<p>I didn’t even bother looking at my high school transcripts. My weighted GPA is in the 2.6-3.0 range, who knows. SAT score of 1120 (took it one and never prepped).</p>
<p>Changed a lot in college; I have a 3.88 with 52 credits. Just got accepted to Ohio State-Columbus and NC State this week. Now I’m waiting on UNC, which is my dream school. Crossing my fingers to get in but I won’t be upset in Columbus. I’m a huge football fan after all!</p>
<p>^ If you have time in your hands, you should try giving the SAT another shot. You never know how well you could do. Some kids who got out of HS, retook it, and received a 2100-2300.</p>
<p>i’m currently a HS junior
my gpa isn’t the best, at a 2.7ish
but i have a load of activities (track and field,captain of the football, math club,haitian culture club, and much more)</p>
<p>i’d really like to go to penn state upark or notre dame
how possible is that</p>
<p>^ as a transfer? just work hard during college and you will have a chance :)</p>
<p>WHoA WHOA WhoA… CORNElL!!! don’t they look at high school grades?
I know so many people rejected with 3.9’s!!! and they were applying as incoming FRESMENS! Wow either I don’t believe that at all or I really congratulate you.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be rude, so congratulations!</p>
<p>My high school GPA was between 2.3-2.5. However I still finished in the top 50%, since I went to a terrible, terrible, terrible, high school. I was only part of two clubs, no sports, and my SAT was only a 1500.</p>
<p>I’m now a freshman at Kean University in NJ, and I’m going to try to get a perfect GPA, and join a ton of clubs, so I can apply to a bunch of top 50 schools.</p>
<p>I’ll keep you guys posted on how everything turns out.</p>
<p>Well its much harder to transfer to a top college with only 1 year worth of credits vs 2 years worth of credits. I had a 2.9 in HS, 3.95 in 2 years at community college, and now at Vanderbilt. Anythings possible.</p>
<p>HS gpa was a 2.07, NO SAT score cuz i didnt take the sat…</p>
<p>now at USC with a 3.88 GPA</p>
<p>Highschool gpa is 78.something on 4.0 scale would be around 2.3. Applied to only two colleges Wayne state university in Michigan and kingsborough community college in new York. November sat was in the 1,000’s December sat was not in the 1,000’s. I’m scared I won’t get into Wayne state on my first shot. So I’ll have to do CC and transfer. I need a minimum of 2.0 gpa and 12 " transferable " credits. Can I get this done in one semester?</p>
<p>I had a 2.6 gpa in hs and had a lot of trouble with the law/expulsion. Now I am at a comm. college with a 3.9 gpa after 90+ credits. Ive already been accepted to a few good engineering schools like UMD, GaTech, still waiting on UT and UMich. I never would have thought I could get in to any of these schools after all my high school troubles. Just do good in college and prove to them youve changed.</p>
<p>I wanted to apply to some of the higher elite schools just for kicks, but I never took the SATs.</p>
<p>Wow, you’re givin me some hope here… I did HORRIBLY in high school, didn’t even finish (got pregnant at sixteen, dropped out to work and help family, etc.), and at eighteen got three misdemeanors on my record. Now I’m at a CC with a 4.0 after 2 years plus a bunch of awesome EC’s, so I applied to some great schools, but I’ve been scared to death this whole time that my record from eight freakin years ago will get me turned away automatically…so you’re saying this may not be the case? (fingers crossed, fingers crossed…)</p>
<p>High school:
3.4 unweighted (school doesn’t weight GPA’s), took at least 1 Honors/AP every year. Considering my school offers a total of 4 AP’s (BULL#$!%) this is normal.</p>
<p>SAT’s: 1990 (690M, 650W, 650CR)</p>
<p>Activities: GSA, mentor to incoming freshmen, math team, round-table facilitator, one-act play.</p>
<h2>Athletics: 11 varsity letters (3 in X-C running, 3 in X-C skiing, 3 in outdoor track, 1 in indoor track, 1 in lacrosse.) High school’s senior athlete of the year, all-conference 1st team in x-c, placed 4th at state x-c ski championships (team won state title.)</h2>
<p>College (freshman)
3.73 for 1st semester; have A’s in 4 classes, 1 B+.</p>
<p>Activities: Sports editor of the newspaper, write articles for athletics website, participated in leadership program, attended workshop on sustained dialogue, work 8 hours/week in work-study program.</p>
<h2>Athletics: Member of varsity x-c team; team won the conference title and placed in the top half at our regional meet.</h2>
<p>I’m applying to quite a few schools (BC, Brandeis, Clark, Goucher, Hamilton, Lafayette, Northeastern, NYU, Union.) All but two of these have less than 50% acceptance rates. What do you think my chances are? I’ve taken on more extracurriculars and shown academic growth at a rapidly growing private university and I’d like to think that college admissions officers would see this.</p>
<p>Hi ironicallyunsure, did you get much financial aid as a transfer? Because I heard Cornell is not quite generous.</p>
<p>I am a high school senior who plans on transferring. I was a B/B+ student in high school, taking mainly Honors classes and several AP classes. I unwittingly let some traumatic events in my life impact my grades, hence, the low GPA. I also scored a 29 on the ACT’s.</p>
<p>I am going to attend a Top 100 state flagship in the Fall but it is not my top choice and there are better options for my major.</p>
<p>I hope my weak high school record will not make a huge impact on my transfer.</p>
<p>I had a 2.36 HS GPA, have a 4.0 as a freshman and accepted into Northeastern so far (a few other “safety” schools as well). Have yet to hear from BU and American University</p>
<p>My high school GPA upon graduation was a 2.1. I went through phases of substance abuse and went to prison a couple of times. I attended a CC and studied sociology where I was able to look at my life in retrospect–the factors that were against me given my socioeconomic status, the high school a went too, and resources that i didn’t have. </p>
<p>I am finishing up my second year at a CC and getting ready to transfer. My GPA now is a 3.85. I’ve got accepted to CSULB and SFSU. Before, I never thought I can come so far and now I am waiting on a response from UCB and UCSD. My major is Ethnic Studies and Communications. My passion that drives me to succeed academically now is my family and my community.</p>
<p>Ooh, I wish I had seen this thread around the time I was I graduated, I imagine this would’ve boosted my morale to some extent… I actually graduated with a 2.05UW/2.12W with an approximate 1500 SAT score. Long story short, I had no motivation to go to school, I was a lazy and careless, and I felt like I had no control over my education. During my last semester of high school I was literally 15 credits behind graduating; luckily I was able to make it up through community service but I was definitely far from doing OK (academics wise). The whole ordeal ended up giving me quite the slap in the face, and that’s when I realized I had to make a change. Following graduation I signed up for the local CCC and put my best effort into getting decent grades. I am now in my second year with 3.71~3.78 GPA(depending on what school is looking at it) and I’m in the process of transferring to either CalPoly Pomona or USC with an architecture major. So far I’ve gotten admitted into CPP and I’m still waiting in USC :)</p>
<p>Congratulations.</p>
<p>Bump. Any more inspirational stories to give hope to poor high school students?</p>
<p>@nontradtransfer: congrats and welcome. My DH started out flipping burgers and digging ditches, then spent a couple years at community college, transferred to UM, went on to get a PhD at Stanford, and is now a tenured professor here at UM (I’m on the faculty as well). </p>
<p>Great things can happen!</p>