<p>Aneece,
are you a junior transfer?</p>
<p>Congrats and good luck to your pending apps!</p>
<p>Yes, Iâm a junior transfer. Thank you.</p>
<p>Current results:</p>
<p>Rejected: University of Chicago, Harvard.</p>
<p>Accepted: UCLA (I can see myUCLA with my academic history and everything), UCSB, UCD, UCSD, Columbia GS.</p>
<p>Pending: Yale, Cornell, Brown, Amherst, Brown, Stanford, UC Berkeley.</p>
<p>I expect to be rejected by all the remaining schools except UCB, but thatâs OK because my wife and I have decided to accept the crazy cost of attendance and go for Columbia.</p>
<p>Congratulations, Mike! :)</p>
<p>Good luck at GS Aneece. I turned it down but it was a hard decision. </p>
<p>BTW ⊠if you have done Phi Theta Kappa you can let fin-aid at GS know and you may get a better scholarship. You would need to have your current PTK rep send a letter of recommendation. I got an extra 2 grand above and beyond the normal âNew Student Incentiveâ but every bit counts. Also, it was guaranteed for each year enrolled.</p>
<p>Why doesnât this thread get a five stars rating? Itâs a good one. :D</p>
<p>Graduated from high school last year with a 2.7 out of 5, currently attending a third tier state school,worked my tail off and got a 3.4 out of 4 GPA and was granted admission to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for next year</p>
<p>What does a 2.7 out of 5 convert to on a 4.0 scale? Your high school is silly for using the 5.0 scale.</p>
<p>I think itâd be a 1-point-something. Yeah, my high school was silly for using a 5.0 scale.</p>
<p>Got into RISD!</p>
<p>Apropos of great college record, how many of you here have ever ordered a custom research paper to ensure an A+ ?</p>
<p>my story is not quite as extreme as others but iâll tell it anyway. i had about a 3.4 in high school unweighted (very mediocre) and similar level of SATs. i got rejected from everywhere i wanted to go and hardly applied anywhere because i was too lazy to fill out the applications. I went to a big public school and was really unhappy there. i ended up with a 4.0 and applied to vassar, brandies, welseyan, connecticut college and suny new paltz.
i got into new paltz and connecticut college so far and im waiting on the rest. it just goes to show that anyone can improve themselves. the most important lesson i learned through this miserable first year is that time passes no matter what. even during the worst of times, the misery ends. good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Wow, milkdud! Congrats on the turnaround, but I want to post here that your original stats could have gotten you into MANY good schools. I mention this just to encourage others.</p>
<p>congrats milkdud!</p>
<p>I currently have somewhat of a failure story, but hopefully it will soon chance. I got about a 3.55 weighted in HS (only took college classes senior year otherwise would have been much higher). TERRIBLE 10th grade gpa is what pulled it down significantly. Grew up a little in the 11th, and dual enrolled in the 12th and grew up so much. First semester got a B+ in one of my 2 college classes (only class I took that used 94-100 A scale and got a 93, I will always be ****ed about that one), but since then have gotten an A in every single class, and will be graduating next week from a CC with an AA and 65 credits. I tested out of a prereq class (computer related) with a B to try to beat a deadline for the university of florida which brought my gpa down .05. Instead of graduating with a 3.98 I will have a 3.93 not that it matters that much. I have taken very heavy courseloads with lots of difficult classes at a time, and it has still been a breeze. I am ready for a real challenge.</p>
<p>Anyways, despite my stellar gpa (which I know should be a 4.0, but w/e as much as it bothers me my 3.93 is still great) I was DENIED acceptance into warrington college of business at UF, because of budget problems that just happened. They cut admissions substantially, and even admitted they didnât get around to looking at my application or considering it because I sent it in close to the deadline. They are real pricks, and I am glad I was denied now because I will be going to a better school. I am heavily leaning toward BYU now even though I am not mormon. The people in the school of business told me I would almost certainly be accepted and enter straight into the marriott school of business which is an excellent school which pulls recruiters from over 400 companies (including almost all the major i banks). Florida gets practically none compared to that. I think I will be better off in the end. Plus the party school doesnât really fit me, but I am from gainesville is why I was going to go to UF. I canât believe I might be moving to Utah, but it is pretty exciting to be going to a great school like that regardless of the fact I will only be among 2% non mormon. BYU is my top choice at this point, I donât mind the campus atmosphere and think is it much more conducive to learning than you typical party school which is pretty much 95% of other universities. Plus I am not big into that anyways, so I think it will be a welcome environment. The cost even for non LDS members is unbelievably cheap for a private school, and between the ranking by BW at #7 overall, the excellent recruiting despite its location, distraction free lifestyle, and not being known for harsh grading all make it feel like the right school for me.</p>
