What is an RO?
Chance Me with low GPA and 11 Ws +5Fs (CC transfer student) [VA resident, 3.1 college GPA, CS major]
My bad RO is return offer.
My life purpose is to sacrifice oneself for the greater good of humanity. I feel like I will have more potential to do great things at a Tier 1 university. I imagine some professors exchanging insights at a lunch table, and I happen to be there. I might hear some insights that, unless I spend my whole life researching that topics, I wouldnât know. Without a lot of insights like that, my growth will be limited. Then, I wonât be able to do something great that can help billions of people. My life purpose will be shattered.
Since this thread is starting to go in circles, Iâm setting a timer for it to close tomorrow morning.
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Faculty do not usually eat at the same dining halls that students do.
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I donât know what to say to your postâŠexcept good luck. Apply to your desired schools and see what happens.
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You watch too much TV. This simply does not happen in real life.
And there are brilliant professors at all kinds of colleges and universities. The T20 donât have a monopoly on brilliance.
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Since it sounds like you have good insurance, you may be able to self-refer. Do some google searching for a psychologist who specializes in ADHD and call them and ask if they take your insurance. If they do, make your own appointment.
If that doesnât work, call your insurance companyâs customer service number and ask for and ADHD therapist who is in-network for you. You can also ask them for an in-network psychiatrist.
And executive function coaches (a third professional) are often not covered by insurance at all, so just Google for one that sounds good for you and try them out. Some specialize in helping college students, which might be a good place to start.
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And many that lack common sense 
IMO, no. Maybe instead, hope for a fulltime job offer at NASA if they will pay to put you through school to finish your degree (looks like they expect employees to have undergrad degrees). It might have to be on line. But you have demonstrated that you are far more successful at working than at academics.
âMy life purpose is to sacrifice oneself for the greater good of humanity. I feel like I will have more potential to do great things at a Tier 1 universityâ This remains a vague, pie-in-the sky ill-defined dream. Sounds a tad like a romance novel. IMO, if you want to help billions, pursue a career that will work to address climate change. Or medical research. Please get some help with structure, organization skills and your anxiety. Good luck.
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You actually may find that you can dine/chat/play cards with with faculty at the smaller LACs. Plenty of brain power there. The bigger Uâs probably less likely.
For the purpose of UC limits on credits to apply and get transfer credit, lower division (frosh / soph level) non-UC credit is limited to 70 semester credits (but all courses count for subject credit).
Upper division and UC credit then get added to the lower division credit limited to 70.
I went to an Ivy. I have a Ph.D. I am a professor. I can tell you that (a) this is not a thing that happens, and (b) more importantly, you can find brilliant, dedicated faculty members who are innovative researchers and gifted teachers at any college or university in the country.
In fact, youâll probably have more luck getting to know your professors at schools more focused on undergraduate education (including some, but not all, Ivies, and some, but not most, T20s), so you wonât have to share your professors with their graduate students. But more to the point, while there are certainly some advantages to attending top universities, these advantages are not exclusive to top universities. Youâre not going to gain humanity-saving insight, as if by osmosis, if you attend one of these universities. No matter where you go, youâll have to work for it, and you have to have concrete academic goals (which âsacrific[ing] oneself for the good of humanityâ is not).
But â sharing epiphanies with professors around the lunch table? No. Your professors are eating lunch at their desks in between classes and meetings.
And finally: stop adding ECs. If your GPAâs not in the range, the ECs wonât matter at highly selective schools. And Iâm not sure how much ECs matter for transfer students, anyway. At this point, you need to have a proven college-level academic record.
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That^ makes T20 universities unreachable. Sure, apply to a couple, but for CS, one of the most competitive majors, even VT and UVA are reaches - theyâre only possible because of your amazing ECs.
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