<p>how much do highschool grades matter for a freshman transfer, grade 12 will probably be important but how about grade 11 and so on?</p>
<p>important.</p>
<p>i say it;s up to interpretion. my HS GPA is crap (3.5), because i was a new immigrant. after i got four five and two fours on AP exams and 4.0 in college, i guess it doesn’t matter that much anymore</p>
<p>3.5 is not a bad GPA, I know a lot of students who would kill for that high of a GPA. My High School GPA was a 3.3, which was still better then a lot of people I knew. My GPA now at a CC is a 3.92, and after 2 years my High School grades matter little.</p>
<p>does it depend on the school?</p>
<p>Yes, it does. Divagurl’s blanket statement that it is important was ambitious, but anecdotal at best.</p>
<p>The University of Texas at Austin does not regard HS GPA in the transfer process, and neither do other numerous institutions; Ivy Leagues and other Top 20s do not have a codified policy and, thus, one must rely on statistical data in order to determine its weight. Because so few applicants have been accepted into the likes of Harvard, Columbia, or Yale, it is hard to derive any conclusion from induction, since it would be a hasty generalization.</p>
<p>At colleges that do have relatively higher accept-rates, it is easier to draw a conclusion, but the scope and accuracy of that conclusion will be low. Moreover, it is best to take the (lack of) codification of such a policy as a good sign; if a university refuses to make an official statement on how much a high school GPA counts, it is because there are numerous other factors that will weigh in on the process and these factors often serve as key in shifting focus off of the GPA; in other words, it is difficult to make an official statement or even a crude conclusion, since even if one is able to derive a suitable conclusion about the importance of the HS GPA in the transfer process, such a conclusion would be highly contingent.</p>
<p>how much does highschool matter for Cornell transfers?</p>
<p>I highly suggest calling the admissions office before heeding the secondary advice given on this forum; our resident-expert on transfer admissions, slipper1234, does not appear to be present, so calling is the best alternative.</p>
<p>it usually depends on how many hours you have from college courses.</p>
<p>wow thanks for all the advice guys! ya i’m kind of worried bc i went to hs in Canada and the emphasis was always on senior year (as if the other years did not matter much, as bad as that sounds) so accordingly my grades in senior year of hs are much higher than other years, however i go to u of t, which is considered by many to be one of the most toughest schools to get decent grades in Canada (it’s the largest univ in Canada and they only give out a very small percentage of As) so i was wondering (actually, hoping) if that would shift the focus away from my hs grades, and furthermore my hs does not compute a GPA like that in the US (weighted, unweighted), and ya i do have a full course load, so i guess that would be a sufficient amount of hours im assuming?</p>