Hi all! I’m a transfer student from the northwestern US, and I think I need some help finding target/match and safety colleges. This might be a reeeally long post so please bear with me! 
Important stuff:
I did not graduate high school with a diploma. I got my GED, and though I got very good scores, my high school transcripts are very bad - rigorous coursework, grades B- or below with exceptions in the foreign language and arts classes, where I had A+s. I’m pretty sure my comprehensive GPA when I left was under a 2.5. I have a viable explanation for this if I need to write an essay on it, but I’d prefer to be able to submit my GED and not worry about my high school transcripts, as I went to four different high schools and it’s a hassle to get things from all of them. I also don’t want to have to have a recommendation from a high school counselor.
However! I currently have a 4.0 GPA from when I attended college in 2013, with six transferable credits so far from being a part-time, working student… This fall, I’m going back to school at a different college (it’s a community college in my home state). I’m going to work hard and I hope to keep my GPA at or above 3.5 at the minimum; I also plan on involving myself in extracurricular and co-curricular programs at the school. I really want to get into Phi Theta Kappa to increase my scholarships opportunities.
My coursework this fall will be in foreign language (I’m taking two, French and Japanese), prerequisite math (0 level), Comm, and dance. In the spring, I plan on getting a transferable math credit by taking Statistics, as well as the continuation of the foreign languages, a gen ed history class, and maybe a science, as well as dance. I’ll be studying voice (singing) as well. I already have credit for both gen ed English 101 and 102 from my previous college, where I tested out of English 101 and earned an A+ in 102.
I need schools that accept applications from lower division transfer students!!! This is a must, because I plan on applying this fall/spring for fall 2016 admittance - I want to have coursework or earn minors in French and Japanese, and there is a high possibility that those programs at my community college are going to be cut, and I’ll have to transfer. Minus the dance classes and 0 level math, I should have 32 semester credits of college level coursework by summer 2016. The schools need to have lots of coursework opportunities in Japanese and French. I’m interested in majoring in Dance, Theatre, Communication, double majoring in my language study, or History. I’m very uncertain so I’d like the school to have lots of options. Financial ability is also a factor - my FAFSA EFC and my parents’ ability to pay is about the same for now (15k a year) but I have a younger brother heading to college in two years and I think it will go down. WUE schools are a major plus, and/or schools that have a reputation for offering scholarships to transfer students. It’d also be nice if they have services for students with learning disabilities but I’m not going to rule out schools that don’t right now.
I only have one school on my list right now, and it’s U Hawaii Manoa (which I visited and LOVED, but I really want other schools to look into!)
This is getting really long so I just want to add that I’m hoping to cast a wide net right now and narrow things down later, when I have the help of my advisors at school. But right now, I have literally no idea where to look, since my requirements are so specific.
Thank you if you read all this and thank you more if you can help me out; I’ll be checking back!