<p>Hey guys-
I'm a freshman with:
3.33 gpa</p>
<p>a handful of clubs</p>
<p>SATs:
780 M , 730 V, 720 W</p>
<p>SAT IIs:
Bio 740 Math2c 720</p>
<p>Majoring in the business field</p>
<p>How am I looking at those schools? My GPA is on the lower side, but what should I look to bring it up to second semester in order to get into these schools?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>your college gpa are kind of low for those schools. if you plan of applying for fall of 2009. they wont even look at your spring grades sometimes. They will usually base it on your first semester gpa, hs gpa, and SAT scores. The good thing is that the SAT scores might help you a bit.</p>
<p>you’ll have a very good shot at villanova</p>
<p>what school are you at now? what were your hs stats?</p>
<p>I’m at a decent private university. Not stellar, but nothing too bad.
High school grades were mediocre, nothing to write home about.
EC also includes holding a part time job consistently, if that matters any.
What GPA do I need to bring myself up to this semester?</p>
<p>edit: oh, any why wouldn’t schools look at my Spring 09 grades? Aren’t most fall 09 transfer apps due in June?</p>
<p>most i believe are earlier than that…i guess you’ve chosen to be furtive on hs grades and the school ur at</p>
<p>gtown, bc and emory would probably like to see at least a 3.7…which does not seem likely anytime in the near future because that would require two semesters of near 4.0 work, which does not look to be likely…however your sat scores, which are less important now then they were for freshman admissions, make things a bit more interesting for you…your stats demonstrate quite varying degrees of accomplishment, so maybe you’ll have a shot at some of those schools…my feeling however is that your academic achievement at your current college will be the most salient indicator of potential performance at any other school and as such does not bode too well for your chances at gtown and emory</p>
<p>oh no. 
Can anyone weigh in definitively if they’ll see my second semester grades or not? I’m sure I can get close to a 4.0 if I try hard enough my second semester.
Regarding my high school stats, I graduated with a 3.8 ish, a ton of APs, etc., but my high school’s GPA system was a little wacky… I think it was closer to a 3.4 in real GPA terms.
I’m currently enrolled in Boston University’s School of Management which I heard was notorious for grade deflation; can anyone weigh in on that as well?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>well, everybody says they’ll get a 4.0, rarely does it happen…past performance is the best indicator of future performance…but go out and prove us wrong</p>
<p>however, they will not see second semester grades if youre applying for fall 09 unless they request to see midterm grades if you are right on the fence…</p>
<p>people are transferring from all sorts of different colleges, bu is a fine school but its not going to invoke different standards for evaluating your performance</p>
<p>what do you mean that your hs grading system was a bit wacky?..perhaps if your hs performance was a 3.8 and not a 3.4 you would stand a real shot at bc and emory even with a mediocre first semester at college</p>
<p>I recently got accepted to BC from BU for the spring semester after taking this past semester off. I had a 3.18 and got in, so a 3.3 isn’t a death sentence. Since you’re a freshman, I think the key question is whether or not you applied to any of these schools last year. If you did and they rejected you, then I’d say your chances are low. If you got in to them and chose BU, you would have a good chance if you write a good essay.</p>
<p>you are deff. in at villanova.</p>
<p>You’re in at 'Nova. Are you a rich-kid jerk? It definitely helps you fit in.</p>
<p>How am I looking for University of Illinois?</p>
<p>I am so ignorant… I thought that if you didn’t obtain a 4.0 first semester, that it was IMPOSSIBLE to get one in the future.</p>
<p>Wow</p>
<p>cum gpa-wise you’re correct</p>
<p>GrindStreet-
I think it is impossible… no one says otherwise. You can get it close, though.</p>
<p>grind-</p>
<p>tell me where i said it was impossiblee to get a 4.0 after consistantly receiving <3.5’s throughout hs and college…that’s right you can’t find it, because youre just talking out of your behind…all i said was that past performance seems to be the best indicator of future performance on here, and everybody who is not satisfied with their grades on here says that they will get 4.0’s on here despite not having a precedent for doing as much in their record…quite frankly, usually those who can get 4.0s do, those who for whatever reason couldn’t get a 4.0 in the past usually do not</p>
<p>sorry to distract from op’s post-</p>
<p>you are certainly looking good for u illinois…looking over your record again, perhaps i was hasty in dismissing you for xfer to bc and emory…with your sat scores, you should at least have a shot although if you could bring your gpa up over the next couple of semesters you would obviously have a much stronger chance…</p>
<p>best of luck</p>