I’m currently a freshman at a community college and have 4.0 with two courses completed, and working on completing 3 more for 16 credits total. I’m applying to transfer to UMass Boston, Boston University, Northeastern, and Suffolk University. However, I’m afraid that my past mistakes will affect my admissions process. When I got out of high school I enrolled at a different community college, but failed everything due to mental health issues and constant relocation. My high school gpa was also pretty low (2.5). I’m wondering if anyone thinks that my past will stop me from being able to transfer to any university. Also looking for advice on how to prove myself and show that I have matured and am willing to fight for my goals.
Go meet with the Transfer Advisor at your CC. Bring your records from your first CC. Start the planning process for your eventual transfer. The Transfer Advisor’s whole job is to help students find good places to finish up their educations. That person will have good ideas for you.
Congratulations! well done to you for picking yourself up and going on. You are off to a great start.
Those are some seriously competitive colleges. You need to show that you can handle a full college load over a period of time. So keep going with the 3 you are taking now. Work up to doing a full course load of solid academic classes at the same time. Depending on your financial circumstances, you may want to finish your AA and then transfer to a 4 year to finish- look at MassTransfer, as you are probably eligible.
UMass Boston and Suffolk are not seriously competitive colleges. I think you have a decent shot at getting in to those two. Agree that you should ask your advisor for assistance in this process and that it might be best to get some additional time at CC under your belt before transferring.
@TransferBoiii The way that you show that you have matured and go beyond your poor grades from the past is to put together a semester with high grades (straight A’s is very good), and then repeat this. Nearly all students get at least a few B’s from time to time also – the vast majority of us are not good at everything.
There is one thing that I do not understand from your post. It sounds like you just took two classes in the fall semester. Is this correct? Are you also working?
If you have an A in two classes, then you have a ways to go before you have enough credits with good grades to help you transfer. I think that this might just take some time. However, taking classes at community college and getting A’s is getting you in the right direction.
@DadTwoGirls Yes, I am working a full time job and a part time job. I actually took two classes in the fall, but I was in danger of failing my calc class so I dropped it. I ended up taking one winter session class and am taking three classes for the spring semester. If I end up waiting to submit transfer applications, I intend to take a class over the summer and take 4/5 classes in the fall. My plan has been to quit my full time job and switch to waitressing full time as the schedule will be easier to maneuver than a 9 to 5.
I’m looking to apply to Northeastern, BU, and BC. I have a 3.6 in college now and had a 3.8 in high school. I got a 31 on the ACT. Is it likely that I will get into one of these 3 universities?
“Is it likely that I will get into one of these 3 universities?”
@student937 I think that you need your own thread. It gets confusing when there are two students asking similar questions on the same thread.
@TransferBoiii Generally speaking, the more classes that you have in community college, the less important your high school grades will be.
To me it sounds like you do not yet have enough community college grades for them to ignore your high school grades. There is no harm in applying now. If you do not get accepted, then you can apply again next year when you have more college grades.
My guess is that this is going to take time and require that you get good grades in community college. Balancing your time working and your time studying will be important.
