Transfer advice!

maybegator
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 13:17:07 +0000

Question: Is it better to submit an earlier application when you don’t have all of your grades completed, or to wait until closer to the app deadline when you will have more/better information to submit?

More info:
I’m looking to transfer into COE for spring 2012. I was a little late in realizing that edu was the major that I wanted so I’m taking all 3 pre-reqs this summer. One ends July 3rd, the other July 31st, the last August 26th. I’m doing very well in all of the classes and know I can get A’s in all three. My current GPA is a 3.62 (not that great) but will be a 3.7 after these three classes if I make all A’s. I’m finishing my Associate’s at Santa Fe in the fall. Also, they require a teaching exam (GKE) to be taken for admission. I’m not taking that until July 9th, so the scores will most likely be back early August. An advisor I spoke with told me to just send my application in after I’d registered for the summer & fall classes–the earlier the better. But if I send it it now, I won’t have any grades in my pre-reqs and I won’t have my scores to send in. If I wait until the end of August, I can send in everything at the same time, BUT then I’m competing with a million freshman. Help???