<p>I'm curious what types of schools I should be applying to transfer to. My friend encourages MIT, but the transfer adviser said she only knows of one person who has gotten into an fancy school from our community college. I am not planning on applying to transfer till next year, but I don't think my situation will change much. Any advice on how I could improve would be also be great.</p>
<p>The good:
I'm a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science with a 4.0 GPA in the honors program. I attend the spring, fall, and summer semesters which should allow me to be on the presidents list six times before I apply to transfer. I take rigorous classes that are generally considered hard and prefer the tougher professors. In quiet a few of my classes the average letter grade has been a high C or low B. I should be able to get an excellent recommendation from any of my professors. I am a member of two honors societies and am an officer in one of them. I also belong to five non-honors clubs (belong is a loose term); Philosophy, Math, Robotics, Chess, and Ping-Pong. Work wise I do five hours of weekly community service and have an on-campus job tutoring mathematics and science for twenty hours a week. I am bilingual and currently learning a third language. I have programming experience in a couple of different languages. I will be certified by the National Tutoring Association as a master-level tutor soon. In my spare time I have gotten CompTIA A+ Certified and should be Network+ certified soon.</p>
<p>Science-wise I should be through Calc III, Chem II, Biology II, and Advanced College Physics II by the time I am ready to transfer along with quiet a few soft-science, arts & humanities classes. My total credit hours will be 67.</p>
<p>The bad:
My biggest concern is that I did not go through high school nor am I home schooled. I dropped out of school for the 4th time after graduating from the 8th grade because it was pointless and boring. The intention was to be home schooled, but my mother never got around to it. As such, I am self taught with a GED and have no high school transcripts to speak of. My GED test scores also worry me; I passed by only ten points in the writing portion of the test scoring in the 24th percent and only did slightly better in Mathematics scoring in the 54% percent (this was before my love of math). My Science score was perfect putting me in the top 1% which I am immensely proud of, and my Geography and Social Science scores were both in the top 10%. All in all this means I am without those fancy high-school competition awards, any sort of sports participation, and the like. My only scholastic award to date is making the presidents list a few times, though I am trying to work on that. In my first two full terms (out of five before I transfer) I did not do any kind of volunteer work and only minorly participated in college affairs.</p>
<p>Does anybody know what types of schools I should be looking at? I've looked through this website and am not sure how I compare. I've been told by people off-line I should be able to get into whatever school I want, and I have been told I am average at best when compared to candidates trying to transfer into top schools. I don't care about top schools as I am just looking for a school that will be a good fit, but I'd like to know where I stand.</p>