Chance Me (4 Year/Community College Transfer)

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hello!
I have a pretty interesting college career:

In high school, I was not a good student by any means.

-3.1 GPA in all Honors/AP classes
-SAT 1260/1600
-4 on AP Bio / 3 on AP Stats
-Not many ECs

I was, however, a pretty good athlete. I was recruited to play lacrosse at multiple schools, I ended up playing Division 1 lacrosse at Stony Brook University. I ended the year with a 3.98 GPA as a Business major. Long story short, I was not a good fit for the school, and my transfer process was severely affected by a serious injury I endured that year.

I ended up transferring to Onondaga Community College to continue playing lacrosse. Nearing the end of my fall semester, I am expecting a 4.0 at the end of this semester with 14 credits.

My passion in business right now is entrepreneurship. Over the last two summers, I have run an auto body and detailing company business has fortunately made me good profit. I have ran a sneaker selling business, affiliate marketing business, and I am always looking for different opportunities.

As far as ECs goes, most of my time is taken up by lacrosse. Besides that, I am a counselor at a summer sleepaway religious camp where I play important roles in media, extracurriculars, marketing, and social media management.

I intend on transferring next fall, and I am planning on applying to schools that I want to attend regardless of lacrosse.
Currently my list features:
-Cornell
-UPenn
-Michigan
-Boston University
-Richmond
-Columbia
-Brown
-NYU

Any feedback is appreciated,
Thanks for reading!

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Have you thought about Babson in Mass? It’s the number 1 school in entrepreneurship for a while now and if that’s your passion you should chase it. It also has a D3 team you could play for.

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@UpstateSriracha I think those are all great schools you have lisy, but most of them are reach schools. I don’t mean for you in particular, I mean for anyone period. It may be helpful to add a few less selective schools in the mix. You seem to be within driving distance of NYC, have you considered some CUNY schools? Baruch is renowned for its business school and it’s affordable tuition. Im only suggesting this because a friend of mines was in on a similar situation as you last year. He had a 4.0 GPA, excellent ECs, and was an underrepresented minority. His essays were excellent and he had really strong recommendation letters. Like you, he applied mostly to reach schools. Unfortunately, he did not get accepted to any of them, but fortunately he had one safety school where he is currently attending. I shutter think what might have happened to him if he hadn’t at least applied to one safety school. So keep up the good work, but definitely open yourself up to some less selective schools :slight_smile: