<p>Is high school GPA a top factor for transfer students? Or is it mostly first year college GPA, type of school you are coming from, and SAT?</p>
<p>if you're a freshman transfer high school gpa still comes into play.. however you still have a shot at a top college with a high college GPA (3.7+) and high SATs (1400+) probably not columbia or so but you would have a pretty decent shot at a school such as NYU or Carnegie</p>
<p>Hey, i'm totally new here in US and i'm going to Cal CC next year.
My SAT(1st time) is disastrous, but I believe I can get a better score, hopefully >1400.
So, should I retake SAT during 2 years in CC? Will a better score improve my transfer chance? (for examples: UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSD...)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Yea does SAT come into play when transfering?</p>
<p>yes somewhat. like 10% importance or so i believe.</p>
<p>Where did you get such a stat? So what are the percentages for the other factors?</p>
<p>^ its just an educated guess.</p>
<p>So should I retake SAT? Or it'll be better to focus on my CC GPA?</p>
<p>I don't think that you can quantify these things but here is some info from an old post. </p>
<p>C-GPA: 35
ECs in general: 20 (if you have standout achievements, will help)
Essays: 25 (need a compelling reason to leave, essays more important here than in freshman applications, you're expected to know more about what you want after a year of college)
HS-GPA/Trans: 10 (more important if sophmore transfer, less so if junior)
SAT I: 10(you need to genereally meet the school's average scores--used to "cut" people, not benefit them)
SAT II: 0 (less important now that you've actually done some college work)</p>
<p>martini, i think if you applying to enter as a sophmore it is something like this</p>
<p>College GPA: 35
High School GPA: 35
Essays: 25
SAT: 15</p>
<p>this makes sense too. how about ecs?</p>
<p>wait thats 110 :)</p>
<p>Recommendations mean nothing.</p>
<p>What led you to that conclusion, nspeds?</p>
<p>They must have some value, otherwise they wouldn't be required. But yes, I'll agree that they are just padding.</p>
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<p>I was gently mocking martini's and bball's rubric, since they do not take into account the significance of recommendations.</p>
<p>nspeds, for you information most state schools don't even ask for recommendations.</p>
<p>It also depends on the college. I'm sure recs and essays mean a lot more to UChicago than NYU...
On average, I think its like this:
College GPA: 30% (In this 10% difficulty of courses)
HS GPA: 20%
EC's (imp if you continue HS ec's in C): 10%
Recs: 10%
Essays: 15%
Tests: 15%</p>
<p>However, an amazing essay will raise the percentage to 30+ %, I think amazing recs would help up to 20%, I don't think tests will raise in value unless you have a really high score and you are applying to a college with a relatively low SAT/ACT average, I doubt recs would go above 25% in value, HS GPA would be about 25-30% for a freshman and 15-20% as sophmores, college GPA will be 30-50% according to your course load, college, and status (freshman/sophmore). And I think I spent 1000% more time on this than I should have...</p>
<p>No, no, no. It is like this:</p>
<p>College GPA: 31.223456%
HS GPA: 17.2334322%
EC's: 12.3354667678%
Recs: 11.3234234%
Essays: 12.334556%
Tests: 12.3445456456%</p>
<p>Random: (the result of subtracting the above from 100)%</p>
<p>These numbers are accurate. This post should be stickied, in fact.</p>
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<p>Whoa! I never applied to a state school before! Do they give you cookies with an acceptance letter? My tour guide at UT-Austin wore a hoop-skirt. Is that not exotic?</p>
<p>I hope the two posts above are the result of alcohol.</p>