<p>Can you transfer into a school with a weak HS GPA? </p>
<p>I performed poorly last semester of my senior year.</p>
<p>Yes, yes indeed you can.</p>
<p>When you transfer to a university or another community college, they factor in your college grades more than your high school grades.</p>
<p>As for ivy league colleges, I’m not sure. Even if you do come from a CC, they may still factor in your high school grades.</p>
<p>^ Really? But if you are applying for transfer in your freshman year of college, won’t high school grades matter more? I’ll have ~40 credits by the end of my freshman year of college.</p>
<p>College grades definitely matter most</p>
<p>Show an upward trend in your grades and it’ll definitely be in your favor. Quite a lot of colleges discount HS grades after a set amount of time.</p>
<p>Well, I wouldn’t exactly called my GPA in high school weak (3.67), but I didn’t try at all in high school either. Anyway, since my girlfriend wanted to see if we could attend the same school and had for years dreamed of this very thing she wanted me to get the ball rolling on applying. As a transfer student, I had to get a letter of recommendation from the dean, send my high school transcripts, my SAT scores, and then my college transcripts. She goes to a private university, so as a transfer student I would assume the process is like this if that’s the type of institution you wish to attend. A friend of mine transferred to Harvey Mudd and I think he had to take the SAT II subject tests as well.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I applied to a few public universities that only required my coursework from my community college.</p>
<p>Rain202 has the right idea. If you apply for a sophomore transfer, your high school grades will still be weighted pretty heavily. If you apply for a junior transfer, though, unless you’re applying to ivy league schools or similar, they will barely even be looked at.</p>
<p>I want to apply to an ivy or top private college because of their endowments. </p>
<p>I need more financial aid.</p>
<p>If you have a weak high school GPA, you honestly have a better chance as a junior transfer. But if you’re like me and you don’t want to wait, it doesn’t hurt to apply as a sophomore transfer.</p>
<p>It doesn’t hurt, but if money is tight, you may just be throwing it into the wind by applying early. It looks like you had a significant drop in your GPA senior year, Toriart, and you’ll likely need to put more than one semester between you and your grades, to show it won’t happen again, unless you have a good explanation for why the drop occurred.</p>
<p>I’m homeless, but that really isn’t an excuse. It dropped because taking 7 APs wasn’t the best idea around exam time. </p>
<p>Sent from my SGH-T989 using CC</p>
<p>That sounds like a viable reason to me. You could apply to one or two schools and ace the applications for a sophomore transfer, then if you need to, you could try again with more applications the next year, when the GPA issue is no longer a concern at all.</p>
<p>I hope your situation improves soon – good luck.</p>
<p>So your suggesting to transfer after 1 year or 2 year? And whats the difference between junior transfer and sophomore transfer? Thank you.</p>
<p>@sky3151788: Yes. Sophomore transfer is after 1 year, junior is after two. It’s like high school, except instead of just going into that year, you transfer into it elsewhere.</p>
<p>So if you transfer after 1 year, you continue your second year at the new school and if you transfer after 2 years then you continue your third year at the new school. Is that right? Cause I have heard of people transferring to better schools and they lose all their credits and had to start from year 1 again. I don’t want to spend 6 years for 1 degree @@</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>