Community College freshman with bad HS gpa doing well in college and wanting to transfer next year

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I ended highschool with a 3.0 GPA, due to many things, Covid being one of them, but also my inability to care about non core classes.

Currently, I am in community college, studying CS and IT, and I am doing great. I am taking my core classes, along with some very hard networking non pre req courses with 5+ credits. I currently have a 3.9, and I want to bump it up to a 4.0 next semester.

However, I want to transfer next year. I am currently not satisfied with my educational environment, and I feel like I’m the only one who cares here. My professors love me and constantly use me as an example (which is weird for college). I know a lot of you will encourage me to be realistic and wait another year, because it is smarter, but my environment really is just not cutting it.

I am filling out my transfer apps soon for:

UGA
Tulane
Umich
Rutgers (I currently live in New Jersey)
Northeastern
Penn State

Do I have a chance at any of these schools? Will I have to wait another year to even think about these schools? I am a strong essay writer, and I am also planning an internship to begin this semester.

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Your community college should have a transfer advisor. Go see this person asap. They should be able to help you.

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I second talking to your CC advisor.

If you waited a year, your HS record won’t be a large part of the transfer admissions decision, if at all.

Whereas if you apply for Fall 2023 entry, your HS record will be important to the admissions decision…and that is below what it seems your potential is.

Also, if you do apply this year and are denied from these schools, that will be an extra hurdle to overcome if you re-apply next year.

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Penn State doesn’t accept 2nd year transfers to University Park (main campus). You would need to go to a commonwealth (branch) campus for a year, then move to main campus your junior year.

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Yes, I was thinking Altoona for a year then UP. But that’s really only if I don’t get in anywhere else.

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Meaning there’s a lesser chance I get in next year if I was ever denied?

I know there’s no guarantees, with admissions. However, I feel with my current situation, I would most likely get into Rutgers (offers dual enrollment, and partners with my cc to offer transfer options), UGA (accepts 75% of transfers, many being from cc’s), and PSU (being a freshman, I would have to apply to a satellite with a higher acceptance rate for my sophomore year).

However, I would be lying if I didn’t say I saw myself more at the other schools, as I had toured them all with my brother, felt out the environments, and know students at all of them.

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Yes.

What state are you in?

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New Jersey

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Did you apply to Rutgers last year?

Not sure why you would want to spend a year in Altoona, then move to PSU? As an OOS student?

Have you talked to your CC advisor?

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My cousin raves about the information sciences being an underrated program at State and is doing quite well for himself now as an alum. Everyone I know who attends/attended loves/loved it. That’s why I would entertain the idea.

No, I didn’t apply to Rutgers, my mind was in a lot of places last year during the process, and my family was considering moving (still are, just delayed now) for a million different reasons last November. So for that reason, I applied to colleges all around the country, in fact everywhere but Jersey.

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I am waiting for my final midterm grade to just solidify my straight A’s for the quarter to start the discussion with my advisor. Planning to talk to them this week.

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There’s a somewhat active UofM transfer thread on here that you may want to look at …

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ummm…what about $$?

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True story. Family member here actually was asked to leave college his freshman year because of grades. He went to a community college for a year, and was allowed to return to his previous college where he was dismissed permanently because of grades.

He says…the biggest mistake he has ever made was not completing two full years at the community college, and then going to a four year…and probably not the same one.

Please, a four year college will be there. You will be able to demonstrate more of what you can do by completing a this year, and then continuing next and applying to a four year after that.

Talk to the transfer advisor. Find out what your best path is. Don’t rush applying to a four year school…see what the transfer advisor says.

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