<p>Hi, I was hoping I could get some suggestions for possible match/slight reach schools for transferring. I am currently a freshman at WUSTL, and I will be looking to transfer in the Fall of 2007 as a chemistry/biochemistry major. My stats are:</p>
<p>White Male
College GPA: 3.67 (Confident that I can improve on this dramatically next sesmter - First round of college tests caught me off guard and I had to play catch-up all semester)
HS GPA: 3.9ish</p>
<p>SAT1: Math 790, CR 680, W 690
SAT2: Chem 800, Math2 790, Math1 760
AP: Chem 5, Statistics 5, Calc BC 5</p>
<p>HS EC's: Varsity football (3 letters) and varsity track, 3-time area All-Academic Team for football, Editor-in-chief for national award-winning yearbook, Youth football coach, NHS</p>
<p>College EC's: Varsity Football, Calculus tutoring, Full-time cancer lab work in the summer, Part-time cancer lab work in the school year</p>
<p>I am hoping to transfer to to a non-large public school in the Northeast (I plan to continue playing varsity football, and I'm not quite sure I could make much of an impact at Ohio State, etc.). I would also like the strength of academics to be comparable to that of WUSTL.</p>
<p>I would greatly appreciate any ideas of schools to start researching. Also, will my 2nd semester grades be available for my application? I am certain that I can raise my GPA this spring, and this may open the possibility of being able to consider some of the more selective schools in the Northeast.</p>
<p>I'm having trouble coming up with non-large public schools in the Northeast with academics comparable to WUSTL. The "common wisdom" is that the Northeast tends to lack the strong publics you find elsewhere due to the strong tradition and large numbers of top privates. So...What do you mean by non-large? And by "Northeast"? </p>
<p>That said, how about Rutgers ;)? UVM? UNH?</p>
<p>If you will consider privates, how about Lehigh?</p>
<p>And, no, your second semester grades will not be available by the March app dates for most schools. However, your current GPA is quite nice for any school and some schools will ask for mid-term estimates of your grades.</p>
<p>By Northeast I was thinking Pennsylvania and upwards, as that's where my family is scattered throughout. I won't toss out private schools, and I might look into more information about Lehigh. Another one that caught my eye was CMU, any thoughts/other suggestions?</p>
<p>Hmm...it's ultimately your decision and dependent on what will make you happy, but I wouldn't go from WashU to a public university in the Northeast. No matter what, from what I can think of, you will be downgrading. </p>
<p>I would stick to privates. Why not try for UPenn?</p>
<p>A situation came up that I think it's important that I go somewhere closer to my family, who live in central PA, and I want to be within reasonable driving distance (15 hours from St.Louis is a trek for a weekend). My extended relatives live throughout the Northeast as well.</p>
<p>Why did you first focus on publics - what about them appeals? What is your financing-college picture? Will you get need-based aid/won't need aid/need merit aid? That would affect my suggestions a lot.</p>
<p>That said, some places in the Northeast that might work for someone wanting strong academics, that are not "too" small and not too big and where you might be able to walk on in football: Johns Hopkins, UMd-College Park (honors)-but I don't know re the football, GWU, Villanova, Penn, Lehigh, Bucknell, Carnegie Mellon (do they have football, IDK), Trinity (CT), Tufts, Brandeis, Rutgers, UVM, UNH.</p>
<p>Ohio schools might work for you, too, geographically but I don't happen to know them as well; perhaps Case Western?</p>
<p>I was actually recruited by many of those schools out of high school for football, so that won't be the problem. I went on football recruiting visits to Bucknell, Penn, and Carnegie Mellon last year, and I liked CMU and Penn a lot. The issue that arises is, after posting pretty mediocre grades this semester, whether or not I can get in.</p>