3.6 GPA college transfer??

Well, I'll make this brief. I'm getting a 3.6 GPA currently with 30 credits at a good university. I've done several environmental leadership positions, have volunteered over 500 hours worth in the past 5 years, have lived in Canada, Nepal, and China, do univ. fencing as a sport, and will be a congressman's intern this Summer. However, my grades in high school and my SAT scores kind of sucked, but since both were done 5 years ago, they shouldn't count as much. I'm hoping to try for a few schools that offer majors I'd like, Georgetown, Lehigh, Cornell, Vassar, and Middlebury. I have specific reasons for going to transferring to each, so that's no problem.

For those with knowledge of such schools and have constructive comments, please give me your opinions on my chances of getting in, or what more I could do to get in. Thank you!

Your leadership involvement will do you a great deal of help. Do focus on that and include it where you can on applications. Your GPA is quite good/high. As far as GPA in another light goes: are your best grades in sciences or humanities? If you chose to major in a science and your university sciences didn't serve your GPA well, then the upcoming university may decide from that. If most of your good grades come from harder/more challenging classes, then I'd say you have it made. However, regardless, I think you are a good candidate mainly due to leadership and a helpful GPA. Admissions offices are quite lazy and I doubt would critique into what classes your GPA is allocated. They would care more about its actual number and what you are offering to their university in leadership. If you are already attending a university and have credits, your SAT and highschool stuff is virtually null. Universities only care about that stuff for incoming freshmen with no university credits (those "old" grades should never haunt you or follow you around in life ever again. You can say goodbye to them for good). Your chances are quite high. Congratulations and good luck.

Well most of the time 3.5 and higher and your on the Deans List. I think you will have a good chance. Most people slack off in highschool. But you have shown that you can make it in college live and get great grades.

That is possible! Many people would envy your background. You have many activities; colleges like that. Not everything depends on your SAT scores. Good luck into getting a college you want. :)

You've done well and your high school grades will mean little or nothing at this point (probably nothing). However, several of the schools you listed take very few transfer students and get many applications for a limited number of places. Lehigh and Vassar are probably a bit less competitive than the others, and my guess...it's nothing more...is that Lehigh is the school at which your chances are best.

The admissions offices at the aforementioned college can give you profile information on the transfer students admitted in recent years...it may even appear on their websites.

I would not discourage you from applying to any of the colleges on your list, but I do suggest that you add a few "safety schools" if you are determined to leave the university at which you are now enrolled.

On http://www.college-scholarships.com you can find college contact information, listed by state.

In terms of academics, you're not going to be held back. If past academic performance (over 5+ years ago) was a heavy indicator of what would get you into college, I'd be s.o.l. This only holds true if you've shown that you've grown both personally and academically though, which you obviously have.

Dan R has good advice in terms of the specific colleges you listed. Not getting accepted there won't be a function of how your application looks so much, they just don't accept many transfer students. I'd advice picking a few schools you're fairly certain to get into as well.

Good luck!