Hi, thank you for your response! I found a lot of that really helpful.
I should’ve provided context about my HS GPA: we don’t use a 4.0 scale, but if I were to convert the grades I got in those classes from numbers to letters, I think it would be around a 3.8 (primarily A-/A grades). Also, the HS I went to is a relatively highly regarded boarding/day school (if I said the name of it, many on this form may know it), and although I was in the second quintile of my class, according to Naviance my stats were above the average for students accepted to WashU, Cornell, and considerably above average for those accepted to UCB and UCLA. So, it wasn’t exactly “surprising” to myself or the CC.
Is my current college GPA too low to try to transfer into a place like WUSTL or Vanderbilt? Combing through the threads on this site, it seems like most transfers have a 3.9/4.0 regardless of where they are coming from.