<p>gooddd luck guys! that’s awesome you should be proud</p>
<p>OK here’s my story, I didn’t necessarily get rejected and accepted to the same school but yea…here it is…</p>
<p>So in high school I was a terrible slacker, no motivation whatsoever. My GPA was literally a 2.0 and my SATs were awful. So I applied to some schools, lets just say my reach was Rutgers NB. I had no idea about colleges and just applied anywhere. So surprise surprise i dont get into Rutgers and end up going to Rider U. A small school in NJ, after a year there and seeing Cornell, where we dropped off my sister, I decide I need to get my act together. I pull a 3.3 and get some schools to transfer to. I get into Syracuse and heres where I am! What i’m saying is that in high school, i couldnt even dream of going to Syracuse and Rutgers was a reach! But now I’m at a school ranked above Rutgers! So I kind of went above it. And although Cuse isn’t top 10 like all you brainiacs, I’m happy here and find myself surrounded by driven people. So yea follow your heart and go where you’ll be happy. Prestige isn’t everything you know.</p>
<p>What a motivating thread!</p>
<p>Well, I also fit this bad HS/good college record…</p>
<p>By the time I dropped out of HS, I had a 2.67 gpa (though I eventually obtained a HS diploma equivalent). My first run-in at the community college was abysmal–think 0.8 gpa cumulative from several years in several community colleges. I had an epiphany and since then the last 2 years have been 3.95 in 60 units of a biochemistry major.</p>
<p>I’m applying for Fall 2008 transfer and I haven’t heard back from any schools, so there’s no happily ever after yet. But those are the most boring endings anyways, right? =)</p>
<p>Good luck to all the transfers out there and everyone that’s made a 180!</p>
<p>i wonder how much the hs record will count when i am transfering to ivies, and colleges like stanford, duke, jhu, and mcgill? (i plan to transfer after two years).</p>
<p>It will matter to all of them. It will matter a great deal to Duke, Stanford and the ivies(IMO if you don’t have a stellar high school record or a significant hook then you have a better chance of winning the lottery)</p>
<p>Your college record better be flawless if you expect to even get consideration at top schools, that and your reasons and essay need to be extraordinary. JHU and Mcgill probably place less emphasis on your high school record. </p>
<p>Apply to Stanford and the other elite schools if you like but realize what you are up against. Remember that Yale, Stanford and Duke are probably the hardest schools to transfer into in the country even if you have a great high school record.</p>
<p>I hope I can post a success story. My college GPA isn’t as high as alot of other people here (a 3.65) but I’m at a good college (Bard) and hopefully that will open doors for me.</p>
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<p>Could you win the lottery and buy your way into the schools without having any of the requirements?</p>
<p>rofl. what do you mean by a “stellar” high school record? as in ranked in the top 20, with a sprinkling of b’s, or top 10 with distinguished honor roll?</p>
<p>oh crap, I forgot we had a “bubbler” applicant on here, please elucidate for us what it takes to be the most competitive transfer applicant of all time.</p>
<p>that had nothing to do with my post or antying i said.</p>
<p>me hopefully? after this year…we’ll wait and see…:-</p>
<p>“that had nothing to do with my post or antying i said”</p>
<p>you catch on straightaway don’t you?</p>
<p>does that mean that everyone who gets into duke and stanford have amazing hs records? probably for the majority but im sure that there are a few people who dont have great records, but your point is still valid. The competition is very tough. My hs record is NOT at all impressive as well as my test scores. </p>
<p>I also plan on applying to emory, northwestern, jhu, mcgill, cornell, stanford, duke, upenn, wu in st.louis, and vanderbilt for transfer.</p>
<p>of these i know duke, stanford, cornell, and upenn are going to be really tough so im not expecting to get in, and the fact that i’m brown (indian) is not going to help either. However i would love to go to JHU, thats what im really shooting for.</p>
<p>Im also considering berkley and umich ann arbor. But since both of these are state schools, i don’t know how ridiculous it will be for an out of state person (me) to transfer to.</p>
<p>I haven’t started college yet, im still a senior in hs but im planning to apply for junior standing.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to disparage you for your bad record( I can all but guarantee mine is worse) I’m just trying to let you know your realistic chances.(not that I’m an authority, of course) </p>
<p>You sound like you have a very good list and with a great college record I’m sure you will get into quite a few of them. Beware of Berkeley though, according to what I’ve read it is notoriously difficult for OOS transfers; probably the hardest in the US along with UCLA. They both take very few for OOS transfer.</p>
<p>OMG, I just found out my GPA (my very first quarter at Northwestern), and it’s a 3.9!!! I’m taking all 300-level courses. I take this as validation of my (probaby borderline) acceptance :)</p>
<p>Congratulations, that is definitely a good achievement.</p>
<p>where are you applying san? are you applying this year or next? and how come you got quarter grades so late? we got semester grades three months ago</p>
<p>Hoping to be a success story. </p>
<p>Failed last semester of my senior year. 3.3 GPA UW.
1400 on the OLD SAT (Junior Year). Second year at a CC, 3.9 GPA.
Mayor’s Youth Council. Working 25 hours a week.</p>
<p>I think this thread may be the best place to ask.</p>
<p>My background is a little different in the sense that I do not have a bad HS record. Since I’m Canadian (and therefore an international transfer applicant) we had no GPA, just an average. Mine was 93 for my combined junior senior years.</p>
<p>I’ve been in college for 2 years (3 semesters since I took one off for an internship) and my current gpa is 4.26/4.30 which is very good, putting me in the top 3% of the entire college.</p>
<p>Only problem? My SAT score blows. And I’m not being one of those ‘I only got a 2200’ kids. It really superbly blows. 1810. I only took it this January for the first time since SATs aren’t in the Quebec education system and only did it because it was required by my transfer choices.</p>
<p>My question is: Do I still have a shot at Columbia, Yale and Stanford? (the 3 schools I applied to as a junior transfer) :(</p>
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ivy-transfer, I indicated that it’s validation of my acceptance, which means I already transferred. </p>
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Yes, as you might know, the quarter system is different from the semester system… our quarter ended just this past week.</p>