<p>My sister is starting as a sophomore at University of Illinois at Chicag (Pre-Pharm). She had a tough time this year and ended up her freshman year with 2.8ish. She has decided to take a year off at her school and prepare to transfer. She has a fair high school stats but crappy ACT.<br>
GPA: 4.1
ACT: 23
President’s Award
no outstanding ecs…</p>
<p>Does she have any chances to any of the schools in California for pre-pharm or chemistry major?</p>
<p>She being an out-of-state and having a relatively low gpa, she has very hard chance of getting into any of the decent UCs (UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego).</p>
<p>The best solution would be for her to move to California to attend a community college until she has 60 semester units (or 90 quarter units) and raise her GPA to at least 3.5 range while participating in TAP (Transfer Alliance Program), then she might have a VERY good chance at UCLA’s Chemistry major (or even UC Berkeley).</p>
<p>If that is not an option, then with 2.8 GPA and out of state and no outstanding ec… she has very hard chance at almost all of UCs. She might have to move to CSU then. But I’d choose University of Illinois at Chicago over CSU anytime.</p>
<p>or, if she has below 30 semester units (45 quarter units), she may have a very slight chance at USC, because if you apply when your units are below 30, USC looks mostly at your high school GPA and SAT/ACT. Her hs GPA’s fantastic, but it’s that ACT score that will be a major obstacle.</p>
<p>Has she withdrawn from Chi-town? Its a terrific school and her HS grades would go to waste if she were to transfer out to a UC (which disregards HS grades for transfers).</p>
<p>But if she is insistent on transferring, I might suggest that she take the CC route and disregard her record from UI-Chicago. Start fresh and do well, and she can transfer to any school she wants to.</p>
<p>Depends on how she does junior year. The lower public UCs (riverside and santa cruz) may take her if she can raise her GPA to above a 3.0 and hasn’t failed any classes. As OOS it’s much more difficult to get into the upper tier publics.</p>
<p>The Cal State University’s would take her, (Cal Poly though would be a reach) and they have some fine med programs. CSULB has a good chem program from what I hear. It’s ranked 26 on USNWR for Masters Universities in the west.</p>
<p>There’s always the private Christian and Catholic schools like Biola, La Vern, and Santa Clara, but I think that would be a step down.</p>
<p>Cal States seem to be the best bet. Or a LAC, but I’m not too familiar with them.</p>
<p>The Claremont colleges are good (Pomona and McKenna would be reaches; Harvey Mudd focuses primarily in math/engineering), particularly Scripps (all women). However, they are expensive (30k per year).</p>
<p>her sister would have no chance what-so-ever with claremonts. They are the top among the top LACs in California.</p>
<p>I think if she was to directly transfer from U of Chicago, then she’d have a bit more chance at Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University.
She just needs to complete 30 transferrable units, and have her gpa up to 3.3 - 3.4 range.</p>
<p>her sister would have no chance what-so-ever with claremonts. They are the top among the top LACs in California.</p>
<p>I think if she was to directly transfer from U of Chicago, then she’d have a bit more chance at Loyola Marymount University and Santa Clara University.
She just needs to complete 30 transferrable units, and have her gpa up to 3.3 - 3.4 range.</p>
<p>My sister is considering USC or Pepperdine. She only completed 1 year of college so her high school stat is more likely to be considered compared to her college stats, right?
Does she have any chances to these schools?
Oh, how about Occidental…</p>
<p>yeah…big from 4.1 to 2.8…that’s a pretty huge drop in gpa</p>
<p>they might take that into consideration also</p>
<p>I don’t know if USC or Pepperdine do first year transfers. But I havn’t looked into it either so…</p>
<p>anyone else know about the pepperdine or occidental?</p>
<p>Pepperdine, from what I know, can be particularly unpredictable when it comes to admission decisions. Also worth noting is that special importance is often, for obvious reasons, placed on religious involvement.</p>