<p>Thinking of transferring to Johns Hopkins from Wake Forest, want to know my chances:</p>
<p>SAT:1440
HS GPA: 4.2
College GPA: 3.61 (sounds low but Wake has really strong grade deflation, i.e. i was in the top 10% with only 3.61)</p>
<p>Club Soccer
Habitat for Humanity
Finance Club
Accounting Club
etc...</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’m assuming your SAT is out of 1600. (If it isn’t, then you have no chance.)</p>
<p>JHU accepts about 9% of all transfer applicants. With your 3.61 GPA and weak ECs, I don’t think you have much of a chance. Overall, I’d put your chance of admission at about 25%: above average, but still unlikely.</p>
<p>wow. i dont really think that is fair to say that your chances are unlikely. I think with strange letters of recommendation and essay’s you have just as much of a chance as anyone else. Also, coming from a four-year institution is more diff compared to other CC GPA’s. I’m also considering to transfer to JHU from a four year and I think with compelling classes and if we meet the requirments, we have a good shot.</p>
<p>^
JHU just isn’t a transfer-friendly school. Many similarly ranked schools are much easier to transfer to.</p>
<p>I have to agree with the pessimist here. Chance at JHU are above average but still low. Also I would have to say that Wake GPA is generally fairly inflated [Wake</a> Forest University](<a href=“http://gradeinflation.com/wakeforest.html]Wake”>http://gradeinflation.com/wakeforest.html)</p>
<p>3.21 as of 2007 if you were transfering from a school that was closer to the 2.8 range I would say get a letter from the dean with a percentile or rank on it.</p>
<p>I obviously don’t know much about grades from other schools but I’m pretty sure that grades at wake are much lower than average. The business school is ranked number 1 in the country for academic excellence which im pretty sure is synonymous with difficult grading. This is just one example but my quant teacher showed us the grade distribution for the previous semester and the mean was a 68. As far as I know a 3.61 is low for being in the top 10% at most schools. </p>
<p>Also, I played soccer extremely competitively in high school and even received a number of d 1 scholarship offers. When i went to wake i decided that I didnt want to play there and focus on my school work. However, I know that JHU is only D 3 do you think it would help to contact the coach and see if he could help me get in?</p>
<p>High ranking doesn’t mean low gpa many times it cooralates better with a high gpa. Another example of this is Harvard that until recently had a 3.4 average gpa. [National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://gradeinflation.com/]National”>http://gradeinflation.com/)</p>
<p>And the soccer can put you over the top.</p>