Community College Transfer

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>School: Westchester Community College (reputed to be one of the best CCs in the country, although with the amount of money floating around in the WC, that goes without saying) </p>

<p>GPA: 3.92 (60 credits) </p>

<p>Stuff:

  • Nancy Jo Abeles honors scholarship winner in the amount of $3000
  • Accepted submission to Verdandi literary magazine
  • Staff position on “The Viking News” college newspaper.
  • Phi Theta Kappa member (NHS for community colleges)
  • Graduate of the Honors Program (3 more Honors courses taken than what was necessary to earn that distinction)
  • Contribution to ETC online magazine
  • Care package organizer for Virginia Tech following school shooting
  • Philosophia Society member
  • Volunteer work at local Unitarian Universalist congregation.
  • 100,000+ word contribution to a major encyclopedia entitled, “Day-by-Day: The 1930s.” (Took me nearly a year working full-time to complete.)</p>

<p>Possible Majors: History, African-American Studies </p>

<p>Hopeful: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Geneseo
Reaches: NYU, Columbia </p>

<p>Note: My actual transcript is a bit of a mess. Despite the high GPA, there are three ugly blemishes: Two semesters directly out of high school where I never attended and earned F’s. Also, a semester in the middle with all W’s where I decided to take a semester off even though I had A’s in all my classes at the time of my withdrawal.</p>

<p>So my transcript looks something like this: F’s F’s A’s W’s A’s A’s A’s </p>

<p>HOWEVER, the F’s were replaced by taking the Honors version of the course I previously failed. According to the honors director, I am the only person in the history of the program to do this. Also, after the semester of W’s, I took a much more strenuous courseload (3 Honors courses out of 5, instead of 1 in the previous semester, so there isn’t much question as to whether I withdrew because of the heavy courseload) </p>

<p>My CC is known for sending students to NYU/Columbia on a regular basis, meaning that in any year, AT LEAST one person is accepted to those schools. </p>

<p>Will my messy transcript doom me? :waits for onslaught of cynicism:</p>

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<p>I think you’d have to have an amazing transcript to transfer to Columbia from even a 4 year state school, let alone a community college. Provided that the Fs have been stricken from your record, I suppose you have decent chances at all.</p>

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<p>“I think you’d have to have an amazing transcript to transfer to Columbia from even a 4 year state school, let alone a community college.”</p>

<p>Yep.</p>

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