Transfering After a year of horrible GPA

Transfer Students
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<p>In senior year of High School, as I was applying to college. I came across Binghampton University. Being from NY, this seemed like a good SUNY school to apply to.</p>

<p>Not knowing how good it really was, as i had a notion that SUNY schools werent as good as Private Institutions, I did not attend and instead went to Northeastern University.</p>

<p>After a year of Northeastern University, majoring in Economics, I had a GPA of 2.1. Graduating with Honors with a 4.0 GPA in High School, Top 10% with an ACT of 27, a 2.1 GPA in college was unacceptable for me.</p>

<p>However, serious extenuating circumstances in my family had caused my downward spiral of my GPA. Moreover, I strongly disliked Northeastern.</p>

<p>Now as i finished my first year, I will be starting my second year at Northeastern. However because I dislike the school, it is expensive, and my GPA was terrible. I want to transfer back to Binghamton. I know that this year i can easily get above a 3.0 GPA, possibly above a 3.5.</p>

<p>My question is:
Is it possible I can get reaccepted into Binghampton, despite everything that happened above?</p>

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<p>Colleges only look at your GPA up to the Fall quarter/semester before you transfer… so it appears the best you could do to boost your GPA in one quarter/semester is around a 2.8-3.0 if you received a 4.0 next quarter/semester. </p>

<p>Can you retake classes you received <2.0 in? If so, that will raise your GPA as well. I don’t know what that SUNY requires for transfer students, so you should look into that yourself.</p>

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<p>You’d probably be better off staying at Northwestern because of its superior national reputation, even if it means taking a little more debt and a lower GPA.</p>

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<p>If you can’t retake the classes you didn’t do well in, have you considered attending a community college to bring up your grades? </p>

<p>Al, Northeastern is in Boston, and Northwestern in in Chicago.</p>

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<p>I think that writing a great essay explaining all of these circumstances could help, paired along with a great GPA this semester. Northeastern is good but it is ridiculously expensive. Also al6200 was confused and thought it was Northwestern. Keep in mind transferring out of Northeastern is extremely difficult after sophomore year because of their program structure.</p>