<p>High School Stats:
32 ACT
Top 5% High School
3.5 UW GPA
Many CS Hours, IB program, Founder/President of Model UN, Many officer positions in clubs
African-American</p>
<p>College Stats
Many Clubs, Officer positions in 3, Internship at IBank
15 Credits
First Semester GPA: (2.4) [The Killer]
Classes:
Principles of Economics
Literature Humanities
Calculus I
Frontiers of Science</p>
<p>Second Semester GPA was higher, 3.1, 17 Credits but doesn't matter because the schools I'm applying to don't ask for midyear report.</p>
<p>Basically My College GPA is really low. I can explain in the 'why transfer' essay that it's because I'm from a really small town in New Mexico, and coming to NYC adjusting to life was too difficult and I got caught up with all the events of the city, along with it being very hard to get by due to financial problems (I'm on full financial aid) I just need to get out of this city, because I feel I'm just not used to studying in such a fast paced enviroment.</p>
<p>Colleges I'm applying to for transfer:
Northwestern
Emory
UChicago (Sent)
UMaryland College Park
OSU
Tulane</p>
<p>Any chances would be appreciated. Also any suggestions for schools would be appreciated. I know it's really late to be applying to transfer, but I have to get out of here. Thanks.</p>
<p>You certainly have a chance of getting a transfer. The colleges you mentioned will make it a bit hard though.</p>
<p>Personally, I recommend going to a community college that’s in a town you’re comfortable in. They are MUCH cheaper, and I mean by thousands of dollars. You wouldn’t have to worry about getting accepted, as they will take nearly anyone. After you complete some courses with good grades, you can easily transfer to a school on your list.</p>
<p>I am going to a community college right now simply because of the cost (I am trying to transfer). I have met numerous people there that were in your situation and are going there to recover. Many have been successful.</p>
<p>just so you know if you do end up transferring, down the road when you’re looking for work you will need to put GPA’s from all colleges attended so it might look like:</p>
<p>columbia: 2.6</p>
<p>im not sure of your reasons for wanting to transfer but you mentioned banking, columbia is a target school with prime location. i would stick there.</p>
<p>I’m not sure why it would be helpful to go from Columbia University, one of the top 10 schools in the country, to a community college. Yes you did poorly the first semester, but you have 3 more years at that school, many many more classes and opportunities to bring your GPA up.
Coming from Columbia gives you a lot of credit to adcoms, the courses were obviously very rigorous. If possible I would advise staying there one more term and applying for a midyear transfer in soph year. UChicago and Northwestern will be reaches (they’re both in cities, though, so I’m not sure how that would help change the NYC problem). UMD I still think you have a very good shot at, not too sure about the others, but if you can pull your grades up this term and fall term you should stand a very good chance.</p>
<p>I think that being in New York City is a terrible and a wonderful place to be in school. On one hand, you have so many opportunities and resources at your fingertips, but on the other hand (the kicker which is possibly moving me out of NYC), you get lost in it all. It’s distracting and difficult to make solid friends, and every single person I have met in NYC is competitive to the extreme. Columbia is a very difficult school grading-wise, true, but you brought your grades up significantly your second semester. I really think that if you stay at Columbia you will have great job opportunities, especially if you continue to show improvement, without even getting a graduate degree. On the other hand, I understand the need to get out of the pressure of the college and of the city, so transferring to a low-key school might make you happier.</p>