Transfer Match Me - please help me [NC resident, 3.5 college GPA in 5 semesters of college, bioinformatics]

If I were you, I would call the “transfer admissions” guidance counselors. You can email them a copy of your transcript. They sometimes offer virtual appointments.

They will tell you, at their specific university, which of your courses will transfer.

Not all of your courses will transfer. If you have too many unit courses, they might not accept you. That’s what you have to call to ask. If you’re working with their transfer guidance counselor, their notes will be included to the admissions office.

Each university is different in how they run their admissions department. I’m basing my information on a three friends who were in admissions:

One friend was at a private university on the admissions committee. (We became friends because our sons were in the same preschool group).

Friend 2, is in undergrad admissions at the local UC and is a neighbor. We’ve exchanged a lot of professional expertise in our fields of study.

Friend 3 was on Medical school admissions at the same UC. (Her daughter was in my Scout troop.)
None of them could give me direct specifics about my own children’s opportunities or chances, but they generalized the information, so I could interpret for myself how my children’s coursework and activism would perk an admissions’ committee’s curiosity.
My interpretation, of what came across from three very different admissions counselors, was the following:

It was all about grades, first and foremost, specifically performance in the classroom as reported by LOR. And rigor: I forgot to include that.
Then, it was “realistic” opportunities available and taking advantage of those. Not racking up units or ECs to fit a university. Finally, confidence coming through the “paperwork”, but not arrogance.

We can’t tell you what those committees look for, because sometimes they don’t initially know; they’re just creating a class. When they see the applications coming through they develop a theme.

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