I plan on transferring into NYU(i am applying to Columbia also). I was waitlisted as a high school senior and I really don’t like my current college(i am a freshman) currently my GPA is a 4.0 still after midterms and everything but I was wondering what you guys think my chances are. my hs GPA was a 3.8 and I have a 1300 sat(plan to retake for the ivy leagues). college ecs include engineers without borders and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. high school ecs include STEM(president), robotics, national honor society, and co-captain of math club. Idk if my high school ecs still need to be included on the common app. Any response is welcome!
Can you tell us what university you are at? You should expect your current university to get more difficult as you get further into the semester, and as you get into upper year courses.
If you apply to transfer right now, your high school grades are going to be very important. As such it is hard to imagine why they would accept you now if they didn’t before. A 1300 SAT is way low for any Ivy League or equivalent university. I only knew one single student with an SAT that low when I was an undergrad at an “ivy equivalent” top school, and he never graduated. I thought I saw on another thread that your high school average was around 90, which is also quite low for the Ivy League (I apologize if I am remembering this incorrectly).
What is your major? If you are in a major for which graduate school is likely, you might also want to seriously consider the option of working very hard where you are, trying to pull off close to a 4.0 for undergrad, and then applying to higher ranked universities for graduate school.
In one of your other threads you say you’re low income. How would you pay for NYU? What’s your major? There must be better options than NYU.
that was before I graduated when all was said and done my hs gpa was a 95 which I was told is around a 3.8. I do plan on retaking the sat after a couple practice tests I’ve been consistently scoring between 1450-1500. I am at a CUNY school rn(city university of NY) specifically ccny. I am a computer engineer major, but I really wanna study comp sci and econ major at NYU. I took 4 AP’s in hs got a 3 on 1 and 4’s on the others(don’t plan on submitting them)
as for income I just wanted to apply and see what type of aid I will receive, I don’t plan on going to grad school which is why I wanna go to a prestigious undergrad, also my current school is not really what I expected it to be and I don’t feel right there