Transferring to Ohio State w/ a lackluster GPA

TheCoffeeMan
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 17:03:48 +0000

Hello, I am a current student attending a 4-year university in the state of Florida, and I am moving to Columbus, Ohio after next Fall for family reasons. Here is my situation. Earlier this year, I graduated with my AA from a community college, and then I transferred to the University of Central Florida. However, due to some extenuating circumstances with my family, I had to pick up a lot of work to help out my family with medical bills and other things. I was dumb, and during this, I kept taking full courseloads of work and my GPA began to plummet with failing physics 1 3 separate times and failing calc 2 twice. I have documentation for everything that my family went through including a full hip replacement by my mother and a heart attack by my father law. It was a lot that happened. My last 4 semesters or so combined have had an average of maybe a 1.7 GPA, and I am completely embarrassed by that. My overall GPA is now sitting at roughly a 2.83, and after next Fall I am looking to transfer to Ohio State. I am worried that with this GPA, I will not be accepted. I do plan to continue to attend UCF for the next year to get my GPA up before we move, and I plan on taking some advanced classes including differential equations and physics 3 (I am a dual physics and chemistry major). My goal, of course, is to ace everything, and according to my calculations, as long as I do just that, I should be able to bring my GPA up to about a 3.13. I am also a very active member within my community volunteering at local soup kitchens, hospitals, and animal shelters on a weekly basis if that is of any relevance to Ohio State’s admission process. I have also aided with many hurricane relief efforts, and well, I just try to do everything I can to help. I work a job as well, and I pay for everything out of pocket. With all of this being said, do you think that I have a good chance at getting accepted as a transfer student into Ohio State University?