I am a first year college student at a local community college I had a HS GPA of 2.9. If I get a 4.0 my first year of Community College and am a president of a club in the business honors society and am apart of the student government where should I be looking to apply as a transfer for next year?
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I would suggest that you discuss this with the transfer advisor at your community college. You want to apply to colleges that have an articulation agreement with your CC…which will make acceptance and transfer course credit more likely.
We can’t give you much advice. We don’t know your college budget, what your state of residency is, what major(s) you are interested in pursuing, the locations, and sizes of colleges you might like, religious vs secular…etc.
Sorry, but your very brief post gives us nothing to go on.
I agree with the comment about changing your screen name.
Also, the quality of advice that you get here on this web site (or any site) is going to be dependent upon how much information you give us. Things like your budget and your home state and your major would for example be very useful information.
Generally speaking your community college should have transfer advisors who will be able to evaluate your high school record and your college record. They will need more information than you gave us, but things that you will likely know and be able to tell them.
Generally if you transfer from community college to a 4 year university after one year, your high school record will still matter. If you do two years in community college and then transfer, university admissions will be able to consider a lot more of your results in college, and your high school record will matter quite a bit less. Remember that university admissions will be looking at your application during your potentially last semester of community college, and this last semester will not have ended yet when they make their decision. This means that if you want to transfer after one year then they only have one semester of community colleges classes to consider. However if you apply to complete the transfer after two years then they will have three semesters of community college classes to consider.
That being said, if you can do very well in community college, then you will be helping yourself A LOT and you will be able to transfer to a very good university. There are lots of questions regarding when you transfer and which school you transfer to. However, you can be very, very confident that if you can do well from day 1 in your community college, then you will get very good opportunities going forward.
Which means that job 1 is to do very well in your current classes.
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Agree with previous suggestions to consult with your CC advisors. They know where their students have transferred well.
Now here’s the issue, if you’ve only had a year of community college, the universities are going to look at your high school record because they need to rely on your previous school history, as well as your current class schedule.
If you transfer with two years of community college, they don’t consider that high school record.
You need to figure out what your budget is. If you plan on transferring to a public university, within your state, you need to meet their guidelines. I am in California. Students who plan to transfer to the UC’s or CSU’s need 60 semester units to transfer. You also need to know how much they’re going to charge you for tuition and fees. Transfers tend not to get a lot of funding.
If you’re going to transfer to a private university, you need to know if they accept one-year transfers. You also have to know what they are going to cost.
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Just a heads up on the word “apart”; it means to separate or divide.
“I took apart the Legos.” vs.
“I am a part of the Student Senate.”
Sorry to be nitpicky, but I graded a lot of vocab sheets, and reviewed a lot of scholarship applications.
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More detail is needed as above but… I was once you. Went to one year of Community college then off to a local 4 year commuter school that had a good reputation. Then off to med school.
Community College classes were taught mostly for pre med by lots of the same professors at the local 4 year or so it seemed but also got me on track to get more out of school.
So, as suggested doing 2 years they don’t look back at high school but that really depends on which school is next. In my case it didn’t really matter. I actually consulted with the college first. It also wasn’t hard to get into. But if I wanted to try for a better known 4 year then I might if stayed another year.
So to answer your question we need to know your next steps.
Many colleges will look at your HS record if you apply to transfer after one year. You may wnt to consider staying at CC for two years.
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