Transfer Chance from WVU, Rejected Last Year

WVUEng
Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:54:10 +0000

Hello CC!

This is my first post, I have referenced some CC threads in the past and I have always found good information, so please don’t let me down now!

Here are my high school stats:
GPA 3.2 weighted, I don’t know what it was unweighted, but I only took two weighted classes (my parents wouldn’t let me take AP courses)
AP Test Scores: BC Calc 4 Physics 1 (I’ll explain this)
SAT: Math 620 Reading 610 Writing 570
ACT: Around 27, I don’t remember exactly
I’m in-state.
Extracurricular:
4-h Camp Counselor of the year '07,'08, '09.
Passed the NOCTI Electronics Technology Exam
Vice President of the 4-H Club 09-10
Treasurer of the 4-H Club 06-09

I was one of those kids that never really found an main interest in highschool, but I truly have developed into a great student. My Freshman year I got involved in some things that definitely wouldn’t been appropriate for a future college student.(I have no criminal record or anything of that sort, but I was distracted greatly from my studies)

Soph. year my grades picked up, from a 2.7 to a 2.9, and then junior year I earned a 3.2. Senior year I earned about a 3.9 weighted, and I really busted my ass to get good grades. I barely convinced my father to let me take AP Calculus (It was really one of the only classes I really enjoyed, and it made me want to pursue engineering). I actually am thinking about going for a CS degree with a Math minor, but that’s definitely not going to be at WVU.

Now I am an engineering major at West Virginia, and I am finding myself in the minority. Everyone here seems to have studying as a secondary focus, with partying and socializing the primary one. I am earning a 4.0 this semester, and I intend to earn another 4.0 next semester. I am taking 19 credit hours and I might take more to make a few personal goals.

As for my physics AP Score, my AP Physics teacher was straight out of retirement, and he didn’t expect to teach an AP course. We had one student from my class go to MIT, and he got the highest score of the class, a 3 on the AP test.

Sorry if that was a lot of text, but I feel that I had to make my case =].