Special Transfer chances from PSU- fall2008

racnna
Tue, 29 May 2007 11:42:03 +0000

Also, racnna, what is your GPA, and what have you been doing at psu?

My G.P.A is currently a 3.61. I really hope i can get it over a 3.7 by the time i apply. I havn’t done much besides math and chem tutoring and i did an NSF REU research chem E internship after freshman year. I play musical instruments too and just started composing musicl but that’s more like a hobby.

I am taking one honors course next semester, and it is very demanding. I will also be talking calc II, so I don’t want overload with more than 17 credits. My goal is to raise my gpa to a 3.8 by next semester, we will see…

Yeah you can definitely get it over a 3.75 without overloading. And if you want to overload pick some easy gen ed honors course so that they wont think you were just looking for an easy A. Although IMO it’s just as easy to get an A in a gen ed honors course as it is to get an A in a regular course

So, have you taken any honors courses? from experience, it is very difficult to take them if you are not in schreyer as the honors coordinators will try very hard to persuade you to drop the course before the semester even starts.

It’s so funny you brought that up coz that happened to me this past semester. I was going to take chem 39H(honors orgo chem) and this teacher goes "If you didn’t take chem 38H it’s a pretty bold move enrolling in 39H’- so i drpped the class immediately- turns out the class was NOT HARD AT ALL!! in fact, it was much easier than the regular section. And only ONE person got below a ‘B.’ So don’t let the coordinators dissuade you from taking honors courses. Seriously, they shouldn’t even be telling you what to do.

Contrary to what many think, the honors courses are really not ‘harder’ than the regular sections at all- it’s just a different kind of work. I’ve taken English 30H, Chem 13H, Theatre 105H and Chem 36H so far.