<p>I have a very bitter taste in my mouth from that florida experience though, and will never put all my eggs in one basket again. I think I will get into byu, but will apply elsewhere also, W&M, maryland, IU, FSU, and maybe a few others. I would have got in florida though if not for the budget problems with the entire state, but I think I will be better off taking some time off from school. I am already a whole year ahead of where my HS graduating class should be. There are plenty of schools I would love going to, but the fact I never took the SAT or ACT, and many schools prereq requirements for there business programs are different than what I have (took the classes UF required, bus calc, stats, micro & macro econ, fin. & man. accounting, computer class) keeps a LOT of schools as being options for me. I feel my best realistic option is BYU. I feel I will get a great education, great job prospects (also doesnât hurt my uncles best friend is a VP at goldman sachs and has been with them over 25 years), and I will likely be debt free after college and this one is VERY important to me personally. I donât want to be $50k or more in debt after I graduate. If I donât graduate summa or whatever byu designates highest honors I will be disappointed. Itâs amazing how it went from not caring in HS to being upset that I only got a 3.93 (but i still believe i earned an A in the B+ medical class, and that credit by exam I got is no fault of mine, I walked in no practice, took the test (which was way harder than I expected), and still got a B. It is good to see all these success stories though! I am feeling much more confident I will be getting multiple acceptance letters this go around. I got kind of carried away in this post, I hope I donât come across as arrogant or cocky, I just donât understand how I got denied from UF regardless of how bad their budget is. My mom graduated summa cum laude from there which is why I wanted to go, but I am looking forward to BYU assuming I get in. They have such little diversity that it works in my favor I am not mormon because almost none of us apply per there admissions office (a very candid student working in the office).</p>
<p>Thats weird hermanns because florida law states that with your AA from a CC that your guaranteed a stop into a any florida university. I understand the budgets cuts that are happening, but that has almost nothing to do with student enrollment. The budget cuts are going to affect classes offered, tuition, faculty lay offs and pay, and a bunch of minor things⊠I feel really bad about the whole UF thing, hope everything works out in BYU or wherever you go.</p>
<p>Your not actually guaranteed into any florida university, just A florida university. That might mean UCF, USF, or UNF. UF and FSU have no guarantees. UF already committed to reducing transfer students by 1/3 for this summer, next fall, and next spring. The business school cut back a ton because the cost to run per student is higher than most other schools. The reason for these cutbacks is because florida will not let them raise there tuition, or at least not more than a few %. This is because bright futures is % based so if tuition goes up, the amount the state has to pay for each student with BF goes up. </p>
<p>I am OK with the fact that I am not going to UF, but I am ****ed about the way it happened. Whatever though, I am going to move on and go to a better school at least.</p>
<p>how hard is it to transfer into UC Berkley as an out of state student w/crappy h.s. stats? Does Berkely give heavy emphasis to h.s. performance?</p>
<p>Yeah, CCG, I live in Florida and happen to know that the budget cuts ARE affecting admissions (enrollment), pretty significantly, actually. Not just transfer admissions, either; I heard FAU is REJECTING people this year! And yeah, the AA guarantees admission into a Florida school, but not necessarily THE Florida school of your choice. And UF and FSU are both significantly more competitive than UCF, USF, UNF, FAU, and any other relatively crappy FL state school that may have been forgotten here⊠UF, especially, is more competitive than the others. UF is largely regarded as âthe bestâ school here, in terms of ranking, prestige, etc (though FSU is close behind).</p>
<p>Hermanss: I feel for you! I was in a similar situation very, very recently⊠The FSU deadline for transfers was moved up with no warning or notification, due to budget cuts. I logged back into my online application one day, well before the supposed deadline, only to find that I could no longer submit it for Fall! (AND FSU IS MY SAFETY.) It wouldnât let me proceed without selecting Spring 2009 as my desired term of entry⊠I emailed the address provided for âhelpâ, and received a very prompt, formal email back stating that the deadline had been moved up suddenly because of budget cuts (and FSU âreserves the rightâ to do so); FSU was over-enrolled. But I didnât give up! </p>
<p>I talked to a professor who loves me. He called FSU, and spoke to the person who actually sent me that email, a relatively friendly Mr. Miller, who told my professor to have me call personally. So I called, and I spoke with him. He suggested I go ahead and submit my app for Spring, and then write a formal appeal. I did so (highlighting how I was not informed of the change in deadline, etc),
andâŠ</p>
<p>I got an email back from the assistant director of admissions! She told me to call her. I called her. She changed it to Fall for me. Long story, happy ending! I guess persistence pays off sometimes.</p>
<p>Erm, soâŠyou can no longer apply to FSU for Fall. (I noticed you listed FSU as one of the schools you might still apply to.) But, if it comes down to that, you can still apply for Spring. (I applied to UF for Spring!! Trying to keep my options openâŠ) Anyway, hereâs my main point: I know you might think they are real pricks, but if you still REALLY want UF (at all), getting frustrated with the admissions committee is not the way to go (although I agree that whatâs happening is really ****ty, to say the least). </p>
<p>You should look into the appeal process at UF. If you can, write a good appeal! Spend time on it. Get people in power on your side; at least try to. Itâs not impossible. !!!</p>
<p>Or not. I mean, if youâre happy with BYU, or any other option, stick with thatâŠbut if youâre truly upset about UF, try to do something about it. It seems youâre definitely qualified to go there.</p>
<p>The budget cuts are pretty terrible.</p>
<p>Supindy:</p>
<ol>
<li> very hard</li>
<li> yes</li>
</ol>
<p>I graduated high school with a 2.1 overall gpa and no extracurriculars or reccs. I went to community college for two years and I just got my acceptance letter from UCLA as a comm major! I find out from Berkeley tommorow</p>