Transferring to Stanford and Ivies with a 2.0?

[east89]

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Everyone on this board, get this across your head. If you have below a 3.5 in high school and graduate with a lower GPA, you will not be going to a top college. If your SAT score is below a 1750 then chances are you won’t go to a top school either.</p>

<p>Look, few people go on to schools like the Ivies, Stanford, MIT and Cal Techs, those are for the people who did outstanding in high school. The ones who do outstanding in high school get rejected so THEY apply as transfers to those schools and they are the ones getting accepted. If you have poor high school grades, no matter how well you do in college you won’t get into the top schools as a transfer, period. It is common sense that if you do bad in high school then you won’t do good in college.</p>

<p>High school excellence means everything when you apply to the top colleges and even the top grad programs.

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<p>Yep, because when I apply to Boalt Hall in a year, I’m expecting to receive a call from Berkeley regarding my poor high school performance <em>insert rolling eyes smiley here</em>. I don’t think your post could possibly be any more wrong. I had both a sub-par HS gpa and pathetic SAT scores, but was able to earn a 3.93 college gpa. This “common sense” that you speak of seems to only be an assumption on your behalf.</p>

<p>Here’s another one of your misled posts:</p>

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I challenge you guys to prove me wrong, find me a story of someone who did average to bad in high school and managed to make it to a top university. It doesn’t have to be Harvard, it can be a top 40 school.

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<p>So when you were proven wrong, you just opted to call everyone in the success thread a liar, rather than shifting from your myopic stance that high school will always be paramount in one’s life.</p>