<p>HS GPA of 2.4 and College GPA of 3.62 with 69 credits amassed. However took two yrs. off and worked at a neuro science lab, did advertising/marketing for a sports agency, tutored students in Chemistry/math. But never took the SAT’S</p>
<p>What are my chances of getting into Carnegie Mellon, Lehigh university, GWU, Colgate University, University of Michigan?</p>
<p>Michigan, GWU, Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon don’t reqire the SAT’S. However what about my dismal HS GPA?</p>
<p>Pyt: Since you don’t have any stats, the sky’s the limit. But be careful, Stanford, Columbia, Brown and UChicago hate transfer students. With a strong showing you shouldn’t have a lot of trouble getting into at least a couple of those schools. </p>
<p>WMTRIBE: A college GPA of 3.62 is too low for Carnegie Mellon regardless of your HS stuff, and a little low for Lehigh. I’d say you have a shot at Lehigh, but because of your HS record you’d need to hit above the mark for it to be convincing. A 3.62 probably won’t cut it, sorry. Maybe because you’ve done a lot outside of college. </p>
<p>You should have a shot at GWU and Michigan. Don’t know much about Colgate.</p>
<p>I thought everyone should know that Wake Forest University doesn’t accept any credit from a two yr Community College. However, you can still be admitted, but you have to start as a freshman all over again. My advice don’t apply to WF.</p>
<p>DAVID</p>
<p>Again, not as drastic as some people here…</p>
<p>I graduated with a 3.3 (88/100) GPA from one of the best public schools in NYC. I tackled almost all the most difficult courses available at my school, including 6 AP classes. I got a 2020 (1350) SAT score and a 31 ACT score which I ended up submitting. My SAT II’s were mediocre (660 US History and 670 Math I), but I tried to avoid submitting them whenever I could get away with just ACTs. Senior year, I failed a Discrete Math course (hardest class I’ve ever taken) and barely passed AP Chem and AP Calculus BC. I passed everything in the spring, but still had a 65 in AP Chem and Discrete Math and a 75 in Calculus.</p>
<p>I had fantastic extracurrics (nationally competitive violist with many scholarships and 3 Carnegie Hall performances) and fencing team captain and recommendations. Still, I was rejected at the majority of the schools I applied to: Penn, Cornell, NYU, Boston College, Middlebury, Northwestern… My low GPA and mediocre essays undoubtedly brought me down.</p>
<p>I am now attending SUNY Binghamton, which is the best state school in NY and the sixth best public school in the country. I am planning on working my butt off here (an am doing just that) to get a 3.8 + GPA and reapplying to Cornell and Penn. I realize my chances are slim with my HS record, which is why I’m doing my best to have a great GPA and extracurrics, and working on my essays way in advance.</p>
<p>Hope things work out for us…</p>
<p>Everyone:</p>
<p>I just want some advice from everyone. I’m currently attending the University of Hartford. During my high school career, I participated in an immersive program called the Civics and Government Institute, but was suffering from depression due to my parents’ separation. Needless to say, I didn’t do as well as I could, though I did take a few AP classes (3, I think). I graduated with a 3.1 GPA, a cumulative 1850 SAT, under 1300 on 2 SAT subject tests (Math and Language Arts) and nearly no other extracurriculars, except for a poetry club, a climbing club and a video game club. My first semester Freshman year, I had a nervous breakdown and had to be hospitalized. By now, I’d already been elected to two executive positions in two of the biggest clubs on campus, and had a Spring internship with the CT state capitol secured. When I came back, though, I took 4 classes and 4 more classes in the summer. I now have a 3.69 GPA and fantastic extracurriculars (Atty gen. intern, founder of Coll. Dems, etc.) and am doing as best I can to get my GPA to at least a 4.0. Everyone I meet here tells me that my prospective transfer schools (Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Georgetown, American) are out of my reach, and I acknowledge that they might be right. As a political science major, though, I don’t know where else to go. I want to get a good education, but I also don’t want to have another breakdown. Can anyone give me any advice?</p>
<p>Advice:</p>
<p>Spend more time studying and less time posting the exact same question all over this message board.</p>
<p>You’ll thank me later.</p>
<p>I love this thread because it’s a beacon of light in the time of depressed spirits and financial morass. It gives hopefuls a second chance at realizing their potential and another try at rebuilding their confidence at having not done well at high school. This thread sings the song of change, tells the story of understanding and most importantly heralds humanistic tenets (encouragements, sympathy and understanding) that are often relegated to chasms in this dog-eat-dog world. While graduating from prestigious universities are integral, they don’t count the most in the build-up of a holistic being. </p>
<p>I screwed up my GCE O levels (3Bs and 2Cs) because I was fooling around (got jailed for rioting and theft and was deemed a criminal recidivist and societal disgrace by teachers and kin alike. I’ve since changed after I’ve been counseled by a Christian pastor) and didn’t have a full A level certificate; couldn’t get into a university in my home country (You need at least 2Bs and 1C for the GCE A levels here). </p>
<p>Went on to do a Dip and Advanced Dip in Mass Comm in a private institution and got practically straight As with probably 1 or 2 Bs.</p>
<p>It probably didn’t count for much but I got accepted to Journalism at Michigan State University and General Studies at University of Nebraska – Lincoln.</p>
<p>Intend to work hard at wherever I’m going to go to and transfer the sophomore year to hopefully somewhere like UMich or North Carolina.</p>
<p>In highschool i was unmotivated. i had no idea what to do or which classes to take in order to get into a good university. my senior year i ended up with a 2.2 GPA. Miraculously i got into Eastern Washington University and am currently enrolled there. I am a Freshman and I currently have a 3.9 GPA and have made the dean’s list. I am taking 18 credits this quarter and another 22 next quarter (40 credits combined in 2 quarters). I also am involved with a couple ECs. I am planning on attending the University of Washington in the fall and an admission specialist let me know that as long as i have 40 credits by the time i appy i do not have to send in my high school transcripts or SAT/ACT scores. i am extremely thrilled and am hoping for the best!</p>
<p>I’m currently attending Penn State and have changed my act so I can reapply to UPenn’s Wharton School of Business where I really want to go. Has anybody else had success transferring to an Ivy from a state school who wasn’t in the honors college? Thanks!</p>
<p>Anybody have any input??</p>
<p>good thread indeed</p>
<p>when you guys transferred, was it in-state or out-of state? If it was in-state did you guys do some kind of program for the particular school while you were at CC?</p>
<p>High school GPA: 1.9
CC GPA: 3.62 [that’s with two failed courses my second semester.]</p>
<p>Applied: SUNY Geneseo, Mt. Holyoke, and Amherst ( lol ).
