<p>I got accepted into CAS but not Newhouse, which is where I'd like to be if I were to go to Syracuse. How hard is it to transfer into Newhouse?</p>
<p>i went to one of the admitted student meetings and the staff and students who spoke on the panels said SU wants to see a gpa around 3.8, but personally that sounds ridiculously high. however, they said that if you show interest in other e.c’s and are well rounded the gpa doesnt need to be quite that high.
hope that helps</p>
<p>Wittywriter- that’s interesting about EC’s. When we visited Newhouse, we were told that transferring to Newhouse was based entirely on first semester grades and that last year they cut off at 3.7 or 3.8.</p>
<p>BLK: yes, it is just based on GPA but, no, there is no way that the cut-off was that high;
my daughter was a freshman entry into Newhouse (2008) and she knows a ton of the inter-school transfer kids…the cutoff was more like 3.5 or a B+/A- average depending on the school one started at…</p>
<p>one would have to choose their fall freshman courses very carefully though; and even still, a 3.8 would be a huge nut to crack for a first semester freshman…</p>
<p>We were at son’s admitted students orientation this week. They stated for transfers the only thing that matters is GPA. They start from the top and take kids until open slots are filled. EC’s had nothing to do with it. They reinforced that by saying upon matriculation, your HS record (SAT’s, EC’s, HS GPA, etc) is meaningless - college GPA rules.</p>
<p>Well at the admitted students meeting i went to that is what the faculty and students- one of which was a newhouse transfer student- told the group. Maybe they were just trying to avoid scaring the person who asked the question. hahah
The fact that college GPA is the main factor makes me thankful I am already into newhouse…</p>
<p>BillysDad is correct. You should go directly to Newhouse to talk about the cutoff; the University-wide office sometimes gives different numbers. In general, it depends on how good everyone else’s GPA is for that year…</p>