Transfer College Help

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<p>I have a poor high school GPA: a 3.01. I also have only an okay SAT score, 1820. I am very involved in extra circulars. I am president of 2 clubs, vice president of another, am involved in a photo club, yearbook, have a representative leadership position in my school student council, am enrolled in mostly AP courses (8 by the end of HS; also the reason for having a lower GPA), interned at Microsoft.</p>

<p>Every college I've applied to, I've been accepted to, but I did not apply to as many reach schools as I wanted. I plan to major in Computer Science and Physics. I have been accepted to Chapman, SCAD, UT Dallas, and Concordia University. I am still waiting to hear from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, and USC. Currently, </p>

<p>Where ever I end up going, I plan on applying as a transfer to Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford. I want to end up at a top University. Provided I do very well in my first year at university and get a 4.0 GPA, will I be able to achieve my goal of transferring to a top university Sophomore year?</p>

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<p>Berkeley and other state universities in California prefer community college transfer applicants who are ready to enter as juniors and declare their majors. Use [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) to see what courses you will need to transfer in your major at state universities in California.</p>

<p>Some of the super-selective private schools accept very few transfer students, so do not get your hopes up too high.</p>

<p>If you do manage to get into UCSC, that school has a good reputation for physics, and its location close to Silicon Valley computer companies should be helpful for being recruited as a CS major. Be happy if you can go there.</p>