What do I need to do to be competitive?

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>I am a senior in HS and will be attending UTSA (University of TX at San Antonio) next year as as a student in the CAP program (go to UT Austin sister school for a year then auto-transfer in)</p>

<p>This is going to sound really pathetic, but the only reason I got into the CAP program is because of my some what high SAT score (2050) I graduated high school (eeeeeeek) in the third quarter with a 2.9… I can’t tell you how much I regret not caring about school (or pretty much anything) but the past is the past.</p>

<p>So focusing on the future, I am wondering what I will need to do to make myself competitive (cover up the huge blemish of a 2.9) for sophomore transfer admissions. I know I can hammer out a 4.0 at UTSA and I will need to retake the SAT for at least a 2200 (higher?), but what type of ECs should I aim for? Community sevice? Intramural sports? Lots of clubs?</p>

<p>Also, I did a fair bit of searching on Stanford transfers on this site and apparently they take in to account HS more if you are a sophomore transfer applicant rather than a junior? So would you recommend shooting to transfer in JR year?</p>

<p>Feel free to PM me instead if you don’t like to bump these kind of threads.</p>

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<p>Consider the transfer admit rate. It is minuscule. And I bet most of those are either abnormal cases (community college diamond in the rough) or star scholars at places like Harvard. </p>

<p>By all means apply, but don’t expect to get accepted. You’re best shot is to do something totally amazing and out of the ordinary by the time you apply. That and a high GPA could get you in.</p>

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<p>You will need to focus on one EC and do something unprecedented and extraordinary.</p>