<p>I applied to Georgetown the past year, got waitlisted then rejected. </p>
<p>Thinking about transfer applying to Gtown next year. What advice can you give me??
And do I stand good chances?</p>
<p>Assuming I get a GPA above 3.85 at Villanova U. </p>
<p>SAT score 2230
SAT 2 math 1c 740, US history 650, chem 790
Many hours of volunteer work-soup kitchen, nursing home, homeless shelter, service trip to latin american hospital to help with young kids with terminal illnesses.
Plan on joining student council, and joining many groups and activites at Nova.
HS GPA is 3.98 </p>
<p>Wont good grades and teacher recs from villanova look pretty good at geroegtwon considering, Boston College, Villanova, Holy Cross, and Notre Dame are all kind of academic catholic rivals?</p>
<p>Is no one really going to reply??</p>
<p>It is difficult to answer your question substantively. “Chancing” in the first place is a rather useless endeavor. You can look just as easily as any one of us at Georgetown’s transfer numbers to see where you fall. However, as a pre-frosh, you can only speculate to your colligate academic preformance, the key deciding factor in transfer admissions. Assuming that your GPA is higher than a 3.85, is a significant assumption. I think people would be much more willing to evaluate your chances after a semester at your university when the number is more concrete. As far as the benefit of transferring from another Catholic school, I would say the advantage is marginal at best. Villanova, though an excellent school, is much more a basketball rival than an a academic peer. Though you can speak to your love of a Jesuit education, which certainly can’t hurt you. So do the best you can at Nova and work to get to know your professors for recommendations. Finally, give Villanova a chance. Dont focus so much on getting in somewhere else that you miss the opportunities in front of you.</p>
<p>^Thanks for the advice! To an outsider it may seem a tall order to assume a gpa of 3.85 or greater, but I have already taken several college classes(while in high school) which essentially will be repeated first semester at villanova…So if I don’t get a 3.85 or above it will mean I learned nothing the past year in my college classes.</p>
<p>I’m confused…Why would you be repeating college courses you’ve already taken? This seems rather counter productive. Since you’re taking essentially the same courses, wouldn’t your college credit act like AP credit and either place you out of a similarly required course or allow you to move on to a more advanced level? </p>
<p>I’m sure you’re aware that Georgetown requires you to send in your college transcript from Villanova and any previously attended institutions to complete your transfer app. Aren’t you afraid that it might sound off alarm bells, to the admin. committee evaluating your transfer app., that you didn’t take the opportunity to stretch your intelectual boundries your 1st semester. (…especially since you were so driven in high school and have all these courses under your belt)</p>
<p>Some of the courses i will be taking are mandatory for freshman and you can only pass out of them by taking AP classes and not by dual enrolling in college classes…If I dont repeat classes I could graduate in fewer than four years, however i was not required to apply as a trasnfer student but rather as a freshman.</p>