<p>I have a 35 ACT score and as a freshman, if I were to hypothetically maintain a 3.7+ GPA this year at SUNY Binghamton, where do you think I could transfer?</p>
<p>you can apply wherever you want..... haha.</p>
<p>But seriously, where can I get in? How exactly does this process work, I mean, are my high school grades weighed heavily, are my essays weighed heavily? There are a lot of people who apply as transfers and only a small number are accepted. With those stats, how can I insure acceptance to a top school?</p>
<p>depends on your high school stats...nothing will ensure you admission to a top school. With only a year done, your high school stats will matter a lot along with test scores.</p>
<p>with good recs and assuming your high school is good you could theoretically go anywhere with a 3.7+</p>
<p>My high school record is okay. I took something like 11 college classes (8 of them AP) over the course of the 4 years and had a 93.5 weighted GPA. This GPA is what kept me out of the Ivy-level the first time around, and so I'm wondering if a 3.7+ could counteract that.</p>
<p>Can you translate your 93.5 GPA to the 4.0 scale?</p>
<p>its approx a 3.74 if he's going by the regular system...</p>
<p>zemookmook, that's not how you translate the GPA....</p>
<p>i think they told me it was a ~3.8 weighted.</p>
<p>"with good recs and assuming your high school is good you could theoretically go anywhere with a 3.7+"</p>
<p>theoretically. but I'd aim for the highest you can get since "anywhere" includes all of the top schools, and a lot of students at top schools with GPAs above 3.7 like to jump around for fun so you wanna get your GPA above theirs.</p>
<p>Any specific advice for me?</p>
<p>Just follow the formula: Good GPA, Good Recs, Good Ecs, and wirte a Good Essay. I call it the Goods of Transfer.</p>
<p>No, but if I were to apply to, say, an Ivy as a transfer, how competitive of a candidate would I be, considering what I've said about my stats.</p>
<p>A weighted 3.8...? Honestly, you would fare much better as a junior transfer if you're looking primarily at "the ivies."</p>
<p>My point is, if I get a, hypothetically, 3.8+ here, why would it matter what I got in high school? A 3.8+ proves that I am extremely proficient at college work plus a 35 ACT is near-perfect so um....explain?</p>
<p>it would still MATTER per se, they can't just 'not see' your high school, but they will definitely take all that into account and understand that you have realized your potential, etc.</p>
<p>EDIT: and the point is, the more college years you have completed at high achievement, the less they will consider it</p>
<p>The curve for the graph would be downward slope. Like a demand curve.
As x (the units you have taken in college) increases, the y (the importance of high school GPA) decreases.</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p><em>excited</em></p>
<p>To be more precise!
The elasticity for the curve is pretty high if the x is lower than 30.
The moment your x reaches 30, the curve becomes less elastic.</p>
<p>However there is a controversy.</p>
<p>Some believe that the function is more of a step function rather than a linear one, meaning that until you reach 30 units, your high school GPA will matter much equally (whether you have 1 unit or 29 units, your high school gPA will matter to same degree) and when you reach 30 units, your high school GPA suddenly becomes much less important while your college GPA becomes the main factor.</p>