Transfer from VT! HELP!

<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I'm highly considering transferring from Virginia Tech to perhaps UVA or Cornell next fall semester. I'm currently a FRESHMAN and planning to apply for the FALL 2010 TERM</p>

<p>But..</p>

<p>If my GPA is a 3.6 by the end of the spring semester at a college like Virginia Tech, what are my chances of getting in to any of these schools? I'm going to have a few clubs and possibly some really good recommendation letters... but since it's only my freshman year, i haven't done anything OUTSTANDING..</p>

<p>In high school, my GPA was a 4.7 weighted and i had pretty good SAT scores
I also had a loooong list of EC's and research work</p>

<p>I was waitlisted to Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Columbia and eventually got into one of them...but decided i couldnt go bc of the cost</p>

<p>SO, i had to end up going to VT but i'm kind of worried about my GPA...</p>

<p>What are my chances??</p>

<p>If Cornell was the school you got into, then your chances for admission as a transfer are good, especially since Cornell is relatively transfer-friendly to begin with. While your GPA is indeed a little low, you should still apply and work to raise it next semester.</p>

<p>^^ i think that will depend a lot on the OP’s major. what’s your major going to be? and what college are you going to be applying to within cornell?</p>

<p>^ i plan to apply to College of Agriculture and Life sciences for bio major</p>

<p>& no…cornell wasn’t the college i got into, it was Johns Hopkins
but, if i got waitlisted, would that still give me a good chance?</p>

<p>if you’re not pre-med, then i’d say definitely apply but make sure your essays focus on why you want to be in CALS’s bio major instead of any of the others. </p>

<p>jhu doesn’t take that many transfers, so i don’t think it would matter. it just means that you were competitive as a freshman applicant.</p>

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<p>…which probably means that, provided he/she didn’t screw up so far in college, he/she is just as, if not more, competitive now.</p>

<p>So yes, it does matter.</p>