isn’t the same as hs. Anyway, sorry, side tracked. :P</p>

<p>Financial aid is very difficult to get as a transfer, much harder to get than when applying out of high school. I honestly have yet to hear of merit scholarships for transfers and need aid for transfers is extremely limited.</p>

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<p>thanks nyc2013 :slight_smile:
i guess i’ll have to try my luck /:</p>