<p>What’s up guys. I applied for Fall '09 as a transfer student from University of Rhode Island. I have a 3.65 overall g.p.a. at URI and i’ve earned about 44 credits. I’ve taken mainly general education courses, all 100 and 200 level. One 200 level honors course that i am currently in. National Honor Society, URI chapter, Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, and I am 21 year old war veteran. My high school records and tests are extremely mediocre and hopefully irrelevant, I graduated 4 years ago ('05). What do you think my chances of getting in are? I applied for College of Arts and Science and want to focus on international relations. My essay was well written and hopefully my g.p.a. and military background will be enough? What do you think? Does the veteran status even matter?</p>
<p>I dont know if veteran status matters but it helps I guess…Maybe?</p>
<p>Since you are transferring, they should have asked for your high school records and they will really factor that in.</p>
<p>Also, why are you considering BU btw?</p>
<p>They did ask for high school records and i provided them, but i was reading on the transfer site and it mentioned emphasis on college record especially for students with more than a year of college. I was terrible in high school my freshman and sophomore years are terrible something like a 1.6 gpa. But i got my act together junior and senior years, i had like 3.2, but still an overall somewhere around 2.6. So i’m hoping since that was about 6 years ago they can over look that. I’ve made it pretty evident that i am a motivated individual and student through my life choices and achievement at college level.</p>
<p>Why BU? I’m interested in a much more rigorous curriculum, would absolutely love to be going to school in the city (boston is by my favorite city), their international relations program offers a lot more unique avenues of approach than the IR program i am currently in. Just to name a few.</p>
<p>i took my SAT’s in '04 and i think after five years they don’t even acknowledge the scores. Too bad its only been four and change. I did terrible on those too i think i had like a 1010 overall with my best scores.</p>
<p>when i transferred BU really looked at my hs scores bc i had only been in college for one year, but they said that if i had been in college for more than one year they really wouldn’t matter at all. so you should be fine! good luck</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply! I hope so too, i visited the campus yesterday and it was cold but absolutely beautiful, felt at home, but tried not to get my hopes up too high with denial still a possibility. I don’t want to wait until june to find out, i wish they would just tell me already!</p>