Help me out about colleges (transfer)

SRMom3
Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:47:21 +0000

I teach at a community college so I have experience with students planning to transfer. Generally a 3.0 gpa for 32 hours at a cc is the minimum necessary for transfer. Less than 32 credits they look at your HS credentials. My experience is that as a transfer student they don’t care about SAT. It is a measure of your potential to do college work, with actual college work they don’t need it. I would not think a B average would be anywhere near high enough to transfer to Tufts or another elite college, it would not be enough to transfer to our state flagship. Your cc advisors should be able to tell you exactly what you need for transfer to UMASS, there are often preset agreements and standards between the cc’s and their state schools as they are all officially part of the same system. For our students curriculum, gpa and sometimes an essay are all that matter, they don’t look at EC’s.

When you say you want to go into gov or a think tank that’s a pretty broad range. The government is huge from clerks to President. You would certainly be able to prepare for some sort of government employment with a degree from a state university. My impression of think tanks though is that it takes truly elite credentials to qualify for those, not just HYPSM graduate degrees but degrees with honors, designated scholars etc. I doubt you would be able qualify for those opportunities with less than a 4.0 average at a cc in its honors program.