<p>Hi, I am currently a Sophomore at a community college in Texas with a 3.8 GPA... I had transferred here after Freshman year from a university in Texas. Do I have a shot of transferring to NYU to double major in English and Political Science that fall of Junior year... My high school stats are terrible... But I worked for my university's newspaper, completed 100 hours of community service at a hospital, and I'm a lower class Hispanic. I was going through a depression my freshman year of college stating around high school because of tough times. I am also working to jobs and had to pick a a trade for cutting hair to help my family keep our home. My mom is a single parent. I'm 19.... Do I have a shot at transferring if I include all of that into my personal statement as well?</p>
<p>*I’m also working “two” jobs lol</p>
<p>But my GPA from my university is a 2.20 :(</p>
<p>Anybody??? Please??!!!</p>
<p>You don’t say what your overall gpa is, generally viable transfer applicants to selective colleges have at least about a 3.5 gpa. </p>
<p>You say you are low income, I’m afraid NYU is well known for giving terrible need based FA, particularly for transfers. You would most likely would be stuck with a large amount of loans, which is not a good idea for anyone just graduating from college these days.</p>
<p>Glad you are doing better these days, you sound like an incredibly hard working and dedicated person. In my experience, those types of people thrive and will do well, wherever they attend college.</p>
<p>I think you could try but you have to remember that they have to compare you with other transfer students with higher gpa’s who are doing those activities as well. But I have a couple of questions for you. </p>
<p>Why NYU? If you don’t obviously have the funds for your current situation, how will you maintain yourself in NY? It is very expensive to go out of state especially to NY! My daughter (senior in EE) is in upstate NY and we support all of her costs. We are also a Mexican American family and we are barely making it in paying her college costs and expenses. She didn’t get any URM scholarships. She got one Merit scholarship for freshman and sophomore years because of her good grades. You don’t have those yet. </p>
<p>Financial aid won’t cover your expenses and it sounds like you’ll be needing it. If you think your financial situation is bad now, it will become worse when you discover how much more debt you will accumulate going OOS. </p>
<p>And, if you transferred from a university to a CC and now you’re going back to a university-how will you change your study habits? All of your EC’s just indicate that you are a good volunteer, but your grades indicate that either academics are not a priority, or that the work is just too hard for you. If you did, by some miracle, get into NYU, how would you pass your classes? Just wanting to be at NYU wont change your study habits and honestly, a C average at a CC means there is no way you could even compete, academically, with an average student at NYU. I’m just being honest. </p>
<p>You may want to try to take a couple more classes at your CC to get your grades up and check colleges in your state for financial aid and your major before you consider going out of state and getting into a huge amount of debt.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I got confused about your gpa. The colleges will look at your overall GPA. But my other comments still apply. </p>
<p>You’ll need lots of money to survive in NY and and Entomom has noted, transfer students get minimal financial aid even to URM.</p>
<p>Thanks Entomom!</p>
<p>@aunt bea: Yeah, your right about all of that… I’ve been debating for a while if NYU is even worth the effort for a person like me, for just the finances alone. I want to go to NYU because a couple of years ago, I visited the campus and I just really admired the school and the hustle and bustle of the city. Very exciting and fast paced. I want to be a lawyer, and I’m aware that the prestige of schools matter when getting a job the majority of the time, and I feel NYU would help with that. NYU isn’t my only school I want to attend. I would love to transfer to UT-Austin as well, then perhaps proceed to law school where ever I get accepted to. It would save me a lot of money if I were to get accepted, such as the out of state tax and living expenses that I would avoid from living in Manhattan. But yeah, my grades are what worry me the most from my freshman year up in university. It’s not that it was “too hard” for me, or that I didn’t care… But sometimes life just happens and you have all of these problems occur in your life that really test you. And even though in the ideal world, you can just put all of that aside and focus on school, sometimes that is just not possible, and it DOES affect your performance in your grades. God willing though, the admissions officers will see that in my essays as well. I already have one great recommendation from my English professor from university, so hopefully those schools that I will be applying to will see that I AM a good student, but I don’t have the luxury to solely focus on school like a lot of kids my age do!</p>
<p>Because of the cost and law glut, people advise avoiding or minimizing debt for undergraduate years.</p>
<p>For law school, you need very high undergraduate grades and a very high LSAT score.</p>
<p>Going to NYU as an undergraduate won’t help you get into the law school.</p>
<p>If you go to New York, your Texas cosmetology license won’t transfer (I just checked the website).</p>