<p>I'm a first year at the University of Richmond from NJ. I don't really like it here for a variety of reasons. I'd prefer to go to a bigger state school where I can still get a quality education. I was wondering if anyone could suggest any schools that might fit my preferences... here are my stats:
HS GPA: weighted:4.1; unweighted: 3.8
College GPA: probably going to be a 2.5 or 3... oops. However I did take classes at Johns Hopkins University while I was still in high school and my GPA there was about 3.5 or 3.6, so I think that proves that I am capable of handeling the college work load, just not in the envoirnment that I am in now.
SAT1: 1990; Writing:640 Math: 680 Critical Reading: 670
SATII: Math 1C: 610 French:680
Intended Major: French and International Business
Extracurriculars: in high school: piano (recieved an honors award) highly involved in the Latin and French Honor Societies, worked as a waitress Senior year, volunteered at the local hospital and at a children's summer camp, was involved in a drug prevention program, worked on the yearbook staff, there's probably something I'm forgetting...</p>
<p>I'm looking for a state school that is well-known for their business programs and has a good or decent French department. I am not too sure about how transfer acceptance rates relate to regular acceptance rates at all so I don't know which schools I should consider. Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestion!! I actually visited UNC-Chapel Hill when I was in high school and looking at colleges. I liked it a lot but decided not to apply because I didn't think I had a chance since I was from out-of-state. I just looked at the website and they said that for transfer students, they don't take residency into account! </p>
<p>Is it too much of a reach though?</p>
<p>apply, but send in mid-semester grades for next semester...if they see an upward trend, you should be fine</p>
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<p>No...but I believe you'll have to spend a year there before transferring into the business school.</p>
<p>Thanks, I'll definitely look into that. Are there any others that would be good matches similar to UNC-Chapel Hill? UVA? University of Florida? How are they on transfer acceptance rates? University of Florda's website says it is very competitve for students to transfer in as sophomores... is this true? Is there any website out there that has transfer acceptance rates so that I can get an idea?</p>
<p>UVA wouldn't be a match - more of a reach since they consider residency. UF...I'm not sure, but my friend was recently admitted there with a decent GPA (like 3.5-3.7) from a Texas CC...so it can't be too incredibly competitive.</p>
<p>i wouldnt apply to UVA...even though they have 40% Trate, you're OOS which means its ridiculously hard</p>
<p>Thank you both for your advice! brand- was your friend applying to be a soph. or junior to UF?</p>
<p>Hmmm, they say on their web site </p>
<p>"Freshman/Sophomore Applicants (Lower Division Students)
Transfer students with 13 - 59 transferable semester hours from a regionally accredited institution by the time they enter the university.</p>
<p>Requirements</p>
<p>Foreign language proficiency
Minimum of 1400 SAT or 33 ACT
Minimum 4.0 high school GPA as calculated by the University of Florida
Minimum 3.0 academic college GPA (with no deficit record at any institution)"</p>
<p>Did your friend have a 1400 and a 4.0 in high school?</p>
<p>hahaha doubtful. she's gonna get a B or C in biology. </p>
<p>I dunno. She's in though - goin there cause of her boyfriend. Maybe they waived the requirements since her reason for transferring was "love." :D</p>
<p>lol, that's cute! And that makes me feel better about my chances too :) Why would they say that on their webstite though?</p>
<p>That's a good point. I would definitely take the school's word over anything...maybe she's brilliant and she just sucks at Biology.</p>
<p>transfer on the case of love? hahaha i should do that and look up a Harvard student.</p>
<p>oh! hey how bout emailing a professor and telling him that your really interested in his class. you think that would help out with admissions?</p>
<p>I don't think professors have anything to do with the admissions process. When I applied to Richmond, my dad's friend, who was a dean here, put in a letter with my application saying what a great person I was. (This was against my will.) But the point was that he told me that it probably wouldn't matter in their decision to accept me or not... and I hope it didn't I didn't want to have an unfair advantage.</p>
<p>So are there any more schools out there for me?? I kind of want more than one school to apply to...</p>