Chance Me with low GPA and 11 Ws +5Fs (CC transfer student) [VA resident, 3.1 college GPA, CS major]

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Your original post was a month ago. Why not add an update to that thread instead of starting a new one?

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Luck. There is no way to predict if you will get accepted to an Ivy League school as a transfer student with a substandard GPA in college and a lot of W and failed courses.

These schools have extremely low acceptance rates for transfer students. Extremely low.

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Sorry, I’m not really familiar
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Should I delete this post and edit the older post?

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I will go ahead and combine the two.

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Tanku fren!!

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You were in school fulltime, working in the medical field full time, made hundreds of products that take a full day to make and making daily multiple batches of flan while caring for your mother? Not sure there are that many hours in the day. Also don’t believe you can “have” agent orange. Offspring can have birth defects, developmental issues, etc, but they don’t “have” agent orange. Just the effects of it, sadly.

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Again asking
what does this mean? Does this mean your family can pay your full cost to attend college? Or are you expecting a full free ride to college?

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I’ve been at my community college for six years, with some breaks here and there. I should have taken gap years, but I kept enrolling in classes and either dropped them or forgot to do so, resulting in Fs. I was heavily invested and focused on some of my extracurricular activities.

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I do have some savings from some of the extracurriculars, and I’m very confident in my ability to find scholarships. Plus, last I heard, Ivy League schools will provide financial assistance if you are in need.

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Only if you get accepted.

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This will unfortunately all show on your transcripts.

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I can do a few more ECs and I’m thinking of joining space force.

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What will it take for me to change the table around?

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Please
stop adding things to your already very crowded schedule. You have the idea that more is better and that is not the case.

I hope you are being treated well for your ADHD, because that sounds like it’s needed from what you post here
in my unprofessional opinion. You are jumping from thing to thing and that won’t help you in the long term.

My suggestion
apply wherever you feel like it, but learn to love a four year college where you are guaranteed to be accepted. Get your bachelors degree if that is what you want, and then a job, and move on from there.

That is the signal.

The rest of this is the noise.

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First, it might be helpful to narrow your focus. What do you plan to study? Maybe its your ADHD but you are sorta all over the place. Space force, engineering, medicine, banking. Seriously, if this is for real, the likelihood of an Ivy or other top school taking an older transfer student with probable financial need and a checkerboard transcript and academic history is virtually nil.

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I am concerned that you’re putting all your eggs into transferring to an Ivy school.

The problem with transfers at an ivy is that you have to hope someone else drops out to make room for you, in your specific major, and that rarely happens.

Those schools are small, with the exception of Berkeley. Plus, with your record of your 11 withdrawals, those elite schools want the elite and will tend to want to admit the those students with strong academic records. They will be concerned that you won’t be able to finish their programs.

With residency requirements in California, it’s not as easy as you think. If you arrive to California, and immediately enroll in a CCC, you will be considered as OOS having arrived in California for educational purposes, and nonresident student at the CCC and any university in California.

Also, because of the nature of employment in California, you won’t be able to easily find a job in tech, because everyone has degrees. If you are look for those jobs, and you’re not degreed, you won’t be able to easily make the salary to pay our enormous rents. Especially in the bay area, which is outrageous if you can find a place to live.

Plus the UCs are impacted for CS and engineering. That means too many students and not enough spaces. I don’t even know if Merced would work out for you because you are on a prestige hunt and I don’t think you would consider Merced an ivy.

I’m going to be direct with you. Stop chasing prestige at this point it won’t get you the security you think you will get with a piece of paper.

My husband is a Stanford grad and as a manager, hires engineers and CS people for his company. He thoroughly reviews the transcripts of each applicant. He doesn’t care where they went to school as long as they have the correct coursework and can pass the interview technical. A 3.5 GPA is expected by graduation, and with 11 withdrawals, he wouldn’t consider you for employment because you’re vulnerable and won’t be able to get a security clearance.

Please choose the easiest route graduate from any University just to get your degree. People won’t care that you went to an ivy. My husband hires the best candidate for the job on the most recent candidates. His hired have been from in-state public universities.

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I want to have the best education possible that humanity can offer. I want my four years of undergrad to provide me with the strongest foundation without any gaps. I know it sounds ambitious, but I aspire to reach the pinnacle of academic achievement. I thoroughly enjoy creating things and conducting research. My goal is to study under the greatest minds on Earth and hope to gain some of their insights. It’s akin to nurturing a bonsai tree. You need to care for and shape it when it’s young.

Interestingly, I’ve already received a job offer and have had about 6-7 internship interviews the past couple of months despite being in a community college and in a tech industry affected by layoffs. Job prospects and my career are currently of minimal concern to me. I believe that upon completing my bachelor’s degree, I will be able to secure a job given enough time, and I might even pursue a master’s or a Ph.D.

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Since you are having success where you are in terms of jobs, why not go to the college local to there and just get that bachelors degree. Hopefully by doing that, you won’t be spending FOUR more years on undergrad school
nor should you.

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Thank you so much for helping me! I can’t say much, but the internship is guaranteed for me, and I won’t enroll in a CCC right away. I’ve researched this extensively. Additionally, I have a final-round interview today with a Fortune 200 company for a position at their California headquarters. I believe this is the best interview I’ve had, and I expect to receive an offer from them. Everything would align perfectly for me if I were to move there.

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So if you get this job in California, does that mean you will abandon the VA schools in terms of applications? And will you move IF you get accepted outside of CA?

Or are you counting on getting accepted to Cal.

@Gumbymom isnt there a maximum number of credits for transfers there?