<p>High School record: Not stellar (depression due to parental separation)
Cumulative SAT: 1850
SAT IIs: Not worth mentioning</p>
<p>Sex: Male
Ethnicity: African-American
Honors Student, University of Hartford
College Stats and timeline:</p>
<p>•School: Tier 4
•1st Semester Freshman Year:
-Credit Hours: N/A
-Class levels: All Freshman
-Declared Major: Political Science
-College: Arts & Sciences
-Joined Pre-Law Society
-Elected Freshman Class President to Student Government
-Elected to Executive Council of Government and Law Society
-Wrote an article for University newspaper
-Joined Mock Trial
-Drank too much coffee mid-semester and had to withdraw. Found out afterwards that I have a cerebral caffeine allergy. Great. Lots of Ws on 1st Semester transcript (≈8?)</p>
<p>•2nd Semester Freshman Year (post-recovery):
-Credit Hours: 0
-Class levels: All Freshman
-13 Credits, 12 after withdrawing from one class
-Still Frosh. Class President
-Still Gov’t & Law Soc. Executive
-Quit Mock Trial
-Co-founded statewide student organization (legislative lobbying, etc)
-Obtained (informal, non-credit) Senate internship at State Capitol</p>
<p>•Summerterm (still Freshman):
-Credit Hours Earned: 12
-Credits: 12 (including 2 Honors classes)
-GPA: 3.48
-Class Levels: All Freshman
-Joined Obama Campaign - (Student) Town Captain
-Joined campaign of former supervising Senator</p>
<p>•1st Semester Sophomore Year (current):
-Credit Hours Earned: 24
-Credits: 15
-GPA: 3.69
-Class Levels: 2 Freshman, 2 Sophomore, 1 Junior
-Sigma Alpha Pi (∑Aπ)
-Registered voters since late August at university and in community (≤120)
-Re-elected to Gov’t and Law Society Executive Council
-Elected (incumbent) as Sophomore Class President
-Joined Campus-wide Residence Hall Council
-Joined regional Young Democrats group
-Founded College Democrats chapter at university
-Obtained internship with state Attorney General</p>
<p>waaaaaay out of reach, not even close…one year with a 3.5 from a tier 4 school with poor hs stats and your applying to yale? you need to get realistic</p>
<p>well…everything is possible… If you can write a great piece of essay on your struggle against your fate, you might have a chance. Some of the great schools need unique people. However, your academic history is a concern, since they also need to make sure you will be able to do the work there. Good luck!</p>
<p>agreed with everyone else this is just unrealistic, this is not just a small reach this is a michael jordan leap through the air from the free throw line dunk type reach</p>
<p>op - it does sound like you’re reaching a little high - if you really want to transfer, maybe you should look for more colleges that would be more of a match for you. I’m sorry, it’s just my advice. I can kind of symphathize, I’m looking to transfer to cornell as well, and to be perfectly blunt, my stats are way higher than yours but it’s still a big reach for me.</p>
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<li>3.69 is my current GPA. I’m applying for Fall 2009 admission.</li>
<li>I currently have 24 credits. After this semester I’ll have 39. After Winterterm (3 classes, 3 credits each) I’ll have 48. After my study abroad in Washington or the UK (12 credits in all) I’ll have 60. By then, I expect my GPA to be higher than it is now.</li>
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<p>overachiever my man, you gotta get your GPA to at a 3.9 at the very least. If that isn’t possible getting into those schools will be difficult, but if you work hard you got this son. YOU MY BOY OVERACHIEVER!</p>
<p>you, like everybody else on here, “anticipates” having a higher gpa next year…its obviously possible, but one would think you would have gotten that higher gpa now if it was realistic for you</p>
<p>ok so you have a 3.69 from a tier 4 school with a mess of a high school record…you still have no shot…i have a 3.8 from a top LAC and i would never even think about applying to those schools…this is for your own good, you need to get real with your expectations…if you want to transfer, there are some good state schools (SUNY binghamton) that you might have a reasonable shot at…but yale…columbia…come on…you’re just wasting your time</p>
<p>OP,
You need to use the Search function and read the results from last year, they will give you an idea of the caliber of the students accepted to these schools. A 3.7 from a lower tier college while taking 12 units per semester is an improvement from your HS and first semester in college, but not likely to be up to the level that these schools are looking for.</p>
<p>if we can take a break for a moment in pummeling the sauce out of Overachiever with a very large metaphorical bag of bricks…yo Jesus, where you looking at applying for as a transfer? I’m a 1st year at UVA, and my goal is to get a 3.8. I have no idea what I will actually get, but I mean I’m working hard so I think its definately possible presuming I don’t get addicted to shrooms again (haha…but seriously). If my goal is to transfer to Northwestern, I’m not overreaching am I? I would kill myself if I was viewed the same way everyone views Overachiever. </p>
<p>I value your opinion Jesus, tell me what I want to hear…</p>