I asked this in another forum but I figured I should ask in a more local forum as well.
I’m a first year college student at ACC. Last semester, I made a 3.4 GPA with 15 credits completed. I know it’s not the best GPA, but because I pushed myself too hard in the beginning of the semester (I would study + do homework for at least 2 hours everyday) I became too tired towards the end, which is when my effort and grades started slipping. Anyways, the obvious solution to increase my chances of successfully transferring would be to improve my grades, but what else could I do? I’ve been looking at the possibility of getting an internship (I was looking at Boeing, for example) until I read that I would have to be enrolled in a four-year degree.
My dream is to go to a university somewhere in California. I’ve read that its way difficult to transfer into their state schools such as UC especially from OOS, so I figured I should try and apply to private schools like USC. My intended major is computer science, which makes getting accepted even more difficult.
And of course, the universities I’m definitely going to apply to are:
-UT Austin
-Texas A&M
-Texas State
-SMU (maybe)
-…and possibly UT Dallas.
Oh yeah, and I found this online: https://admissions.utexas.edu/apply/automatic-transfer
This involves info about automatic transfer to UT Austin, but I’m a little unsure about the qualifications, especially this one: “Qualify based on Texas law for automatic freshman admission to a Texas university”. For UT, automatic admission cuts off at 7% I believe, but this statement says to “a” Texas university, which in Texas is generally 10%. A&M has this too. I ranked in the top 10% of my graduating class, so I know I would qualify for A&M’s, but I’m not so sure for UT. If anyone can give me a little insight about this, that would be a big bonus.