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Sounds like it’s highly likely you’ll get in to UMD, good luck with both!

This is definitely worth mentioning in the Add’l Information section. Just explain it in the same kind of way you just did, briefly and in plain English.

Students tend to look like they’re begging for sympathy […]

I suggest asking your lab TA one of the following. Decide which is the best option depending on your relationship with your TA:

– if she would write a letter and if she could ask the professor to co-sign it
– […]

It seems redundant to write about being a recycling coordinator for both the Emory supplement and the Common App activities essay. It might be fine to leave your Common App activities as is–about being a news reporter.

If you have 40 credits, that’s less than 60 credits, so you haven’t exceeded the school’s maximum. However, if you’re asking about what happens if you want to apply to transfer as a junior, then you would have to […]

Just to provide a specific example, if you want to apply to the business school at American University, the minimum GPA requirement is 2.5. If you have a 3.45 GPA, you’re above the minimum, meaning that you have […]

I would urge students to do extracurricular activities that they’re genuinely interested in, rather than do activities to have items to list on a school application. It’s more interesting to see a student that is […]

You would have to ask your college about that because the policies are very specific to each institution. We wrote about an example of Academic Renewal at one particular community college: […]

It really depends on what you mean by “quality school.” What schools were you looking at?

A lot of schools post minimum GPAs to apply to transfer as well as the average GPA of accepted transfer applicants. Take […]

Hi jamesyy! Here’s a quick summary of the transfer testing requirements at the US News Top 50: http://transferweb.com/stats/transfer-testing-requirements/ Always check with each school you’re interested in though, […]

The vast majority of the “top” colleges/universities require an SAT/ACT score for transfer applicants. Check the admissions requirements for each specific school you’re interested in.

You can still apply to transfer. Choose a mix of different schools. The incoming class of transfer students each year at each school consists of a variety of students. You may just fit into the mix somehow for […]