What GPA is required for transferring to Wash U?

wjb
Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:58:11 +0000

Taxguy: My daughter is transferring to Wash U. as a sophomore (from Colgate). As a general premise, when a student wants to transfer as a sophomore, his or her high school record is still the most important element of the application, since at the time the transfer application is submitted, the student only has one semester’s worth of college grades. (I also think it helps to be transferring from a well-respected school; probably college grades can be somewhat lower if a student is trying to transfer from Good School A to Good School B. That said, I don’t think there’s a prayer of tranferring without a very solid first college semester.) The high school record becomes far less important when sophomores try to transfer for junior year; there’s a much more fully developed college record for transfer schools to look at.

I’m not comfortable posting my daughter’s “numbers” here, but if you’d like to PM me, I can give you some detail.