<p>I understand all these are likely reaches. My safety is my current school, which is Michigan State. I am happy here but will transfer if a better opportunity presents itself.</p>
<p>Personal Information
White Male
Michigan Resident
Michigan State Univerity
49 credits completed </p>
<p>Statistics:
Cumulative College GPA - 3.6
1st semester - 3.17 - 13 credits (at MSU)
2nd semester - 3.4 - 15 credits (at MSU)
3rd semester - 4.0 - 21 credits (at Community College)</p>
<p>High School GPA - 3.7
4 AP courses taken
AP Scholar
11 Honors level courses taken
Class Rank unavailable</p>
<p>Test Scores:
SAT - 1300</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Worked a job, 6 hours per week, 1st and 2nd semester
Worked a different job, 12 hours per week, 3rd semester
Got an internship with a known company for the Fall
Student Government elected official
Active member of 2 different clubs
Writes articles for student newspaper
Phi Theta Kappa member (at Community College)</p>
<p>Schools
Northwestern University
Rice University
Vanderbilt University
University of Southern California
University of Michigan
University of Virginia
University of North Carolina</p>
<p>For most of these places, the community college credits really hurt you compared to the credits at Michigan State (the exception is at Univ of Michigan). Also, the high school record isn't going to make much difference at most of these schools if you are applying as a sophomore in college for junior admission.</p>
<p>Lastly, you gave me no clue has to how difficult the classes you have been taking are or what major you are pursuing. As a result, I don't know if you've been taking a bunch of Sociology courses, or Science and Engineering courses, or Accounting and Econ and Math courses, or Kinesiology courses focusing on the teaching of physical education to middle schoolers. </p>
<p>As a result, estimating these are going to be extremely difficult.
So, best guesses are:</p>
<p>Northwestern University--Reach (need about a 3.8 to 3.9 GPA)
Rice University--Match to Slight Reach
Vanderbilt University--Slight Reach (need about a 3.7 GPA)
University of Southern California--Match (they take quite a few transfers--although preference goes to in-state students)
University of Michigan--Match (in-state really helps here)
University of Virginia--Slight Reach (the GPA is okay, but you're OOS--and they give lots of preference to in-state transfers--in-fact the legislature has already set up quotas on how many in-state transfers they HAVE to take)
University of North Carolina--Match to Slight-Reach (OOS)--depends upon the major</p>
<p>I should also point out that some of these schools won't accept your application once you have taken over a certain number of units--for example, UVA will only allow you to transfer 62 units tops--so if take over 65 or so, they usually decline you if you are already at a different 4-year school. So you'd have to apply for Spring Semester acceptance there, rather than applying for acceptance to next Fall's class, but I don't even know if they take mid-year transfer candidates--so you might need to mark this one off your list.</p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Wow, great post Calcruzer!!! Printed it out, very helpful!</p>
<p>I'm a business student, I would be transferring business schools outside of Rice, Northwestern, and Vanderbilt, where I would do something else, either Econ, Journalism, Communications, whatever. I'm not too concerned about my major at this point, i've taken general education courses that will mainly transfer up to this point. </p>
<p>Here are my credits so far:
1st semester
English 4
College Algebra 3
Physical Science 3
Microeconomics 3</p>
<p>2nd semester
Macroeconomics 3<br>
Financial Accounting 3
Survey of Calculus 3
Arts and Humanities 3
Lab 2</p>
<p>3rd semester (now 21 credits - took out 2 courses)
Managerial Accounting 3
Social Science 4
Statistics 3
Biological Science 4
Arts and Humanities 4
Economics 3</p>
<p>My new GPA would put me at around 3.56, which shouldn't make much of a difference in terms of admission compared to a predicted 3.6, but I was dreaming trying to get all those credits in, I think i'm going to drop 2 classes and actually have a summer.</p>
<p>I'm surprised you put Rice as a "Match/Slight Reach". Could you explain that? I was thinking that they were up there with Northwestern in my reach category.</p>
<p>Would this be a fair assessment?
Reach - Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt
Slight Reach - USC, Virginia
Match - Michigan, North Carolina</p>
<p>Yes, that would be a fair assessment for you (Michigan would be tougher for others not in-state like you are). </p>
<p>If you are a business major, you need to know that Northwestern, Rice, and Vanderbilt all have no undergraduate business school. UNC is usually super-tough to get into from OOS, but for some reason this doesn't seem to be quite as true for transfers candidates. </p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>Northwestern - Reach
Rice - Reach
Vanderbilt - Low Reach
USC - High Match / Low Reach
University of Michigan - High Match
University of Virginia - Reach
University of North Carolina - Match / High Match</p>
<p>Yeah, I know they don't have an undergraduate business school. I probably won't get credit for my accounting classes there. I'm also thinking of communications as a major, in addition to Journalism. Like I said, major isn't very important to me, rather finding the right school and fit for me. I would like to go to a school with a bit of a more intellectual environment and less of a party environment, that also has more personalized attention, which i'm not finding at my current school. </p>
<p>I'd also like campus spirit, MSU Basketball and Football has been fun. All these schools are solid in sports, outside of Rice. Vanderbilt and Northwestern are lacking a bit, however all these schools have elite academic reputations.</p>
<p>Update:</p>
<ul>
<li>My GPA this semester was a 3.86 with 21 credits. </li>
<li>Cumulative GPA is now a 3.52 with 50 credits completed.</li>
</ul>
<p>I'm now just applying to Michigan. Do you guys think I can get in?</p>