Full time job vs. EC's

jdom24
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:33:18 +0000

The only way it’s going to affect your application in a negative way is if it drops your GPA or conflicts with your school schedule so you can’t finish your pre-reqs. At the transfer level GPA and prerequisites are almost everything, I doubt they have a heavy emphasis over job vs ec as they just want to see what you are doing outside of school, and leadership skills, etc. I wouldn’t really recommend a full time job if you are going to school full time. 40 hours a week, however long it takes to get back and forth from school/work, sleep, class time, doesn’t leave you with much study time or time for anything else really. It’s one thing if you need the job for school costs/bills, but if you are just getting a job to have a job or use it for your ec’s then I might reconsider and look elsewhere.