<p>I would love anyones feedback on this post negative or postive. If at all possible post some schools up that you guys know of that I have not mentioned yet thanks again. Here we go
I am going to graduate from a small private two year college in spartanburg sc called Spartanburg Methodist College. I think i will have at least a 3.5 when i graduate. I am editor of the yearbook, involved in pops, fca, smc singers, kappa sigma alpha, also involved in english honors, psychology honors and i volunteer at halter, the local animal shelter, soup kitchen and i did two years of cross country in highschool. also in fca, student goverment and newspaper, prom comittee. My sats were about a 1300 old SAT and ACT of a 29. I wanted to apply to NYU (CAS), Georgetown and University of Miami and UC Berkeley maybe some others. Again any feedback is awesome thanks.</p>
<p>Unless you're a resident of california, you have a better chance of getting accepted to harvard, yale,stanford and other ivies than UC berkeley.</p>
<p>come on people more help bump</p>
<p>southern, i dont know why you keep trying to apply to schools that are out of your reach. </p>
<p>Schools that fit your gpa: UCSB (even if you are not a cali resident), Uwisconsin, Umichigan, Tulane, and USC.</p>
<p>everything else is a super reach for you.</p>
<p>thank you for that feedback mojo</p>
<p>W<em>t</em>f? Lmao...</p>
<p>To get good suggestions, you should provide information on what type of school size, location, atmosphere you want; what major fields you are considering. Then people can make helpful suggestions. Your current list does have some range in selectivity, but doesn't look like it has a safety really and most are very selective.</p>
<p>It is also true, as stated above, that non-California residents have quite slim chances (although not zero, I suppose) of transferring into UC-B.</p>
<p>ok then i will make it more open sorry i am new at this whole cc organization thing. I am from a small town about 20,000 people would be the whole population. I want to go to a school in a big city with lots to do I want to major in history and maybe minor in classicals and then go onto law school. I also want a dynamic student body with lots of people from around the whole and as far away from south carolina as i could get thanks. hope that helps</p>
<p>you said u wanted to go to cornell...thats not a big city! and ithacas population is 20,000, just like your small town.</p>
<p>Consider American U in Washington DC and Fordham in NY. In fact, several of the traditionally Catholic universities in major cities could be good places for the history/classics combo and you can find them in a range of selectivity. Loyola in Baltimore, St. Louis U in St. Louis (duh). Those are just examples.</p>
<p>Thought i should explain this coment:</p>
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<p>i was laughing at mojojo(well, both of you)..dude is always very negative..And after he basically dissed you, you said 'Thanks for the feedback'- lol.</p>
<p>Don't listen to anything he says. If you were applying as a freshman then yes, the schools might have been reaches- but you're applying as a sophomore so your college record holds more weight. Apply to every single school you want to go to..and as andale said, apply to a couple of safeties. You don't want to come back here next may and start whining because someone with stats similar to yours got into georgetown and you didn't even APPLY(just coz some guy on some forum told you the school was a 'ridiculous' reach)...you know?..Just do really well next semester and apply..</p>
<p>wth? why should she not listen to anything i say?i got into the most selective schools in the country!</p>
<p>Please explain to me how a 3.5 college gpa at a community college holds a lot of weight with a 2.8 HS gpa.</p>
<p>It's true for Berkeley he has very very little chance. He is an out of state tansfer student who has a below average GPA for the school especially considering that the social science department is one of the most competitive in the school which requires a higher GPA for most parts of the school. No offense Southern but if you want to apply more power to you!</p>
<p>there is nothing wrong with going to community college and as a Sophomore transfer most colleges dont look at your highschool grades if you have more than 30 credits. I know Berekeley is a reach.</p>
<p>first of all, i never said there was anything wrong with being a community college transfer, because i came from one myself. But, being from a community college, your GPA is way too low for the majority of the schools that you are trying to apply. In order to be competitive, coming from a community college, your gpa should be in the range of 3.75 + (and not for UC berkeley, because thats still a reach even with a 3.8) </p>
<p>I know that you are a sophmore transfer, but i dont know why you keep mentioning that they "dont look at your high school grades" because they do. Its always accounted, no matter how many units you have, but it is not the sole factor of their decision. </p>
<p>ps. "more than 30 units rule" does NOT apply to Cornell, Georgetown, NYU, and the majority of the schools u want to apply.</p>
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Sorry, Southern, but this is just incorrect. Most schools will take your hs record into serious consideration, along with test scores (if the school considers them), your college GPA, recs, essays, EC's.</p>
<p>No one here can really tell you the relative weight of each; because it actually varies by school and, most importantly, varies applicant to applicant within a given school.</p>
<p>So, yes, you should NOT be discouraged from applying where you would like. You should not feel disadvantaged by being a cc student. You should not worry about lacking a 4.0 college GPA - my one pet peeve about some of the posters here on the Transfer Forum. It is patently not necessary to focus on a 4.0 GPA - which anyone can tell by looking at the transfer stats in results threads for even some of the most selective schools.</p>
<p>But you do need to give yourself a constant reality check in selecting your schools. Anyone who definitely needs or wants to transfer (which obviously applies to anyone in a 2-year school) simply must identify a range of safe-match-reach schools. A safe school would be one that has a track record of accepting students with the stats like the "worst" part of your application.</p>
<p>so what do you suggests if you look at my stats would be my safety reach and other types of schools just throw some suggestions out there thanks</p>
<p>it depemds on the type of school you're looking for. There are obviously going to 1000's of schools that are mathces/ safeties for you. What are you looking for in terms of location,size, weather, etc....</p>
<p>I am looking for some school in a big city as far away from spartanburg south carolina as possible but still in the usa dont want to go anywhere outside of the us it has to have a good history program and pre law and a diverse student body. Some place that has study abroad programs and honors societys and plenty of student organizations. as far as weather i do not care if i freeze and its cold as heck or if i burn up due to the sun. I would like the school to be a private 4 year college.</p>
<p>uc berkeley is not a private lol</p>