<p>Currently, I'm attending a CC in California and my GPA is about 2.81. I figure if I take care of a couple lower grades I received and finish out my remaining semesters well, I should be able to achieve a 3.5+ GPA. Assuming I complete the required lower-division courses and finish with a GPA around 3.5, what would my chances be of getting accepted as a transfer to USC for their accounting program (monetary issues aside)? I don't participate in any extracurricular activities or anything like that, which I hear USC looks considerably at, so I know that would hurt.</p>
<p>Right now I'm leaning towards transferring to CSUF, but I'd still like to know how realistic an option USC would be.</p>
<p>Slim to none. Transfer admissions are really cut-throat at highly ranked schools. </p>
<p>I don’t really see how you can “take care of some classes” and finish out doing well. From where you are now to where you want to be, that will be a virtual 180. If you seriously can’t get a 3.5 at a community college from the get go, forget USC and good luck with CSUF.</p>
<p>I appreciate the response and the honesty. I know my GPA isn’t great; especially for a CC. I’ve only recently really started to take my school work seriously (boy do I wish I had been this motivated starting at HS), so I know I’ve got some catching up to do.</p>
<p>well, you can’t change the past. usc is actually pretty easy to get into as a transfer, but you would really need to pull up your CC GPA to a 3.5+. given your academic history, are you really prepared to step up and do that?</p>
<p>i agree with binks that you are probably better off looking at csuf. obviously it can’t hurt to apply to usc, but i wouldn’t count on an admission. seeing as how the leventhal accounting program has been consistently ranked in the top 5 in the nation, i’m not sure it would be a realistic program for you even if you were to get accepted into usc. accounting is a lot harder for transfers to do well in than students who start out at usc.</p>
<p>I believe that I could possibly get my current GPA of 2.81 to a 3.5+ if I retake a couple of courses that I did poorly in (and my grade reflects that obviously). You say that USC is actually pretty easy to get into as a transfer… does that apply to someone such as me who has literally been involved in zero extracurricular activities? If so, and a 3.5+ GPA and the completed lower-division courses is all that I really need, I might have to reconsider USC, even if accounting is tougher for transfer students. </p>
<p>You won’t make it. You’d need a couple semesters of 4.0 to bump that up. Your current GPA doesn’t indicate you have the ability to do that either.</p>
<p>If I were at looking at me I probably wouldn’t think I could do it either. But I really do feel like I could get it done if I work hard enough. I don’t know if I already mentioned it, but I probably have three semesters left before I’ll be able to transfer. And JFTR, I’ve been attending this CC since fall 08. I started out very unmotivated and just to give you an idea, I completed only TWO courses in my first two semesters. Yes, two. Again, I really do feel like I could bring it up to a 3.5+. If not, at the very least I will have tried hard doing so.</p>
<p>So again, suppose I were to get it up to a 3.5+, would that be all I really need (because I did figure it would be more than that)? Or would my lack of ECs ultimately doom me? Thx.</p>
<p>“usc is actually pretty easy to get into as a transfer, but you would really need to pull up your CC GPA to a 3.5+” is this true if i wanted to transfer from uci to usc? and what more would i need to be competitive?</p>