<p>This sounds incredibly awkward but I guess I'm really asking how to use this next year to package myself most attractively for transfer admission for Spring '07.</p>
<p>I was kind of a terrible and immature high school student, never went to class, graduated with a 3.6 GPA (unweighted, no idea about weighted) and a 30 ACT. Most of my poor grades are in classes like sophmore health where I just did nothing. I took the hardest curriculum and did well in my difficult classes (5's on AP Eng Lit, Art Hist, US Gov, 4's on Physics, Stats, French Lit). I spent most of my HS time doing extracurriculars:</p>
<p>significant acting roles in at least 4 plays/year
state finalist in several team and individual events with Business Professionals of America
studio art with 2 gallery showings
summer PreCollege in Studio Art @ Pratt Institute
Legislative Internship in the state senate
worked @ least 15 hrs/week since Dec of sophmore year
2 films shown in East Lansing Children's Film Festival,
recipient of Girl's in Film Award
finalist in Wharton Center Young Playwrights Festival</p>
<p>Upon graduating high school, I enrolled as a Costume Design major at The Theatre School at DePaul University its a really selective program but I hated it. Art was something I did in high school because I didn't think I was smart enough to do anything else. I was wrong. I found my costume classes very under-stimulating and a service oriented class really got me thinking. I want to pursue medicine. I left DePaul (with v. good grades) after first quarter and will be going to Community College next semester. I'd like to take spring, summer and fall classes and transfer in in January. Is it at all harder to get in in the middle of the year? My first choice is Smith and then Wellesley and MHC, if I can't get in to any of them I'll go to Michigan State. Its funny, my mom went to Wellesley so out of rebellion I always thought "No way!" but now I see the benefits a women's college can offer and it really is where I need and want to be. </p>
<p>This semester I'm taking Honors Writing II, College Algebra and Trig, General Chem and Psychology but I'm not sure what I should take during the summer and fall. I'm also not sure how to get involved with extracurriculars while in Community College starting second semester. I'm looking for health and research related volunteer opportunities and my friend thinks she knows how we can tutor refugee children which would be really fun/rewarding but i'm not sure what's going on with that. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>I forgot, I'm also considering re-taking the ACT (mine didn't have writing so I might have to, I can't find an answer on that) I know I had a very respectable score but I didn't study at all for it and I think if I studied and retook it it might show my new dedication to academic learning?</p>
<p>I found out on Friday that I was admitted to Wellesley as a transfer starting this spring, so I'll explain some of the elements of my application. I had pretty good grades in high school and took AP/Honors classes- but I don't know if they would have been good enough to get me into Wellesley. I was fairly invovled in activities in high school as well- I did plays, wrote for the school newspaper (and was eventually made an editor), and student taught a sophomore English class in my senior year. I enrolled at George Washington University and came out of my freshman year with a 3.9 GPA. During that year, I became a weekly columnist for a campus newspaper, got active in the GW Democrats, and gained admission to the GW Honors Program. I spent last summer as the editorial intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. This semester, I had my professors fill out a projected grade form (which I got from the Boston College Application, where I was also admitted) and sent it into Wellesley with my probable grades for this semester (strait As) and comments from my professors. I am fairly certain that I had very good recommendations and I spent a good deal of time perfecting my essays. I think that essays and recommendations are weighted with more importance at Wellesley than they are at other schools. I also visited the Wellesley campus to have an interview with an admissions officer and sat in on an English class. </p>
<p>Good luck with your application and I hope that this helps!</p>
<p>Thanks so much, that was actually really, really helpful and <strong>congratulations</strong>on Wellesley! That's so exciting. If you don't mind, what classes did you take @ GW that are transferring? And on an entirely unrelated note, your internship @ MCA sounds amazing, I miss Chicago museums already :) Thanks a lot</p>
<p>Actually, I was really lucky with Wellesley- all of my classes transferred and I didn't lose any credit. I took mostly English classes, two Logic classes (these are usually taught through the philosophy department, though many schools will accept them for "quantitative reasoning" credit instead taking a math class), an Astronomy course with a lab (though "astronomy" here is actually a division of the Physics department), a Criminal Justice course, a History course called "European Intellectual History", and an Art History course on Renaissance Art. I also randomly took a tennis class this semester but I don't know if that really made an difference. All of the courses that were not English courses were taken to fulfill requirements. The English courses that I took were mostly standard, i.e., two courses in Medieval lit, a course in 18th Century British Lit, Irish Lit, a year-long survey course in British Literature, Shakespere, Creative writing, etc. I think it is best to pick courses that are not too specialized, because it reduces the chances that Wellesley is going to have something comparable. You can even go on to the Wellesley website and look at the courses that they offer and then pick your courses based on what they have. Some of my classes even had the same titles as the ones at Wellesley. I have heard that Wellesley can be really tough about accepting classes from other schools (I was fully expecting to lose some credit)- but with offerings like Wintersession and summer school I bet you won't have any trouble making stuff up if you have to.</p>