<p>Hi, I'm currently a freshman at OSU and I came in with 39 credits, and I just did 18 credits this semester and still landed a 4.0. I'm gonna take 17 next semester so I'll have 74 done by the end of my freshman year (would this make me a junior transfer?) My high school gpa was a 3.8, but my ACT is low (30). As for ec's go, I was selected to be in NSLI-Y, which is a government-funded organization that promotes critical languages, and I stayed with a host family in Deyang, Sichuan, China for 7 weeks and studied Chinese in a local school. I also took Chinese courses at Hunter College as part of the Startalk program and got A's. Should I bother applying to Penn as a transfer? If I did would I have a chance?</p>
<p>Tl;dr:
-3.8 hs gpa (took AP Lit, AP Lang, AP Bio, AP Spanish, AP Psych, AP Government & Politics and got mostly 5's w/ some 4's)
-ACT 30-->will retake lol
-4.0 College gpa (with 18 credits)
-57 credits completed, will have 74 done by end of spring (but I'm a first year, so only 1 semester of college grades available, besides my Hunter College transcript with Chinese courses).
-Ec's: Lived in Sichuan, China with a host family to study Mandarin Chinese for almost 2 months, some volunteer work over there as well. I also taught ESL classes and designed lesson plans at my local library.</p>
<p>If u need any more info, don't hesitate to ask!!! </p>
<p>Are you counting your APs as part of your college credits? (6 AP courses x 6 or so?). Perhaps the Hunter College courses would count. Penn doesn’t convert AP credits to college credits (in the sense of credits needed to graduate). Penn only considers APs on which you’ve received 5s and, at your option, allows you to “skip” the equivalent course at Penn and take a higher level course or some other course (as in a second major or to meet sector requirements) instead. You don’t in fact get the credits “numerically” so you don’t move into a higher grade as a result and graduate earlier. Your situation with 6 (or more) APs is typical for many Penn freshmen. The AP credits can help you skip required courses and make it easier for you to double major, or to take more courses than you would normally be able to do at a Penn college (e.g. Wharton or Engineering etc.) other than that of your major (e.g. CAS). In practice high school AP courses are rarely truly equivalent to Penn courses so it’s not always prudent to skip core courses, APs or not, anyway.</p>
<p>The information that you’ve provided about yourself does not suggest that you would have been a strong “regular” admit to Penn. What have you done that’s special at Ohio State that would now make you a compelling “transfer” admit?</p>
Lol you give me hope to transfer one day to someplace like Penn once I get into college (still in HS). Did you get in anywhere else besides Penn? I’m worried it’ll be a lot harder to transfer in as an incoming sophomore vs junior.
