Application Impressiveness and Priorities [need your judgement!]

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>Obviously, the goal of any would-be transfer student is to have as impressive a “track record” as possible. However, as resources are limited, one thus has to establish priorities.</p>

<p>Basically, I’m stuck between two scenarios:</p>

<p>Option 1:

  1. I assume status and responsibility as president of my community college’s accounting club.
  2. My current GPA of 3.67 consequently drops to around 3.56 instead of remaining level.</p>

<p>Option 2:

  1. I do not become president of my community college’s accounting club.
  2. My current GPA of 3.67 remains level.</p>

<p>Since context is so important, I have never had any leadership positions in any school clubs, so this could obviously be a “game changer”. However, a GPA of 3.56 is quite crappy, and that could be a major drawback. </p>

<p>My top choices for transfer are:</p>

<li>Haas, UC Berkley (unlikely, I know, but I can dream)</li>
<li>Business Economics, UCLA (again, unlikely, but it’s worth a shot)</li>
<li>Business Economics, UCSB</li>
</ol>

<p>Come application period, I’ll be an honors student and thus TAP-qualified. I’ll have taken 73 units by the end of this semester.</p>

<p>So, what do YOU think I should do? Risk my GPA so I can say that I was president of accounting club, or just be a regular member of the club and maintain my already risky GPA?</p>

<p>I will REALLY appreciate feedback!</p>

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<p>I don’t understand, why will your GPA drop by joining?</p>

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<p>UCB and UCLA you need to do both if you want a chance</p>

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<p>^^ It’s a simple matter of prioritizing. I’m already heavily busy so something will have to be sacrifice.</p>

<p>^ Yeah, I know. :(</p>

<p>Anyways, I just flunked my calc midterm so maybe I should forget about higher education altogether. :(</p>

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<p>A UCLA rep. came to my community college a couple of weeks ago and said that they look at all of the high GPA’s first, after that if they have spaces open they will look at EC’s to see if that can maybe make up for a little less GPA than most. So, since that’s the case, if you don’t think you can handle both and your GPA will suffer, don’t do it.</p>

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<p>how about option 3:

  1. assume status and responsibility as president of the accounting club
  2. RAISE the damn gpa instead of keeping it level</p>

<p>for someone who is applying to bizecon at UCLA and Haas a demonstration of balance between academics and EC’s is a mandatory</p>

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<p>I’d say not to assume the presidency position and raise your GPA instead. Your 3.67 GPA isn’t competitive enough for UCLA Business Econ even with TAP. I know someone from our college that transferred to UCLA Business Econ with TAP and 3.6 GPA last year, but she had whole bunch of ECs. Personally, I think she was borderline. If you let your GPA slide down more, you’re totally ruining your chance for UCLA. The competition for UCLA this year would be far tougher than last years, as even only from our college, there are several TAP certified students with 3.8+ applying for Business Econ.</p>

<p>Furthermore, the accounting club is a new club, which means the president needs to do a lot of planning and stuffs. It’s not easy being a president of a new club, far harder than being a president of an established club. Hence, I think you should prioritize your GPA rather than EC.</p>