Business @ CC. Did I Blow My First Term?

Transfer Students
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<p>I had a rather unexpected fall term. I was waitlisted for my writing class so I ended up taking 12 credits–Japanese 201, Microeconomics (201) and Accounting 211. Are these easy classes? I don’t kow.</p>

<p>FWIW The school uses unweighted GPA.</p>

<p>Japanese was in many ways my hardest class with the most credit hours but I got an A after serious hard work. My economics final was 60% of my grade, and unfortunately I blew it unexpectedly (really bad day). I was going in looking to maintain my A (90% of the final grade was 3 out of 4 exams) and in Accounting, I was looking just to maintain a B. Vice versa happened. Unfortunately, Accounting is only 3 credits but an A is an A.</p>

<p>Turns out I got a perfect score on my term paper for accounting, and I guess a high grade on my Accounting exam, raising my final grade to A. Econ was a B.</p>

<p>GPA of 3.6. Planning on not getting any B’s next term, which would raise my GPA to 3.75 by spring break, when I’ll have my applications in to the last of my schools for next year.</p>

<p>I’m a business student but also double majoring in Forestry, which means I most of my options are competitive schools and I need to get serious financial aide (current package is pathetic).</p>

<p>Current list of prospective transfer schools:
Rutgers
Michigan State
UMich Ann Arbor
University of New Hampshire
U Dub (don’t really want to go here. Expensive AND students seem to spend eternity meeting requirements.)
University of Hawai’i Manoa</p>

<p>Manoa is my safety and I’m not worried about getting in, but with crappy grades I won’t be able to afford it. (Cost of living so high).</p>

<p>Also a Natural Resources volunteer for local park district, so I have considerable conservation and botany experience.</p>

<p>I’m guessing to not even waste my time with a school like Berkeley, but as for these other schools for forestry/business, where do I stand? I can wait another yet potentially, but I’d probably be doing more wore than school. My CC doesn’t offer forestry or even much in the way of biology classes.</p>

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That’s going to be very difficult since all of your schools are state Us. What is your state of residence? You are only likely to get good FA as an in-state student at a public. The only publics that treat OOS students like residents are UVA and UNC-CH. Unless you’re a MI resident, COA for UMichigan runs 47-49k/yr (lower and upper division, respectively for OOS students:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.finaid.umich.edu/financial_aid_basics/cost.asp[/url]”>http://www.finaid.umich.edu/financial_aid_basics/cost.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks, entomom.</p>

<p>As difficult as that’s going to be, I have little choice really. There’s only one school in my state that offers forestry as a major and I really will not be going there. The state economy sucks, always has sucked, and I’ve never been happy living here. In fact, I moved away before just to get away from it. Home state is just not an option. No jobs, no financial aid. Miserable.</p>

<p>So I’m willing to spend time (“gap year”) in a new state to set up residency. Nothing I haven’t done before.</p>

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<p>Just wanted to make sure you knew how things worked, we have many students applying to OOS publics and expecting to pay the same as in-state or planning to gain residency WHILE they’re attending.</p>

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<p>Most (if not all) states participate in tuition exchange programs with other states in their regions. You need to find out which programs are covered for the state where you live. Forestry might not be covered, but a major in a specific aspect of Forestry may be. For ideas, check out [Academic</a> Common Market/Regional Contract Program](<a href=“http://www.sreb.org/programs/acm/acmindex.aspx]Academic”>Academic Common Market - Southern Regional Education Board)</p>

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<p>actually I can do Tuition Exchange for a number of schools I looked at, anyway. My safety does an exchange.</p>

<p>At this point I’m more concerned about getting in. What are my chances? My GPA will be between 3.75 and 3.8 next term, but I’m thinking I should go ahead and apply to UH for International Business and Natural Resources schools cause their priority deadline in Jan 1. Or should I wait until March when my GPA’s higher?</p>

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<p>Your GPA should be fine for transfer admissions, so go ahead and apply now to meet the priority deadline. Then send your next set of grades as soon as you have them.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>You need to be a junior transfer to apply to Shidler; you also need to complete their pre-business core requirements the semester before you plan on applying. You can go to UH for your general ed courses then transfer into Shidler but they’ve made serious cuts in core classes because of budget constraints so I’d consider other options.</p>