Transfer chances?

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<p>I'm looking to transfer to SBU for either the Fall 2011 or 2012 semester, depending on how the next semester goes here.</p>

<p>I'm currently at Suffolk County Community College.
I'm majoring in Liberal Arts: Social Studies with a psychology concentration.
I have the intention of majoring in psychology and social studies education after I transfer.</p>

<p>HS Stats:
GPA: 3.7
APs: World History, English Language, English Literature, Music Theory, Calculus AB
Also took SUPA Sociology and passed with a 91.
SAT: 1880/2400
ACT: 29
ECs: chorus (4 years), chamber choir (2 years), musical (3 years, 1 year acting, 2 years orchestra violinist), french club (3 years), NHS, NYSSMA (8 years), HMEA Hamptons Music Educators Association (2 years), All-County Choir (1 year)</p>

<p>Fall 2010:
ENG 205 (Contemporary Lit.), MAT 103 (Honors Statistics I), MAT 141 (Calculus I) [I retook this so I wouldn't forget everything by the time I take Calc II], ECO 112 (Microeconomics), PSY 101 (Intro. Psy.)
I don't have any official grades for this semester, but I'm passing everything with a 90+, except for calculus, which I have an 82 =. GPA is approx. an 89.</p>

<p>So I have a few questions:
1) What does my acceptance probability look like?
2) If I decide to stay at SCCC through Spring 2012, I'll have to apply to the 5-year BA/MA Social Studies Ed program that summer. What do my chances look like for that?
and 3) Is the Social Studies Ed program an actual major? Or is it just a concentration? For example, since I want to major in psychology as well, will that mean I have to major in psychology, history, AND social studies education? Or just psychology and history with a SS Ed concentration?</p>

<p>Thanks :D</p>

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<p>You shouldn’t have a problem with transferring, just keep your GPA above 3.0 (B). Also, there isn’t a social studies education major. If you’re studying a social science, you and go into a program which prepares you to teach. I also don’t think that there’s a combined BA/MA for Psychology, but I could be wrong.</p>

<p>Just to note, with psychology at Stony Brook, you have a choice of either pursuing a BA or a BS. You shouldn’t have a problem handling a BA in Psychology and History, but the BS requires much more credits than the BA, and they’re usually hard credits.</p>