<p>High School record: Not stellar (depression due to parental separation)
Cumulative SAT: 1850</p>
<p>Sex: Male
Ethnicity: African-American
College Stats and timeline:</p>
<p>•School: Tier 4
•1st Semester Freshman Year:
-Credit Hours: N/A
-Class levels: All Freshman
-Declared Major: Political Science
-College: Arts & Sciences
-Joined Pre-Law Society
-Elected Freshman Class President to Student Government
-Elected to Executive Council of Government and Law Society
-Wrote an article for University newspaper
-Joined Mock Trial
-Drank too much coffee mid-semester and had to withdraw. Found out afterwards that I have a cerebral caffeine allergy. Great. Lots of Ws on 1st Semester transcript (≈8?)</p>
<p>•2nd Semester Freshman Year (post-recovery):
-Credit Hours: 0
-Class levels: All Freshman
-13 Credits, 12 after withdrawing from one class
-Still Frosh. Class President
-Still Gov’t & Law Soc. Executive
-Quit Mock Trial
-Co-founded statewide student organization (legislative lobbying, etc)
-Obtained (informal, non-credit) Senate internship at State Capitol</p>
<p>•Summerterm (still Freshman):
-Credit Hours Earned: 12
-Credits: 12 (including 2 Honors classes)
-GPA: 3.48
-Class Levels: All Freshman
-Joined Obama Campaign - (Student) Town Captain
-Joined campaign of former supervising Senator</p>
<p>•1st Semester Sophomore Year (current):
-Credit Hours Earned: 24
-Credits: 15
-GPA: 3.69
-Class Levels: 2 Freshman, 2 Sophomore, 1 Junior
-Sigma Alpha Pi (∑Aπ)
-Registered voters since late August at university and in community (≤120)
-Re-elected to Gov’t and Law Society Executive Council
-Elected (incumbent) as Sophomore Class President
-Joined Campus-wide Residence Hall Council
-Joined regional Young Democrats group
-Founded College Democrats chapter at university
-Obtained internship with state Attorney General</p>
<p>Sorry to say it, but I would not count on it. Your GPA and SAT are just not up to par. Transfer admissions [to Yale] is impossibly competitive (around 3% admission rate).</p>
<p>Your grades probably aren’t high enough, especially coming from a tier 4 school. The people I knew who transferred had at least 3.9 from top 25 universities. You can see from previous transfer threads that people transfer to Yale from community colleges, so being at a tier 4 college alone isn’t a killer, but I think your GPA is. I don’t think your strong extracurriculars are enought to save you.</p>
<p>I do think you will be able to transfer into a more highly ranked college and have the apparent leadership and people skills that will take you far in life.</p>
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<li>3.69 is my current GPA. I’m applying for Fall 2009 admission.</li>
<li>I currently have 24 credits. After this semester I’ll have 39. After Winterterm (3 classes, 3 credits each) I’ll have 48. After my study abroad in Washington or the UK (12 credits in all) I’ll have 60. By then, I expect my GPA to be higher than it is now.</li>
<li>Do they really take SAT into account as much as they do for HS? Since the SAT is supposed to be a predictor of one’s ability to succeed in college—and since, it follows, a college GPA must supersede such a variable of such nature, wouldn’t SAT scores then hold less weight than a high college GPA? I understand that they’re looking out for their stats as well, but, again, do they seriously take SAT into account that much?</li>
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<p>Overachiever: like rd said, the last rate of admittance was ~3%. While you definitely have some great achievements, the sheer paucity of transfer slots and the huge # of ridiculously qualified applicants bodes poorly for your chances, if I were to speak frankly. </p>
<p>I haven’t any doubts that you’ll excel regardless of which college is lucky enough to confer a degree to you one day. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>As a Yale transfer myself, I can tell you that that’s not going to cut it. Your ECs aren’t particularly strong and your GPA needs to be around a 3.8 or 3.9. You could definitely transfer to some other excellent universities that are more transfer friendly. The fact of the matter is that Yale takes about 20 transfer students a year (with around 1000 applications)… admissions is far more competitive than it was freshman year.</p>