Hey guys currently a freshman at Emory University.
I wanted to know how much factor high school grades would have? My SAT/ACT scores are 2350/35 respectively however my GPA during high school was rather poor (probably main reasons I didn’t get accepted).
After my first semester of college I attained a 4.0 and will be overloading (22 credit) next semester.
Also any tips? I’m trying to transfer because Emory doesn’t offer a certain program/major that I’m interested in
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Similar situation minus the testing scores. My scores were crap: 32 on ACT first try late senior year.
Took 19 this semester couldn’t fit an extra 1 so ending up 21 next semester.
Looking at Ivies and any other higher tier schools that might offer better financial aid. Brown is the most interesting for me atm, simply because of the liberal arts aspect.
Here is what you should know-- the seats at Ivy-plus schools (Stanford) that are available for transfers is largely tied to attrition. Since attrition is almost non-existent in the top Ivy schools, so are the seats available. By way of example, recently, Harvard had over 1500 applicants and admitted about 15, and Yale had over a 1000 applicants in which about 2 dozen were offered seats. Brown is close to 5%. Princeton takes no transfers. Stanford accepts close to 1-2%. So, while being qualified is certainly a criteria, the other portion must convey why these schools; typical reasons are that these schools offer programs and/or degrees not offered at your existing institution. Transferring because of the desire to attend a more elite institution is NOT consider a valid reason for transfer.
Cornell had the most open transfer admission rate, close to 20%, but the figure is misleading as most of the seat are reserved for NY state CC students.
Second, that you could have obtained admission as a freshmen applicant. Third, that you have perfect scores at your current institution. Long story short…it is much more difficult to obtain admission as a transfer than as applying for a freshmen seat…
Now I don’t mean to be rude however your post really did not help at all, a simple google search can tell me the accepted transfer rates.
Also I did mention in the last sentence the reason of my transferring is not because I want to transfer due to a “desire to attend a more elite institution” rather its because of an academic one.
I also believe you posted that same exact comment on different threads, so if you are not going to actually give people tips and advice and post the same comment on different threads why comment at all?
The tips are within the text of the post, all of the features are the main criteria for transfer admission. I would add th largest represented schools as accepted transfers are from Ivy plus schools. If you had a low HS gpa, its going to be uphill-period.
Your high school GPA is not going to be as important since you are transferring but since your college GPA is 4.0, you should still apply. If you continue to have a 4.0, you will have displayed improvement from high school. Apply if you want to and make sure to be precise when describing why you want to transfer.
What is your high school GPA? “Rather poor” is highly subjective and doesn’t do much in the way of reliability.
@LamarDavis I forgot the exact number (since I stopped caring during my second semester of senior year) however it hovered around the ranges of UW 3.7, W 4.02 or something like that which was about top 20% of my high school class. Don’t know if that helps or anything + my school is national ranked/recognized
That’s not enough to put you out of commission, although it certainly doesn’t help.
My opinion about the process is that these numbers (testing, college GPA, hs GPA, etc) are never the reason you get accepted or denied (unless they are THAT bad that you get autocut). Your essays are critical, as are your demonstrated leadership in activities. Don’t stress the numbers you can’t change.