<p>I'm hoping to get into the B-schools at most schools, but at Michigan and ND, I'm trying to get into LSA. </p>
<p>Me:
- black male
- Michigan resident</p>
<p>High school:
-3.7 gpa
- captain for both basketball and soccer
- low ACT score-- 21. I only took it once because I got in to every college out of high school because I was recruited for basketball and soccer. However, they were all small D-3 schools. </p>
<p>Volunteer service:
- Alter boy for ten years.
- started a basketball team for homeschoolers to compete against both private and public schools. We had three teams last year(freshman, JV, and Varsity).
- volunteer at public school every week to mentor</p>
<p>2nd semester classes/grade- 4 credit classes
Calculus/ 3.0
Micro economics/ 3.7
History since 1877/ 4.0
English/ 3.0 </p>
<p>Summer classes at Community College- 3 credit classes
Sociology/ 4.0 (prediction)
Macro Economics/ 4.0 (prediction)</p>
<p>Activities in College:
- College republicans
- IM basketball
- IM football
- Continue to work on the basketball teams I started(helping coach, find games, gyms, refs... ect)
- IM soccer
- I also worked out of with the basketball team for about two months before getting cut.</p>
<p>hey man- just try and get a really good G.P.A next semester- also try and take tough courses(honors or 400 level courses). Get to know your professors really well so they can write you excellent recs. You have a couple of things working in your favor(black & athlete).</p>
<p>some of those schools don't accept transfers for the winter semester.
Michigan - match for LSA
USC - match
Villanova - reach
Georgetown - high reach
Notre Dame - not familiar with ND
WUSTL - high reach
Emory - high reach
UNC - reach
Lehigh - not familiar
Wake Forest - not familiar</p>
<p>you really need to increase your gpa. if you end up pulling a 4.0 for your summer courses and the fall semester, i don't see why you won't have a good chance for a lot of the schools.</p>
<p>I've said it before and I'll say it again: I think there is a mistaken overemphasis on the 4.0 as a necessity for transfer here on cc ;). I don't think you need it. Not at all. Nor do I think you should focus on it. I do think you would be safer to get that GPA up to a 3.5. Some schools have an official or unofficial cut-off at that level. </p>
<p>Many schools do not take transfers for spring term (ie, starting January, which is what I'm guessing you mean when you say winter). You'd have to look school-by-school at each website, but it's not common. So you may want to focus on Fall 08 transfer as a Junior.</p>
<p>I don't really know enough about transfer acceptance rates into bus majors at those schools. If you definitely want to transfer, you might want to add a couple in the "safer" range. If you'd be content to stay where you are if you don't get a yes from your current list, than that becomes your safety.</p>
<p>I think you have a lot going for you as long as you have two good potential prof recs <em>and</em> as long as you choose your next two terms' courseloads carefully. What you want to do is look at the recommended curriculum at your target schools for students in bus majors (or hoping for an internal transfer into the b-school at their uni) and come as close as possible to taking that courseload.</p>
<p>I love love love your EC of starting a homeschool bball team to compete with local schools. Fills a real need. (Won't it be great if you get someone like me on the admissions committees ;)?) </p>
<p>Why do you want to transfer? Will your athletics help you at any of those schools, or do you not plan to play other than IM?</p>
<p>i think if you pull up your gpa a bit, you're definately a match for USC and Michigan. i don't know you personally, but from what i read, it seems like you would fit in at those schools. good luck!</p>
<p>I just want to echo Andale. A friend got into Brown this year with somewhere around a 3.5 (I can't recall exactly where it was after her final grades came in, but I know she had a "C" her final semester), and someone else from my college got into Amherst last year with a 3.6. A 4.0 is not necessary.</p>
<p>AJw13: why aren't you going back to the LAC? isn't it true that courses taken at community colleges are seen as less rigorous/competitive than that in a LAC? would this be viewed as a negative in the Adcom's point of view?</p>
<p>Yeah, I decided since I was sure I wanted to transfer to a larger school that I might as well go to community college and save some money. </p>
<p>However, the classes at CC are much easier and I worry if it is going to hurt my chances, since I already transferred once. Can anyone shed some light on whether or not this is true? </p>
<p>Has anyone ever done something similar to this?</p>