***Transfer from Penn State to UVA***

wahoomb
Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:00:06 +0000

Dude listen, I transferred to UVA, my transfer class had a mixture of people from William & Mary, Columbia, Harvard, Georgetown, Berkeley, NVCC, VTech, etc. Penn State is a fine state school, but it’s not in the same league as the first five schools I mentioned. The general rule is that the more prestigious your school is, the lower GPA you’ll need to be admitted and the less “prestigious” your school is, the higher GPA you’ll need. The people from community colleges and other state schools need a really high GPA, during transfer orientation the dean tells you straight up “your GPA at UVA will drop by a whole point” (I laughed at this b/c my previous institution was just as prestigious as UVA and more rigorous), so if you can only pull a 3.3 at Penn State, how are you going to do academically at UVA? (that’s what the Dean Roberts is going to think when looking at your app) that’s all. Good luck trying to transfer. Sorry, I’m not one to flower the OPs.