Hello everybody,
I had a question about the transfer admissions policy at the University of Minnesota. In high school, I was a pretty lazy/bored student who wasn’t really interested in any of my classes and got pretty bored by the lack of challenge in most of them, often not doing homework. I believe I had just south of a 3.0, but also took over 12 AP classes and another 2 IB classes (such as both AP Calcs, AP Psych, IB Further Math, AP Bio, APUSH, etc), and a 33 ACT. Unfortunately, I wasn’t accepted into Minnesota (I applied to the College of Science and Engineering, and am now applying for transfer to the school of Food, Agriculture, and NR Sciences), and went to Montana State as it was one of my safety schools. I am just fine here and definitely don’t hate the school, but going to Minnesota is just one of my dreams and I’d go there in a heartbeat. Assuming I do very well in my classes (which I think I will, as I was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed Adderrall and did very well my second semester of senior year), what are the chances I’ll be able to get into the U’s School of Food, Agr, and NR sciences for its Animal Science, pre-vet program for Fall 2016? Will they mostly disregard my college grades as I only will have completed one semester and just look at my high school grades/ACT? I’m from MN if that helps. Also want to go there as I will be able to play lacrosse there, too.
“Also want to go there as I will be able to play lacrosse there, too.”
Does the coach know you? If so, ask that person what you should do to improve your chance of admission.
I’ve talked with him and grades are grades, extracurriculars are extracurriculars, he couldn’t really tell me the ins and outs of transfer admissions, but if I get into the Honor College here (they start intake at the end of this fall semester) it would be pretty good. He doesn’t have any sway with admissions, though. He only really knew about regular freshman admissions.