Will AS Degree Hurt My Chances at HMC?

EricPTK
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:18:55 +0000

I’m a junior at a charter high school (260 students). Because of its size, it doesn’t offer much in the way of electives, so most of us take community college classes beginning in our junior year. I wanted to study Russian so started at comm. college in my freshman year. I’ve now accumulated so many college units that I only need 3 more classes to have an AS degree in Math.

HMC doesn’t accept many transfer students at all, so I plan to apply as a freshman. However, I’m wondering if having as AS degree might hurt my chances. I think they’ll view my college classes as part of my high school transcript, but I’m not sure. I should probably send a note to HMC Admissions and just ask them, but I’m also a little concerned about drawing attention to myself. I mean, maybe they keep a list of kids to watch out for! ;-)

With all my college units, I have a 4.5 gpa at high school, and am ranked #1 in my class. My college gpa is 3.8 and I’m a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the community college honor society. I did get an 800 on the Math part of the SAT, 2150 overall, and will take the Math SAT II and Physics subject tests in May. I’ve got the community service hours, and got a Robotics club started at my school, and am very active in it. I think (hope) I’ve got as good a chance as most to get accepted, but wonder if any of you Mudders (or wannabes) have thoughts on how the AS might be viewed.
Thanks!