<p>nspeds, do you mean applying to get in as a sophmore, as sophmores applying to get in as juniors. B/c if you meant the first thing I said, you are not correct, b/c they will not base one semester on a hit or miss, your high school record is just as important. I mean ur first semester is still very important, but not the be all or end all.</p>
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<p>I meant the former; it is difficult to declare me as incorrect, for your argument is a generalization: it assumes that all universities weigh equally the high school and college transcript. </p>
<p>However, my conversation with adcoms runs contrary to that claim. The preponderance of schools in the Top 25 give more weight to the college transcript for all transfers, and the importance of the high school transcript decreases as the student completes more courses. </p>
<p>Now what I argue could have a number of implications: it could mean that the college transcript is barely more important than the high school, or it could mean that the discrepancy in importance is significant. From what I gathered, the importance of the high school transcript is almost as important as that of the college, but never more.</p>
<p>I just love when nspeds does that.</p>
<p>So if I'm transferring from a top LAC to a large state college, they're ALMOST equal?</p>
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<p>It depends on the school. The University of Texas - Austin, for instance, discards the SAT score and high school transcript, provided that you have completed 24 hours by the date of matriculation; however, one admissions officer at UT claimed that the GPA cutoff was a 3.6.</p>
<p>My previous post about transcript weightings was oriented toward Top 25 schools, where the average SAT score and GPA of entering freshman are typically higher and more competitive than that of most large state schools.</p>
<p>Ilove, in the words of one very wise sage I once knew -- "persons have sex, and they suck thumbs, and they love stickers, they all get on with life."</p>
<p>The truth is, this is more common than not...the rigorous entrance requirements are directed more for freshmen entering right out of HS. Once you have established a college GPA, your HS means that much less. </p>
<p>To the OP's inspiring experience: Congrats to you, Northwestern should serve you well.</p>
<p>And once again, proof that HS is not the end all, be all. People change, grow up at their own pace, and LIFE'S NOT A RACE! Enjoy.</p>
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<p>Once again, it depends on how much college-work you have completed.</p>
<p>dude, u act like ur an authority when it comes to this. What gives you such authority and why you do you feel the need to always argue with people. I got into Rice as a freshman, you were rejected. You applied to Rice as a transfer, you were rejected. Sorry to be so hasty, but that is the way you are.</p>
<p>Owned</p>
<p>Bball :)</p>
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<p>Such rubbish. That one is rejected in the transfer process makes him less credible? I would love to read your justification for that.</p>
<p>At any rate, my reasoning comes from my rejection. I actually spoke to a Rice admissions officer about the reasons for my rejection, and low and behold, the evidence I provided above was among them. </p>
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<p>You need disabuse in reasoning and maturity. Perhaps a higher school SAT average will boost your ego, but do not count your luck.</p>
<p>bball87 might be too good for Cornell, but the rules of logic fail him:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem</a></p>
<p>Attack the ideas, not the person. You can do it bball, I have faith in you, the wiseacre that you are.</p>
<p>So who's ****ed that the U.S. has, once again, proven to be obstinate in the face of global progress in Montreal this week?</p>
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<p>bball87, I am in no way an authority. In fact, I encourage prospective transfers to seek further advice from admissions officers and opinions from other educated students. If you believe my arguments are incorrect, then provide evidence against them. Your evidence, however, will be quite weak when confronted with actual experience and evidence given from authoritative sources such as adcoms themselves.</p>
<p>Intellectual inferiors such as you cannot offend me, so continue to attack me if you wish. I will still sit and wait patiently for a decent argument. I am not, however, holding my breath.</p>
<p>"Intellectual inferiors such as you cannot offend me, so continue to attack me if you wish."</p>
<p>Honestly, nspeds. Go meditate in India for a year.</p>
<p>Otherwise, you should make a great lexicographer and nothing more.</p>
<p>dude, i have nothing to prove to you. I was admitted to the very school that you want to attend out of high school. I currently attend a "top 15 school." I have nothing to prove to anyone, but myself. I am unsatisfied, but it is not because my school isn't good enough or doesn't have the name logo, I just want something different. In addition, I am apart of a pretty elite group here, one of 45 freshman out of 3000 freshman as a presidential research scholar, try matching that.</p>
<p>****ing christ...</p>
<p>the two of you need to grow up, seriously. </p>
<p>back on topic, Anyone else have a success story similar to that of the guy who started this thread? I could use all the inspiration I can get.</p>
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<p>I do not care. Anyone who cannot argue according to the principles of logic cannot be saved even by the most generous of scholarships.</p>
<p>Scholarships do not turn halfwits into geniuses.</p>
<p>um yeah, my friend from high school transferred from Cornell to Columbia, lol</p>