Transferring To a University after one year of community college?
To underscore an earlier post I made of how hard transferring into top universities is, here is a list of transfer acceptance rates for 2012. As you can see, every top 12 school accepts less than 10% of transfer applicants. Most of these numbers have dropped since 2010, and I am 99.9% confident they are going to decrease even further in 2013. In other words, second chances at prestige are going to disappear in the near future. Unless you are already at a top 25 school, you can almost always write off any chances at top 12 colleges, even with perfect grades, stellar recommendations, and amazing extracurriculars. There is good news. For students who failed to get into a top 25 school as a freshman, there are opportunities at redemption for transfers with high college grades. I'm talking about schools like Rice, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, and Emory. You will notice most of these schools lie outside of the top 15, and their backdoors are shutting fast. I predict the "boundary" for transfer students will be pushed outside of the top 20 within the next 2 or 3 years, so you better apply for transfer while you still have a decent chance. Below is a condensed list of the transfer acceptance rates, followed by a more detailed list with freshman acceptance rates, differential between freshman and transfer, and last year's transfer rate. Harvard University: 1% Princeton University: 0% (No transfers) Yale University: 2% Columbia University: 5% California Institute of Technology: 6% Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 9% Stanford University: 4% University of Chicago: 4% University of Pennsylvania: 9% Duke University: 2% Dartmouth College: 3% Northwestern University: 8% Johns Hopkins University: 11% Washington University in St. Louis: 7% Brown University: 11% Cornell University: 21% (Skewed due to guaranteed transfers) Rice University: 20% Vanderbilt University: 31% University of Notre Dame: 40% Emory University: 28% University of California - Berkeley: 22% Georgetown University: 11% Carnegie Mellon University: 12% University of Southern California: 25% University of California - Los Angeles: 26% University of Virginia: 35% Wake Forest University: 26% ~David
Trying to transfer to university with a low gpa. Help?
I was always a good student in HighSchool. Passed Highschool with a 3.42gpa. However, when I got to collage I didn't do so hot. I'm in my 3rd semester of college and I did really bad my last semester. I failed two classes and now have a cumulitive gpa of 1.58 :( . Im taking two classes this semester and expect an A from both of them. ( I love art and speech lol ) However, I never told my ( over reactive ) parents that I failed and I'm currently on academic probation. They're pushing me really hard about applying to transfer to a university. I will be retaking my two failed classes next semester, but regardless I will be applying with a ( maybe ) slightly higher gpa. Would there even be a point in applying to any university with a gpa like mine? or will I have to find a way to lengthen my stay at community college? I'm planning on Majoring in Industrial Design. The only place to do that in Texes is the University of Houston. Is there hope of me getting in? Like a portfolio or an essay or something? Just wondering if anybody else has been in a position like this? and if so What did you do? ... or if you just have some dam great advice... Anything would be helpful at this point!!
Am I eligible for EI if I quit my job to move to another province?
That is something very hard to answer without knowing the entire situation. On the surface, quitting a job for family reasons "can" be what EI calls "just cause". They will ask you many things, like what steps you have done to find a job in BC before you quit your other one The link I gave is from Service Canada. There are 40 most common "just causes" for quitting your job, and this is what they say for your situation: Reason No. 37: Work Away from Family–After a Reasonable Period of Absence Raison d'être: recognizes the right of a couple or family to live under the same roof; encourage working in far away or isolated locations without being denied benefits; Reference: EIA 29(c)(ii); Reasonable Alternative: seek closer new employment before quitting; Just Cause: had accepted to work far away where there was no possibility to move the claimant's family and a reasonable period has already lapsed; had accepted to work far away in the hope to move the claimant's family later, which after some time has proven to be impractical; distance is too great for daily or periodic travel; after a period of time employment did not materialize, or it was not possible to search for employment because of the distance. Your best bet is to apply for EI and see what they say. Remember, if they decide inititally to not grant you EI, you CAN appeal it and search the jurisprudence library to see other cases like your's.
Which US colleges and universities accept IB credits?
Here's a list:http://www.ibo.org/globalassets/...But I’m going to be honest with you. Take the AP test equivalent of the IB subjects. You're going to get more college credits (usually). When I was deciding whether or not to go to high school for another year, I realized that I could graduate a year early from high school, and I had 30 college credits going in (all without being a IB graduate).The great schools (like Harvard) won't accept your high IB scores and convert them to college credit. So just keep that in mine too.
Can i get into san francisco state university?
You probably can be admitted, but it is a horrible university. It is so overcrowded that it often takes at least five years to get the needed classes to graduate and the left-wing instructors and students make free discussion in history classes nearly impossible. Instead, go to my alma mater, Sonoma State.
Is it harder to get into Boston University than it is to get into Northeastern?
Selective means that a school is more difficult for admission than one that is competitive. However, in close cases the use of one term or the other is a subjective value judgment. The percentages are confusing as the number of people who apply is not given. If proportionately more people apply to NU than NU accepts, than apply to BU etc., the NU acceptance rate will be lower. The collegeboard website lists under admission how importantly each school rates factors such as GPA, SAT, etc., but these are generalities and private universities do not need to apply them equally to all applicants. BU may also admit a higher percentage of applicants because it may have found that more of its admitted applicants decline the offers than NU has found decline its offers, for example. These are just some of the possibilities in the very subjective and unscientific topic of admissions to private universities. A "super genius" who has some extracurricular interests will probably be admitted. A well rounded applicant will have to compete with the other well rounded applicants. Everyone who is not in a special category at most private universities has to compete with legacies, "underrepresented minorities", athletes, international students, etc. Sometimes these special categories can account for over two-thirds or even three-quarters of the admitted students. I do not have information on the PT/AT program at BU or elsewhere. Although colleges and universities use the unweighted GPA for GPA consideration, most of the competitive and selective ones also use the rigor of the academic record, which they determine by looking a what honors, AP and IB classes were taken and what grades were earned in them. BU and NU are so close to each other in the US News rankings that each ranks more highly in various categories. There is no significant difference between the schools for undergraduate programs overall.
Is Economics hard at uni level?
Not too hard if your really into it. I hold an undergrad in economics and currently going through a MSc in Finance Development. Two major thing to look forward when rolling in at econs: 1.) math 2.) logic 1.) Maths are basic skill to do the work on several courses. Depending on your school, you could get: a) one or two algebra courses (a+b=c; a-b(c)=d... and so on...) b) one or two calculus (if you did well in the first two, there no need to fear) c) one or two statistics d) one or two advanced courses (econometrics, numerical methods, others) -- most likely you will not study this on undergrad, so no need to worry here, unless your applying at Cambridge, Oxford, MIT... -- 2.) Logic. Essential skill to Talk, Read, Write and Understand Economics. The rest of the courses will be piece of cake: research, debate on policy, theory, history, business and finance, etc etc etc