<p>Thank you guys for the productive advices, much appreciated. @Cmscribe, for your first comment, you were talking about taking a year off, then reapply as 2013 fall semester freshman. I was thinking about that today, and thought it has some potentials. Since now I don’t have that many options, and with my grades, I could enter much better schools next year. Furthermore, I am a male, and in Korea, males have to attend one of the military branches for at least a year before a certain age. So after the summer, if I decide to join the army, since it’s a MUST, then next year after my army duty is done, you think I can reapply as a freshman to those universities+ my safety schools in 2013? </p>
<p>My original plan was to enter a university here, then after a year or two, take a year off, then join the army in Korea and return back to the university. So what do you think about my “join army then return and reapply plan”?</p>
<p>@camdisco24, your advices are very very appreciated, although I have some questions. I am assuming that you were or a HPU student. I went on to UNC transfer website, and HPU, Hope College(my other option of “go-between” private school) along with other colleges/universities were on <a href=“https://www.unc.edu/sis/adm/xfereq.html[/url]”>An opportunity to make a difference - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When I clicked on HPU, most of the classes were transferable and labeled clearly as external courses to internal courses, which indicate that there have been students who transferred from HPU to UNC before. Moreover, I just checked those three UNC branch schools, and they are all available; however, I thought it was better to excel in a school with all As, if not most, when transferring? So if HPU’s academic system isn’t particularly challenging, wouldn’t that help me for my transcript when I transfer? Same applies for Hope College, although Hope College has a more respected academic reputation. Or do you still think it’s better to attend one of those three UNC branch schools then transfer, since they are all part of UNC system. Finally, please read the question that I asked earlier @cmscribe about my “army plan”, whether it might work out or not.</p>
<p>Thank you guys so much. I can’t depict enough appreciation with my words. Please help me and answer my concerns ASAP, and thank you guys once again :)</p>