Hi everybody,
I plan to transfer to a UC in Fall 2018 and I’m just hoping for your 2 cents on what schools I can expect to get into.
Age: 22
Sex: M
Race: Caucasian (born in Kazakhstan and speak fluent Russian, but I’ve lived in CA entire life)
School: College of San Mateo
GPA: 3.55
IGETC: yes
Fall 2013:
Media law/ethics , B-
Hist. of graphic design, C
English 1, C
Conceptual physics, W
(9 units, 2.23 gpa)
Spring 2014:
Interpersonal comm., B-
Macroeconomics, D
Algebra, F
(3 units, 2.70 gpa)
Spring 2015:
English 2, D+
US History 2, C
Algebra, W
(3 units, 2.0 gpa)
Spring 2016:
English 2 (retake), A-
Algebra (retake), A
US Politics, A
(11 units, 3.90 gpa, deans list) + president of democrats club
Summer 2016:
Intro to life sciences, A
(3 units, 4.0 gpa)
Fall 2016:
Gen. Chem 1, A
Trigonometry, A
Gen. Psych, A
Macroeconomics (retake), A
(15 units, 4.0 gpa, deans list) + vp and treasurer of democrats club, ICC representative for botany club
Spring 2017:
Gen. Chem 2, A
Gen. Zoology, A
Calc 1 (for engineers), A-
(15 units, 3.90 gpa, deans list)
Summer 2017:
Calc 2 (for engineers), A
(5 units, 4.0 gpa)
Planned coursework:
Fall 2017:
Org. Chem 1
Botany
Stats
Yoga 1
(15 units)
Spring 2018:
Org. Chem 2
Intro to cell bio
Gen. Microbio
Yoga 2
(15 units)
So I know my grades were horrible at first and I have a couple large gaps in education. I don’t want to go into detail too much but my family was going through a lot- my parents got a divorce and I was living with my grandma who I had to take care of (I still live with her and am her caretaker). I’m also a part-time legal guardian for my little cousin who doesn’t have a father- the four of us (aunt, grandma, cousin, me) all live together.
In 2014 I worked full time for a valet company for about 6 months, in 2015 I worked at Safeway for about 3 months until I found a job at a gym where I worked for 1 year until summer 2016.
I’m applying for Fall 2018 TAG to UCSB this semester as well as just the regular Fall 2018 admission to all UCs. My dream schools are UCB and UCLA.
Side note: I plan on joining our schools honor society this semester which will provide me with volunteer opportunities. I have a lot of random volunteer hours but they are all unrecorded.
Also I don’t really know if I need gen microbio or yoga 1/2- it’s just so I finish at CSM with associates in science. If that doesn’t really matter, maybe I should drop those classes and spend extra time volunteering? Or I can retake conceptual physics.
Anyway, if you actually read/skimmed through this, thank you. Let me know what you think.