Hi, I’m coming in as second-year CC student and I’ve gotten a great GPA of a 4.0 this far at my current school. I’m looking to transfer to UCSC, UCI, UCSD and Cal. However, I attended UC Davis a couple of years back for a year and I received horrible grades. I was going through a rough time in my life being majorly depressed, and left UCD with a 2.45 GPA.
I was stupid and didn’t realize until recently that I needed to include my old UCD grades. I’m looking to apply to Santa Cruz for TAG at the moment and I found that my current stats are as follows:
- ASSIST-Certified Course Units: 37.67/56.50
- UC Course Units: 19.33/29.00 with a GPA of 2.35.
My overall GPA according to the planner/wesbite is a 3.40. I’m freaking out over a few things.
- Will I be considered a UC-to-UC transfer or a CC-to-UC transfer (since I heard my status will affect financial aid)?
- Am I going to have to be wary of the amount of classes I need to take at my CC from now on? Like, how many more units would I actually need to take before reaching unit cap for transferring to a UC?
- Will my past experience at Davis reflect poorly in the eye of admissions officers? I really bounced back from my downward spiral since attending CC and hope they could take that into account. At Davis, I was taking classes for a major I loathed. I started over at my CC taking classes solely for the new major I want to get into. I would have prefered not to list my Davis grades but it seems mandatory.
- I’ve heard about academic renewal and is it possible for me to do that with units from a UC if I wanna get into another UC? Can I re-take some classes at one of the UCs I might transfer to?
- Since the courses from my first UC seem to be taken into account for TAG, does that mean my GPA won’t reset and I’ll be coming into whatever school with a 2.35?
Sorry for the huge number of questions. I will try to contact admissions officers from my desired transfer schools as well as an academic counselor ASAP, but I’d appreciate any responses I could get from others here.