Accepted: SUNY Geneseo & Mt. Holyoke. Amherst will wait until JUNE to tell me I didn’t get in, those lallygaggers.</p>
<p>I love this thread.</p>
<p>I’ll try to keep this short, if anybody wants to know more just pm me and I’d be glad to share (although for the life of me I can’t imagine anyone wanting to know more, it just seems appropriate to offer)…</p>
<p>I dropped out of high school at 17, I think at that point my gpa was probably around 2.9 although to be honest there were so many incompletes that it may have, in reality, been much, much lower. I’d rather not delve into the reasoning behind my dropping out (there wasn’t much), but suffice it to say I immediately moved out. For the next 4 or 5 years I worked dead end job after dead end job. I’m not talking about the kind with suits and ties or pension plans or even the option of health insurance; I’m talking about the kind that involves taking out the trash and asking if you’d like fries with that. Anyways, a little less than two years ago I decided to move away from my hometown for good to get my act together. I found a community college in my new home city that didn’t require me to have a high school diploma, or even a GED (I didn’t get that until the summer after my first semester), and signed up for classes. Anyways, it has been a little over a year and a half, I’m wrapping up my last semester, and waiting on decisions from a couple more schools before I make my decision on where I’ll be attending next fall. Based on the letters I’ve received so far it looks like I’ll be attending UMich Ann Arbor next semester. I’ve also been fortunate enough to meet some people with similar beginnings, probably the most impressive is the head of a science department at a national university who after about 10 years of working in a pizza joint after high school ended up at Stanford. Anyways, great thread guys, I hope my story can help somebody out there in some small way.</p>
<p>What if someone has a high college gpa, 50/50 mixture of difficult and easier classes (some of the easier ones were required) and a mediocre high school record (3.1)? Would the easier classes really bring down their chances dramatically?</p>
<p>Also, are courses’ difficulties established simply based upon their course number or are there other factors as well?</p>
<p>No, of course not. What is important is what you’re doing now and what you are doing is getting a high GPA.</p>
<p>Seems like others think differently</p>
<p>I would agree with honora somewhat. I’m pretty sure practically all colleges have some sort of gen ed requirement, and first year advisers typically won’t approve of having all business courses in your schedule. </p>
<p>AOs know this, its a matter of how well you do. Doing this while having a large course load is a real positive. Getting a 3.8 with 18 credits is more appealing than a 4.0 with 14 credits. It show’s that you can handle a lot of work at once, and have good time management. Just make sure you get in all the transfer pre reqs.</p>
<p>Obviously all schools have different course #s. If you are an attractive applicant I think they look more in depth into your courses and sometimes the AOs will ask for course descriptions or look them up on their database.</p>
<p>Freshman at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. 93rd university in the country, according to USNWR. Made a 2.9 in high school, bleh SAT (2000 or so)</p>
<p>Classes and grades this year were:
World Lit I (A)
Calculus II (B)
Historical Geology (A)
Logic (A)
Intro to Political Thought (A)
Hon World Lit II (A)
Hon World History II (A)
General Physics I (B)
Hon Political Economy (A)
Architectural History (A)</p>
<p>Next year, I’m pursuing more honors classes, in addition to advanced histories. I’ll get the Junior Honors Diploma at the end of next year, which means I’ve completed the first half of the honors program. Planning to end up around a 3.8 or 3.9, depending on the grade I make in Gen Physics II. Apart from GPII, though, I’m pulling straight A’s next year, I’m pretty sure.</p>
<p>Planning to transfer at the end of next year. Places I’m looking at sending apps to are:</p>
<p>Columbia
NYU
Chapel Hill
Reed
Berkeley</p>
<p>Which of these do you think I might be able to get into?</p>