<p>Applying for Spring 2010, transfer student.</p>
<p>Major: Economics
37 hours, 4.0 GPA</p>
<p>Essay Topic A: above average
Essay Topic E: average, controversial subject</p>
<p>Didn't submit resume (not required)
Didn't submit letter of recommendation (not required)</p>
<p>VERY weak in activities, community service, awards, and work experience.
I waited to the last day to submit everything, I don't know if that hurts me.</p>
<p>Please chance me!</p>
<p>I would say you have basically a 100% chance of getting in with a 4.0 GPA, but I am not sure of how different spring admissions is from fall admissions. I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you.</p>
<p>You are in.</p>
<p>I would say apply for business but, they don’t do spring admissions unforuntantly. If you really want to, you could wait and apply for next Fall. I have a friend who transfered into McCombs from a CC with a 3.9 with virtually no EC’s, resume, or a strong essay. He always comments on how poor the quality of students are at McCombs, so I say you’d have a good shot for McCombs if you want to wait.</p>
<p>If you apply for economics then I give you a 100% chance of getting in. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>
<p>Anyone else wanna chance me?</p>
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<p>Don’t worry about it. My friend and I applied a few days before the deadline, and our transcripts got there right on the deadline, talk about close. We both we’re admitted to our first choice majors, mechanical engineering and business.</p>
<p>Anymore opinions?</p>
<p>May I ask where you are transferring from? I am applying for the fall transfer, and I can’t tell if my current school (Galveston College) is considered a “challenging academic institution.”</p>
<p>No offense Radiosam, but I doubt UT would consider any community college to be academically challenging</p>
<p>I think it really depends on your teacher. For instance, my CC physics professor was harder than my teacher for my engineering statics class here at UT.</p>
<p>Well, QueenofEverythin, then UT is basically telling every CC student who wants to save some money that they are out of luck. And I don’t really see that happening, considering most of the transfer applicants come from ACC.</p>
<p>I talked to the admissions office and they told me I should have no problem, considering my 4.0 average and challenging curriculum.</p>
<p>radiosam, if your grades are high, you will get in. Plenty of people transfer from cc’s, get in just fine.</p>
<p>thanks ag54! that was the answer I was looking for!</p>
<p>Sorry radiosam, I think you misunderstood me. I was not referring to you personally. Your grades are excellent, and you should have no problem transferring into UT or succeeding once you are there. My statement was simply that community colleges are not considered “academically challenging” relative to a state flagship university.</p>
<p>Queen - under that assumption, no one transferring from a CC would ever be admitted at UT, and we know the opposite to be true. Contrary to popular myth, most CCs are not a cakewalk.</p>
<p>I guess my personal experience has been different. My oldest son attended A&M. He took some CC courses in the summer and they were unbelievably easy in comparison</p>
<p>It honestly all depends on the classes, the instructors and even the school itself. I have several UT students in my Calc class at ACC who decided to retake it there after failing 408K at UT, and they are constantly saying how much harder this class and professor are. You can get a pretty great education out of a community college if you take it seriously and seek out the right classes. If they weren’t challenging (or didn’t at least have some opportunities for challenging coursework) most of the kids that transfer to larger universities would likely cave under the pressure and rigor of a more traditional university curriculum.</p>
<p>forget trying to transfer into econ, wait until fall 10 and apply to the business school, with econ as your 2nd choice.</p>
<p>Plus, when I talked to the UT admissions office in Houston, they said that UT expects the transfer student’s GPA to drop about a point after they enroll. So they already take into consideration the fact that some courses at a CC will be less challenging.</p>
<p>I should have had my original question state “Would Galveston College be considered a challenging academic institution compared to other Texas CCs?”</p>
<p>^ agree…</p>