UCSC Wanting to Transfer USC

alamemom
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:52:01 +0000

Since you have struggled so much as UCSC, maybe it would be a better idea to return home and regroup at your local community college. I think you may be overestimating the mathmatical possibility of raising your GPA to 3.6 by next January. If you currently have about a 2.0 (you don’t mention your GPA, but with two Fs and two NC in two quarters, I am guessing ~2.0), two additional quarters (this summer and Fall 2011) with a 4.0 performance would only bring you to a 3.0. And given your struggles so far, the 4.0 goal for the next two quarters might be unreasonable.

Two years at a community college near home might give you the support you need to re-build. You will have to submit your UCSC transcripts to all future colleges, but if you have two strong years at a cc since then it will lessen the negative impact. If you do not want to attend a community college, your best course of action is to stay at UCSC - it is unlikely you will be accepted as a transfer to other four year universities with your present record.

Your focus right now should not be on transferring, it should be on improving your present situation. After you have done some rebuilding is the time to consider the next step.

Best of luck.