chances of transfering

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>I am currently a first semester freshman at a private university in San Antonio, TX and am planning on transferring to UT Austin for the fall 2010 term for what would be my sophomore year. My current school is great the thing is it is getting too expensive. I am majoring in Psychology with pre-dental
• My GPA is a 3.27 as of last semester. I intend on bringing that up this spring semester.
• I am part of the psychology club here at school
• As well as big brothers big sisters club.
• I got the $30,000.00 Presidential Scholarship at my current school (if that is worth mentioning).<br>
• I worked at Phonathon as an associate (a fund raiser for the school where I get to contact alumni for donations).
I know they want students to mention any achievements within the past 5 years, so in my case that still includes high school. They are the following:
• 3rd place at the Annual Spanish Poetry Declamation contest at UT Austin my senior year
• Nominee for the National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine senior year
• Member of Health Occupations Students of America junior and senior year<br>
• Part of the 2008-2009 HST( health science technology) II program at school, very selective only 20 spots.
• Thanks to my HST class I got to do an internship at Gracywoods I nursing for a semester and North Austin Medical Center.
• I am a C.N.A. (certified nurse aid)<br>
• Took AP classes
• Early college start at ACC during the summer got 6 hours </p>

<p>Do I have any chance of getting in? Any suggestions to improve my chances?</p>

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<p>Did you include your six hours of ACC credit in the 3.27 GPA? If not, that could help boost it up. Your GPA is a little low but if you only have one semester of grades, you could easily knock it up quite a bit this spring. UT will not make a decision until you have grades for 30 hours of college credit for transfers. The lowest I’ve heard of getting into liberal arts was a 3.4. You have some very nice extras but it seems like UT goes heavily on numbers so I would focus on getting the GPA as high as possible. Knock it up to 3.5 and you are in for liberal arts (psychology) IMHO.</p>

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<p>I agree with Fiyero. I am currently in the same position as you, applying to COLA for the fall. I have a 3.33 and 27 hrs, but I am taking 17 this Spring and getting my Associate’s in Science in the summer. Bring your GPA up as high as possible and send them your updated transcript by June 15th. :)</p>

<p>Would you mind posting this in my thread? </p>

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