<p>I am about to start my freshman year at UMBC will a merit-based full scholarship (tuition, room/board, fees). Not focusing in my junior year of high school led to a final gpa of 3.6, weighted 4.3 (SAT's: 1480). However, will the fact that I am in the honors college and hopefully will be getting a (3.8+) gpa this year help in the transfer process? I got waitlisted at Wash U, Wellesley, and Univ. of Chicago, for what I am sure was because of my GPA. Thanks for any feedback</p>
<p>Wow congrats on the scholarship! </p>
<p>Okay now on to the transferring...First your SAT score is great however many transfer students will have an SAT somewhere around that. I however DO NOT suggest taking it over again because that is still an amazing score.
Your H.S. G.P.A will carry alot of weight if you want to transfer into 2nd year. However by achieving a 3.8 or higher you will show that highschool didn't affect you. Its also great that you are going to a great school I think that will help in some way not sure but your school carries more weight then CCs.
You should try to get some amazing EC because these schools just don't want book nerds, but remeber to balance it out to much EC and no time to study will hurt you badly.
Goodluck!</p>
<p>ECs actually don't matter as much for transfers. Columbia and Harvard are very, very tough to transfer into. Its still worth applying if you like the schools, but be aware that even with an eye popping app (4.0, 4800, amazing LORs, essay etc), your chance is probably never going to climb above 40% just because these schools accept such a tiny fraction of those that apply and space is so limited (at Harvard last year there were around 1000 applications for 55 slots. Columbia is similar) I'd shoot for 3.9+ and come up with an extremely compelling reason for transfering if you want to end up at Harvard or Columbia. Cornell, Brown and Penn take much more transfer students. If you applied to all three you'd almost certainly get into one.</p>
<p>and congrats on the scholarship =)</p>
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<p>They admitted 79 this year.</p>
<p>nspeds, thats for just the fall semester. there is a spring transfer as well, but i have no idea what the stats are for that. the website has virtually nothing on spring transfers. probably similar acceptance rates.</p>