<p>I just graduated high school and am attending SUNY Stony Brook in the fall, but I am already thinking about transferring. Ideally, I want to go to Cornell but I'm not so sure that my high school record or SAT scores will be good enough, as they follow you if you try to transfer for sophomore year.</p>
<p>I had an 83 gpa (let's just say I had a pretty rough high school life), however I did take AP classes, mostly honors classes and lots of electives through out the years.
My SAT scores were:
620 critical reading
620 writing
540 math</p>
<p>I realize the math is pretty low, and the others aren't exactly amazing, but I'm hoping that doing extremely well at Stony Brook will improve my chances.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>what school are you going to transfer into at cornell? </p>
<p>you'd probably have a better shot at something non-science/engineer</p>
<p>I had a 93 in HS....630 M, 620 V (pre-CR days) and I got into CALS Biology and Society. I also had a 4.0 GPA at my old college.</p>
<p>Your chances depend on the college/major. What you might also consider is waiting to transfer as a junior. Don't worry...you have options to improve your chances.</p>
<p>Ironically unsure, I am transferring from Stony, so if you have quest about the school and pre-med and such PM me.</p>
<p>I had around a 3.4 college GPA (close to your 83, I believe) with a 600 Writing, 660 Verbal, and 590 Math on the SAT. I went to a community college (not a GT) and made a 4.0, and transeferred into Cornell's biology program in CALS.</p>
<p>To make up for that SAT score you should either retake, or take some sort of math course at stony brook. The difficulty of which entirely depends on your major. You could and should also shoot for at least a 3.5+. It's hard to make fair assumptions though since we don't know which school you're applying to.</p>
<p>Getting a 3.5 at Stony is pretty easy. I knew ppl who got much lower GPAs and SAT scores and went to Stony. They partied, didn't really study and still managed to do well. So don't worry. Just don't take too many difficult classes overall in 1 term and speak to ppl about how hard the classes are.</p>
<p>If you are a NY resident and you are not applying to an endowed college and you're not applying to AEM or any other program that is extremely hard to get into freshman year. Cornell seems to disregard your SAT score and focus on your GPA. All the transfers I met had at least a 3.8 in their prior school. So if you can meet that, then you'll have a good chance.</p>