<p>Is the chance at the same schools with a 2040 sat after your freshman year?</p>
<p>a 28 act is way out of yale’s range</p>
<p>Ok so basically this is what it seems like needs to happen for me to get to Brown:</p>
<ol>
<li> Maintain a 3.7 gpa or higher at UCR</li>
<li> Retake the SAT’s and get at least a 2100</li>
<li> Retake the SAT II’s (i did terrible on those)</li>
<li> Take up a serious passion for something the school specializes in and write a dynamite essay</li>
</ol>
<p>Anything else?</p>
<p>Not sure if there is any point in re-taking your SAT now that you are in college. Your college performance is a much better indicator of your academic ability. And if you transfer after your sophomore year, your SAT and high school records are not that important.</p>
<p>Btw, you need a rigorous courseload to go with your GPA.</p>
<p>Arcade,</p>
<p>If you do the following 4 things, Brown will still be very difficult to get into, if not nearly impossible. You’re much more likely, if you do all those things, to get into a place like WashU or Rice.</p>
<p>“Is the chance at the same schools with a 2040 sat after your freshman year?”</p>
<p>When you apply to transfer after freshman year, your SAT scores and HS record will be very important (see my post #12). A 2040 is still very low for these schools, so your chances would be slim.</p>
<p>“a 28 act is way out of yale’s range”</p>
<p>The poster was referring to the average ACT for the school that the girl attended before transferring to Yale, not HER score.</p>
<p>“a 28 act is way out of yale’s range”</p>
<p>entomom is right. I don’t know her score. My point is that it’s very possible to get into a very good school from an average school. At least that’s the case before 2005.</p>
<p>Is it suggested to retake the sat if you plane to transfer</p>
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<p>Dude, it’s not gonna happen. I’m sorry. Kids with 2400’s and 4.0’s get rejected from these schools, and your scores don’t even place you in the 25th percentile at Cornell (the easiest Ivy to get into).</p>
<p>I know someone who transferred from UCR to UCLA and is now graduating this year and very happy with himself. Go for UCLA, UCB, or UCSD, as they are all realistic options if you accomplish those 4 things that you listed up there. Also, these three schools are all amazing institutions and will provide you with exceptional opportunities.</p>
<p>It takes four years of sacrifice, sweat, blood, tears, and a hell of a lot of luck for undergrads to get into any of those schools. You simply would not be in the running.</p>
<p>Ok, I’m kinda sick of people saying that you can’t get into an Ivy w/o a 2000+ SAT unless you have a major hook. Oh and the bottom 25% is for people w/ major hooks??? riiiiight. Guys, I had a sub 1900 SAT and got in w/o a major hook. Obv. they saw something but it had nothing to do w/ curing aids in Africa, being poor, being a 100% Native American, publishing a paper, or even being a 1st generation college student.</p>
<p>What was it then?</p>