Can a CC Student Transfer Into UCLA, U Penn, Dartmouth, Berkeley, or Cornell?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I sucked in High School. I mean, I bombed everything and I didn’t even care. The only college I applied to out of HS was my local California Community College. I knew I could have gotten into some low level 4-year schools, but I didn’t want to. It wasn’t until I began taking classes at my community college that I began to make an effort in life. I got a job as an EMT, I took photos for the Newspaper, won awards for the newspaper, and for the first time in my life I earned A’s in most of my classes. I also re-took the SAT (after studying a bit) and raised my score from a 1780 to a 2100. </p>

<p>So this is where I am in my life. I am about to start my fifth semester at my community college, and I am finally ready to transfer. I need to begin most of my applications around this time (Fall 2009 for Fall 2010). I intend to major in Anthropology, and have already taken a few steps in that direction. But I need help – badly. Money is tight, and I don’t want to waste it applying to 10 different schools that won’t even accept me. That’s why I need advice. </p>

<p>I am fairly certain that I will be accepted into both UCLA and Berkeley – as I have a 3.9 UC GPA, AND completed IGETC, AND completed all the Anthropology Lower Division requirements that the transfer guide website Welcome</a> to ASSIST lists. </p>

<p>That being said, I would LOVE to go to school out of state. Namely, I would like to attend U Penn, Dartmouth, NYU, Cornell, or UT. I have heard U Penn and Dartmouth in particular have excellent Anthropology programs. I have no idea what they want from me, or if they would accept me. I really need some advice on this. </p>

<p>• Intended Area of Study:
o Cultural Anthropology</p>

<p>• Colleges I’m looking at:
o UCLA
o Berkeley
o U Penn
o Dartmouth
o Cornell
o University of Texas
o NYU</p>

<p>• Major Prep Classes Completed at my Community College:
o Physical Anthropology – Grade: A
o Cultural Anthropology – Grade: A
o Sociology 101 – Grade: A
o Organismal and Environmental Bio (BIOSCI 106) – Grade: A
o Molecular and Cellular Biology (BIOSCI 107) – Grade: A
o Introductory Statistics (MATH 140) – Grade: A</p>

<p>• GPA:
o UC Transferable College GPA: 3.93 --- 60 completed units
o I have Completed IGETC (Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum)
o Cumulative College GPA: 3.7 --- 78 completed units (includes HS level classes taken at my local college)
o High School GPA: 2.8</p>

<p>• SAT:
o 2100</p>

<p>• Extra Curricular:
o Treasurer, Gamma Beta Phi (College Honor Society)
o Photographer, Canyon Call (My college’s publication)
o Member, Phi Beta Kappa
o Varsity Runner - Two years Cross Country runner in High School
o Completed Several Service Learning projects for a lot of community service hours</p>

<p>• Employment:
o Emergency Medical Technician (EMT): worked on an ambulance for the past year, resigned last month to concentrate on school
o English Tutor: currently working as an English tutor for my college in the TLC lab</p>

<p>• Awards, honors, whatnot:
o I received a congressional nomination to attend West Point Academy, but decided not to go.
o 1st Place: JACC’s (Journalism Association of Community Colleges) Feature Photo Competition @ the 2009 Conference(over three hundred competing photographers)
o Honorable Mention: JACC’s News Photo Competition @ the 2009 conference
o Won “Top Photographer” award Senior year HS
o Dean’s List, or President’s list or something like that, I forget what it’s called. Basically you get it if your gpa is above 3.5 at my college.
o Various ‘little awards’ that I don’t think are worth mentioning here.</p>

<p>• Recommendations:
o Several great Profs have told me they would write me recommendations when the time came.</p>

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<p>I love bumps!!!</p>

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<p>me too! wait are I not you?</p>

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<p>I hit a speed bump</p>

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<p>lol good job talking to yourself…</p>

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<p>lol good job talking to yourself…:-)</p>

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<p>hahaha same to you apparently :P</p>

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<p>You say money is tight, so I would stick to the UCs.</p>

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<p>Well…good thinking…but if I got into an ivy like Dartmouth or Penn i might consider loans? worth it?</p>

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<p>Monetarily, I don’t think it’s worth it, but if you really value education it might be. That said, if you really value education it might be better to go to a LAC like Reed.</p>

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<p>How can you be in Phi Beta Kappa? I thought they only gave that in four year institutions. Do you mean Phi Theta Kappa?</p>

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<p>Here is a list of undergrad schools that historically produce the highest percentages of future anthropology PhD earners. Don’t think of it as a ranking, but simply as identification of some schools that provide quality anthropology undergrad instruction. I emboldened the schools you mentioned. First posted by interesteddad.</p>

<p>Anthropology PhD production
Number of PhDs per 1000 graduates </p>

<p>Academic field: Anthropology </p>

<p>PhDs and Doctoral Degrees: ten years (1994 to 2003) from NSF database<br>
Number of Undergraduates: ten years (1989 to 1998) from IPEDS database<br>
Formula: Total PhDs divided by Total Grads, multiplied by 1000 </p>

<p>Note: Does not include colleges with less than 1000 graduates over the ten year period<br>
Note: Includes all NSF doctoral degrees inc. PhD, Divinity, etc., but not M.D. or Law. </p>

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1   Bryn Mawr College   16
2   Beloit College  10
3   Grinnell College    7
4   Reed College    7
5   University of Chicago   6
6   Pomona College  5
7   Bennington College  5
8   Harvard University  4
9   Vassar College  4
10  Sarah Lawrence College  4
11  Yale University 4
12  Wesleyan University 4
13  Hampshire College   4
14  Haverford College   4
15  Oberlin College 3
16  Carleton College    3
17  Barnard College 3
18  Bowdoin College 3
19  Wellesley College   3
20  Swarthmore College  3
21  Rice University 3
22  Stanford University 3
23  Kenyon College  3
24  Bard College    3
25  Princeton University    3
26  Brown University    3
27  Amherst College 3
28  Williams College    3
29  **Dartmouth College**    3
30  Smith College   3
31  Kalamazoo College   2
32  Brandeis University 2
33  Goucher College 2
34  Bates College   2
35  **University of California-Berkeley**    2
36  College of William and Mary 2
37  Hamline University  2
38  Hamilton College    2
39  Drew University 2
40  Washington and Lee University   2
41  **University of Pennsylvania**   2
42  Washington University   2
43  Case Western Reserve University 2
44  Macalester College  2
45  Lake Erie College   2
46  Colgate University  2
47  Agnes Scott College 2
48  Columbia University in the City of New York 2
49  Earlham College 2
50  Northwestern Univ   2
51  Duke University 2
52  Maryville College   2

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