<p>Hi Tiff90–</p>
<p>Transfer admission is quite different than first-year admission. How much weight your high school record will carry depends on how many college credits you have behind you. The more college you’ve completed, the more your high school record gets put behind you. But your high school record doesn’t sound all that bad so I wouldn’t be worried abou that part. You do need to send your final high school transcript to us. Test scores are optional but yours are fine so I’d send them if it were me (they might be on your high school transcript but some schools do NOT put them there, so be sure to ask about that before you spend any money sending them from College Board). </p>
<p>As for teacher recs, if you don’t have a prof at the school you are attending now who knows you well enough to write about you, it is OK to ask a high school teacher to write on your behalf. </p>
<p>What matters the most in transfer admission is how well you’ve done in college and whether your courses are similar in content to Richmond courses (meaning liberal arts coursework rather than a totally different sort of academic program). The other factor is whether how much space we have to accommodate transfers in a given year, which can vary. I feel pretty good about what will be available for next fall, although we won’t have hard numbers on that for months. I will be curious about the need for courses taken P/F, so go ahead and plan to speak to the reason for that when you file your application. </p>
<p>I hope this helps calm your concerns. If your college GPA is a 3.6 or better, and you have appropriate courses, your chances of successful admission as a transfer are quite good. Let me know if I can be of further assistance.</p>
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<p>p.s. to Otis–thanks for the plug!</p>