Transferring to Loyola Maryland

I am currently a Freshman at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and I am considering transferring schools upon wanting to change my major. Being that I have only been at the College for a couple of months, I have not gotten involved in any clubs, but the University said that they will review a resume of my past high school achievements. However, I have about a “B-” for my first semester at HC.

In high school, I had a 4.0 GPA and finished in the top 15% of my graduating class, in addition I also had three honor societies to my credit (Math, Italian, and NHS). On top of that I received 9 other school wide notifications of honor, including finishing as the top Italian Language student. I was the president of a club at my high school, and even became the founder and president of an Italian Language club. On top of that I was involved in my school’s prestige leadership club that I had to be accepted into. I also played varsity golf for three years as well.

I was involved in many more activities throughout high school, such as having 90+ community service hours, but the information provided is the most important. What are my chances of being accepted as a transfer student?

Lastly, I was already accepted to Loyola when I was applying my senior year; will this help at all in the transferring process?

No one but admissions can really answer that. I think that the distribution of grades may be more important than your overall gpa. Did you have trouble in one class and receive A’s and B’s in everything else? Or did you perform mediocre in everything. Either way I think you have a decent shot.

Loyola freshman retention rate is 88%. That means they need to refill the sophomore class with 120 new faces. Your chance is decent, higher if you don’t ask for much financial aid which tends not to be good for transfers. Since you have been at HC for one semester, your the high school credential does count. Let us know the result.