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because nowadays it just aint that hard to get a 2400 SAT or 4.0 GPA
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<p>That is a false statement if I've ever heard one. Go out and round up as many 2400 scorers as you can - they are far and few between. </p>
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There is NO chance. ZERO.
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<p>I'll choose to ignore this statement since you're new here. You haven't seen how many NYU students go on to HYPS. Go check with windcloudultra, for one. I believe he, a recent transfer to Harvard, was talking about the decent number of people they get from NYU.</p>
<p>According to probability theory there is always a chance i.e. nothing is impossible even when the probability of an occurrence is zero. Just to be technical. OP you have a reasonable chance and do not allow others to dissuade you otherwise.</p>
<p>someone brought up a good point earlier - when i apply to med schools, how will my gpa be calculated if i transfer? what if i want my chem and bio grades to count for it?
what is op?</p>
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i didn't ask u or anyone else, including laneb here, to judge my reasons
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<p>funny thing is that if you didnt ask anyone else to judge your reasons, why in the world would you post:
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so that i can somehow justify to them y i want to transfer
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everyone obviously knows that if you dont know which departments are good at columbia, you dont have a good reason to transfer. In fact, you dont even know yourself why you want to transfer except for prestige. </p>
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i have a very low efc and only ivies can give me enough financial aid to have it be affordable.
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<p>Not true. Many schools offer 100% of need-based aid for transfer students, such as amherst & williams college, USC, and even some public schools like: wisconsin and virginia.</p>
<p>Next time, do you, and everyone else, a favor by researching the schools you want to transfer to.</p>
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Not true. Many schools offer 100% of need-based aid for transfer students, such as amherst & williams college, USC, and even some public schools like: wisconsin and virginia.
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<p>Rice, Georgetown, WUSTL, and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>"someone brought up a good point earlier - when i apply to med schools, how will my gpa be calculated if i transfer? what if i want my chem and bio grades to count for it?
what is op?"</p>
<p>-- i am curious about this as well</p>
<p>btw... i have a 3.67 (premed/econ major) coming from asu and want to raise it to close to a 4.0 before applying and am additionally retaking my sats and taking two more sat iis. i plan on applying to all the ivys, gtown and stanford. do i not have a reasonable shot? i posted a thread on CC earlier and was told if i could raise my gpa to above a 3.8 and scored well on my sat i retake i'd be competative. now, after reading the discouraging replies to the OPs situation i am beginning to think otherwise.</p>
<p>I don't mean to come down on you, but I'm growing very tired of seeing so many people applying to "all the ivys." I can definitely see how irritating similar statements by myself in the past must have been. Just realize that when you say you are applying to "all the ivys, gtown and stanford," it probably raises mental questions from readers on this board like myself as to whether you have really researched each school thoroughly.</p>
<p>I understand applying to all of the ivies so you have a better chance (statistically) of getting in, but at schools where essays and reasons truly will make you or break you, I don't think you are improving your chances by applying to every ivy if you don't have detailed reasons for each one, which is much easier said than done.</p>
<p>OP, I believe people here were getting angry because you are someone applying from a good school saying already that you will be applying to Columbia although you don't really seem sure as to why. I think the mental process should be </p>
<p>1) Note schools that interest you
2) Thoroughly research them
3) Decide to apply</p>
<p>Not to be rude, but it is people like yourself that don't seem sure why they want to go somewhere that make me a bit more confident despite the low transfer rates at top schools (although I will admit I am victim to applying to 2 or 3 schools without the most pressing reasons, but I am not at a good school already.)</p>
<p>More like two questions foo! one which is valid and one which is totally irrational! I am typing on a keyboard not a magic wand, so i cant tell you your chances!</p>
<p>So then you do have great reasons for each school? It's a valid point and I'm merely trying to help you as you seem to be much like I was in the past. I guess I should keep my advice and you should go on applying blindly.</p>
<p>To answer your question, no, you do not have a very good shot at most ivies or Stanford with a 3.67 from ASU and no test scores as of the present. Raising your GPA to a 3.8+ is easier said than done. To put matters into perspective, using an excel sheet, I looked at the effect on my GPA depending on what grades I receive next semester. As of now, I have a 3.92. If I receive all A's in 17 credits (5 classes) it will only raise it to a 3.94: a difference of two hundredths of a point. You intend to raise yours more than a full point, and in a relatively short amount of time; it's possible, but you'll need to take a very full load and receive A's in practically everything.</p>
<p>To answer the med question, you can't pick and choose which grades are calculated into your major GPA. With every other graduate/professional program I've seen, you will send your transcript from each school and the organization will average it together to create one overall GPA. So every single grade you receive during your college career is relevant if you intend to continue past the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Brand 182 is right on the grades. Med school does have a very specific form to fill out that recalculates GPA from all grades ever received. So you would not leave your great grades( or not so great grades) behind you.</p>
<p>My college offers the A+ which counts as a 4.33. I only have 15 credits and am going to have 30 more before I apply for transfer. Thus, getting all As and an A+ or two each term I could easily get close to a 4.0.</p>
<p>a 4.0 on your scale might not mean a 4.0 on the transfer college's scale. I'm gonna assume that they reweight your grades accordingly. Of course they will see your A+'s on the transcript (assuming it's printed that way), but your GPA will be reweighted most likely</p>