Community College Transfer

kevingolson
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:21:03 +0000

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)

GPA: 3.92 (60 credits)

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.)

Possible Majors: History, African-American Studies

Hopeful: SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Geneseo
Reaches: NYU, Columbia

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.

So my transcript looks something like this: F’s F’s A’s W’s A’s A’s A’s

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)

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.

Will my messy transcript doom me? :waits for onslaught of cynicism: