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Sociology!
President Wardens
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Hi all! Long time lurker here, and I've finally decided to tap the great collective wealth of knowledge that this forum possesses! Anyway, I'm going to try to make this short, sweet, and easy for you to understand.
+I am a sophomore in college.
+I fucked around in high school, and as a result got pretty cruddy grades. My GPA was abysmal.
+After sophomore year in IB (a high ranking magnet program), I switched to a different high school that had a very different structure...I would take college classes, and they would double for high school/college credit.
+I fuck around some more and ditch ditch ditch, barely making it in most of my classes. Senior year, however, I took a sociology course and fell in love. I got an A in it and attended every class.
+After senior year, I am pretty much rejected by all colleges I apply to except for my state university. I enter college as a sophomore (a little over thirty credits). I attended state this last semester, taking two sociology classes and scoring two A's in both of them again (I also managed to fix up my performance in my other classes, scoring an A and a
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+I'm still living at home, but my parents are becoming more and more abusive and I figure it's time to get out. I'm looking at colleges and universities outside of this shithole, which is where you guys come into play.
Any recommendations on schools with good sociology programs? Will my high school performance screw me over?
Thanks!
P.S. Location wise, I am leaning towards somewhere on the east coast...either Washington D.C. or New York.
+I am a sophomore in college.
+I fucked around in high school, and as a result got pretty cruddy grades. My GPA was abysmal.
+After sophomore year in IB (a high ranking magnet program), I switched to a different high school that had a very different structure...I would take college classes, and they would double for high school/college credit.
+I fuck around some more and ditch ditch ditch, barely making it in most of my classes. Senior year, however, I took a sociology course and fell in love. I got an A in it and attended every class.
+After senior year, I am pretty much rejected by all colleges I apply to except for my state university. I enter college as a sophomore (a little over thirty credits). I attended state this last semester, taking two sociology classes and scoring two A's in both of them again (I also managed to fix up my performance in my other classes, scoring an A and a
.+I'm still living at home, but my parents are becoming more and more abusive and I figure it's time to get out. I'm looking at colleges and universities outside of this shithole, which is where you guys come into play.
Any recommendations on schools with good sociology programs? Will my high school performance screw me over?
Thanks!
P.S. Location wise, I am leaning towards somewhere on the east coast...either Washington D.C. or New York.
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The person you should talk to about this is your college counselor. Make an appointment. They'll be able to go over your records with you about what you have and what you need in terms of a transfer. That's their job. They will probably also have some recommendations for schools to transfer to.
Even if he was good, though, I'd still want input from others about my questions.
I'm sure you can find story after story of kids heading off to school insistent that they'll do major x, y or z and that after that they're absolutely going to go in this or that field. This is really the case for a very small minority of students. While your love is, and may continue to be, Sociology, you may find that another subject hits you even harder where it matters.
You need to a get a realistic expectation of what schools you can and cannot transfer into. Generally by transferring you will be evaluated not on your high school transcript, but on your performance so far in university level classes. I certainly know many people who had GPAs in the 2.5-3.0 range who attended State schools for a year or two, and then transferred to much better schools when they got a handle on their work and started pulling 3.3-4.0 GPAs.
You certainly sound like you want Liberal Arts. Schools like GW, Georgetown, NYU, New School, etc. are probably a good starting point. Again, it really depends on your GPA and financial ability to pay. Many state schools have impressive "Honors" programs (I'm a Mass guy, and I know that UMass Honors at Amherst is probably as "valuable" as my Skidmore education).
In short, apply to the best "all-around" school. While you may be able to get a "better" education at Westfield State (again, in Mass) for education degrees, a diploma from Harvard is going to be more valuable and worthwhile after graduation.
Your approach seems to align closely with applying to graduate school, where the chops of the department is the #1 concern. For undergrad, it's the name that counts. Talk to a counselor and figure out what your range of schools looks like, and apply accordingly.