<p>I mentioned a while back that I was trying to transfer college/universities to somewhere with more opportunity in my fields, combined with the fact that I wasn't too crazy about my current school to begin with for a variety of other reasons. However , despite the fact for my 1st and 2nd semesters of college I had a solid gpa and excellent grades for a freshman, I find myself yet again denied from everywhere I applied.</p>
<p>Even though I had somewhat medicore grades and test scores in high school, this is ridiculous especially considering the fact that I finished my first year of college with a 3.7 GPA, took a well rounded course load, and had a well rounded and extensive extracurricular record!</p>
<p>Sorry if this is too much a vent but I'm just p*issed at the moment.</p>
<p>All it means it that there were other transfers the schools wanted a bit more than they wanted you; nothing more. The schools don’t mean it personally, so don’t take it personally.</p>
<p>I just hate being at my current college, and I’ve spent every waking second of my first year trying to get into a better institution. In the process, I accomplished more in one year then most students a my college and perhaps to many to colleges I applied, accomplish in the whole four years of being there!</p>
<p>Like I said I have a 3.7 GPA with an overall strong record with very strong recommendations, and I’m in good academic standing at my current college. However, like I also said I have a poor academic record from high school due to a learning disability in mathematics which left me with a 2.5 high school GPA and a 19 on the ACT. Despite this I’m proud of my accomplishments thus far at college, which is why when I want to transfer I’m surprised to find myself yet again declined to other institutions and the admissions officers at these schools don’t seem to be giving me a definitive answer as to why I was declined.</p>
<p>To give some info I currently attend Shepherd University in West Virginia if that my have anything to do with all of this.</p>
<p>I applied to the following schools to transfer,</p>
<p>Gettysburg College(First choice in high school and college) (Waitlisted in high school application process, denied in college transfer process)</p>
<p>James Madison University(Denied)</p>
<p>University of Mary Washington(Denied)</p>
<p>VMI(Waitlisted)</p>
<p>George Mason University(Awaiting final decision, but given how everything is going I’m predicting a denial for the 2nd time)</p>
<p>UVA(Denied)</p>
<p>UVA was a stretch, but I should have gotten into every other school listed.</p>
<p>They all asked for high school transcripts when transferring, however they asked this for second year transfer students also and seemed more a part of procedure for many of the places I applied to rather then something that was going to be considered seriously.</p>
<p>Did all the colleges get to see your 2nd semester grades before they made their decisions? I take it from your other threads that your 1st semester GPA was not as strong?</p>
<p>You picked a bunch of out-of-state public schools; that might have been a factor. Transfer admissions are, as you know, difficult things and I know that JMU, GMU, UMW, and UVA take the largest portion of their transfer admissions from their in-state community college partners.</p>
<p>Last year, Gettysburg accepted 36 of 144 transfer applicants.
The admit rate for transfers was only 25% (compared to 40% for 1st time admissions).</p>
<p>However, I am in-state resident of Virginia. My parents just demanded that I go to my current institution at least for a year despite my wishes.</p>
<p>Since you only have one year of school in, that’s what has hurt you. Many schools look at high school grades when you only have 1 year of college in.</p>
<p>How many credits did you have this year?</p>
<p>there are probably some other schools that will accept you. What is your budget? How much will your parents pay?</p>
<p>Yes I guess they did look at my high school grades, however they all requested only the transcripts for my last semester of high school and my grades for the last semester where fairly good. In terms of the number of credits I took for my first year of college, I took 15 for my 1st semester and 16 for my 2nd semester and did very well for both semesters, and in the process took more credits then the average college freshman. Also my budget is pretty flexible as long as some of the more expensive schools offer good financial aid, if you can make any recommendations of schools that have good academics, are selective, but take a good number of transfers?</p>
<p>Not to be offensive, but dude, you got a 3.7 at an off-the-radar college and you got a 19 on your ACT. You shouldn’t have expected to get in anywhere as a transfer. If I saw that transcript I would’ve rejected you too. Maybe if you can get a 4.0 in your second year in difficult classes, you’ll have a better chance at those schools. After that high school record, you really need to show colleges that you’ve turned over a new leaf. One year of pretty good grades isn’t enough.</p>
<p>Actually, finishing the year with 31 credits is rather expected. It takes 30 credits to be a sophomore, so you did what is normal.</p>
<p>*Also my budget is pretty flexible as long as some of the more expensive schools offer good financial aid, if you can make any recommendations of schools that have good academics, are selective, but take a good number of transfers? *</p>
<p>If you need financial aid, then you’ll have to stick with your instate publics. OOS publics don’t give much aid to OOS students. </p>
<p>And, privates that give good aid to transfers are probably going to want to see that you’ve completed more than 31 credits. Not a lot of schools give good aid to transfer students.</p>
<p>How much are you paying at your present school? </p>
<p>How much will your parents pay each year?</p>
<p>Since FA is not something you can count on as a transfer student, we need to know how much your parents will pay.</p>
<p>One year is a but short to make your high school gpa less important. Continue a bit longer and try to do some worthwhile EC activities. You mentioned your learning abilities - do some volunteer work with elementary and middle school kids to help them as you should have been helped. Do some research on what is available in aid in your community, write it up and get it to the parents of these students. Your experience is important , you can make that into a difference for others and use it as a selling point next time you apply for transfers. it also will put more of an emphasis on why your GA was not higher.</p>
<p>What does it matter that my current school is “off the radar”, as long as it is an accredited institution that is an actual college that I did well at? Btw my current college is fairly well known in my region of Washington DC/Maryland, you don’t even live anywhere near the region and you are also only in your first year so I wouldn’t be talking.</p>
<p>I’m a resident of Virginia and at my current school which is in West Virginia my family is paying upwards of $22,000 a year, next year though due to budget cuts and tuition hikes on out of state students my parents are going to be paying upwards of $30,000. This is one of the reasons I want out of my current institution is that they are cutting oppertunites for me in terms of my fields and I find it outrageous to pay this institution when I’m not getting the education I want.</p>
<p>Btw my parents are college educated and are in the upper-income percentile, however my Dad is approaching retirement age and he has another child to send through higher education.</p>
<p>Since your parents are high income, you wouldn’t likely get any aid anyway, so you need to only consider schools that your parents can pay for. </p>
<p>Financial aid is based on need, and it sounds like you don’t have need.</p>
<p>What is your major?</p>
<p>Do you have any geographical limitations? </p>
<p>What else do you want in a school?</p>
<p>*if you can make any recommendations of schools that have good academics, are selective, but take a good number of transfers? *</p>
<p>Answer the above, and then we can make some suggestions.</p>