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Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:30 pm
by IndieTea
Didn't do so well on my first semester at a Tier one school. There are reasons why I did worse than I should have.
If I have stellar grades in my second semester, it is possible to transfer to a lower T14?
[I don't have high hopes of this, at this point just hoping I can still get that dream BIGLAW job through OCI by pulling myself up, but thought it wouldn't hurt to ask.]
Re: Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 1:28 am
by traehekat
There is virtually no evidence that an improvement from your first semester to second semester would give you any bump in the transfer admissions process. Your cumulative GPA is the only thing that matters.
Re: Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:23 pm
by concurrent fork
traehekat wrote:Your cumulative GPA is the only thing that matters.
Re: Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:35 pm
by patrickd139
concurrent fork wrote:traehekat wrote:Your cumulative GPA is the only thing that matters.
Re: Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:45 pm
by maf70
No.
Re: Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:16 am
by Younger Abstention
The chances that you will significantly improve from first to second semester is statistically unlikely. But to improve far enough to transfer to a T14? Almost impossible if you are below the median. You might end up top third with a complete turn around. But that's still far from high enough in the class ranking.
Re: Transferring if you can show vast improvement?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:14 pm
by thexfactor
doesnt matter... I know from first hand experience. T 50 school. top 25% first semester. TOp 2% 2nd semester. Overall top 10%. Didn't get into a t14...