I’m not enrolled in college yet but I have some ideas on which colleges I’d plan on transferring to if I dislike my campus or if I end up enrolling in CC. It’s still too early to start researching but I hear this suggestion pretty often and I’d like to question if that suggestion even works.
A low performing student (3.0 or less) attends Community College and opens up clubs that interest him, he competes and wins in academic competitions, maybe excels in sports/music(?) and gets internships/research and on top of that scores a 3.9 or 4.0 after two years, would he still be competitive for transferring to a selective LAC such as Wesleyan or Colgate and perhaps an ivy like Cornell? Would his HS GPA be excused after continued display of extreme academic potential? What type of colleges like that could a student apply to?
(Note: This is kind of my circumstance but I am not aiming THAT high, I’d be fine with a state school but I hear the suggestion: ‘go to cc and transfer to an ivy’ pretty often, just curious to see if it ever works out like that)
Oh, I’m a URM and have 2060 SAT score. Contemplating on retaking SAT for a 2200+ or ACT for a 33-36. SAT Subject Test will be taken this week (Rescheduled) but 800 on Chemistry, 800 on Math L2 and predicted 750+ on Biology and Physics. Doing this because I have tons of free time as a gap-year student and I love these topics
Any ideas on what I can do between now and June that can help my transfer application? AP? Clep? SAT/ACT? Subject Tests? Video Games? I don’t have any money and I’ve tried desperately to find programs in STEM but it is a variation of: 1.Costs Money 2.Competitive 3.Must be enrolled in school.
(I made this comment to ask another question but I just forgot it) X(
“Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what would have others think of us.”
