<p>I always wanted to go to one of the top 50 schools (based on US News) and was on the right path, until about last term I began to really slack off and not care much about school. I just do not do any homework at all and almost do not study. Finally, I got 1.7 GPA for that term. Anyways, I was wondering what are some good ways to boost up my resume in order to have a real shot (or any possibility at all) to transfer to one of the top 50 schools, such as UW and I am an Accounting major. </p>
<p>Background/ Extracurricular:</p>
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<li>Win two scholarships in my current college </li>
<li>Earn the highest IQ score at my middle school class, which had about 80 students </li>
<li>one of the seven finalists for best research paper in my college</li>
<li>Parents do have College Education</li>
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<p>The last term was very bad, since I am a little bit depressed about my life. Although the surrounding circumstances are not changed, but I am getting better since I have to. Anyway, I’d like to go to UW, Cal (UC-Berkeley), UCLA, or Harvard would be best. I just really want to go to a top school with a degree. I think the doors it could open would be almost endless. What could I do to become a good candidate to transfer? Also, what other schools have great departments? Last, can you recommend some good colleges in the top 50 for me based on my unique situations?</p>
<p>Thank you for and suggestions, and Americans are friends are friends. I will check this thread twice a day.</p>
<p>1.7 OVERALL GPA? OR just a semester/quarter GPA? With that overall UC-Transferable GPA then transfer into UCLA or Berkeley is very unlikely. Even more unlikely to Harvard.
Besides, LA and Berkeley just doesn’t have an “Accounting” major.
But what is your overall UC-Transferable GPA.</p>
<p>whats your overall GPA and have you completed your major requirements and the IGETC?</p>
<p>The 1.7 isn’t important, overall GPA is.</p>
<p>Right now you’ve given us a lot of information, and I’m too lazy to sort through it for you. I’m focusing on UC right now, not sure what UW and Harvard require. For UC, figure out which of your courses are (probably) transferable. Look at the course definitions and match them up if you can. I don’t think ESOL will be transferable, but you should check that.</p>
<p>Then, figure out what your transferable GPA is. Your overall one. So add up all the grades you have (4 for A, 3 for B, etc) and divide by how many courses there are, and that’ll tell you the GPA the schools will be seeing. I believe UC only looks at transferable courses, but it looks like nontransferable ones would only help you anyways.</p>
<p>Next, figure out how many transferable credits you have. Most schools want junior transfers. Unfortunately, it also sounds like you haven’t sent in applications for next fall. That’ll be four years of CC courses, so you need to figure out what your standing is (in terms of how many transferable credits you have) and look at what each school wants.</p>
<p>For most of the schools in California, you can also use [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“Welcome to ASSIST”>http://assist.org/) to see if you’re on track, in terms of what courses you’re taking and which you need for major. (Assist won’t show schools outside of california, but if you just pick a two year school on the list it’ll show the names of the courses the UC wants.) Completing transfer requirements gets you better chances.</p>
<p>And… nope, no idea what schools have good accounting programs.</p>
<p>No accounting major for UCB or UCLA. Their closest majors are Business(UCB), Economics(UCB), or Bus Econ(UCLA). A 3.9GPA is the average gpa admitted with those majors for those two schools. </p>
<p>But you can retake your D and F for an A. That will bring your GPA back really high. You still got a good chance.</p>
<p>dont get a C in prereq then ur fine. As highly recommended.</p>