I need advice.. CC Transfer

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I’m a biology major at a community college and I have an overall 3.2 GPA. I want to go to Davis but I’m not sure how competitive is can be… I know it’s hard to tell but are my chances of getting in low? Just need a second opinion cause I’m kind of bummed lol.

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A 3.2 is the absolute minimum for TAG admission to the College of Biological Sciences at Davis. Assuming that threshold doesn’t go up next year, you’ll need to stay above that (and make sure you have a 3.2 when considering only your UC transferable courses) and complete all of the other requirements to the letter.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/undergraduate/transfer/transfer-admission-guarantee/criteria/

https://www.ucdavis.edu/admissions/transfer/major-requirements-college-biological-sciences

If you can’t quite clear that bar, there are lots of other good options that don’t require as high stats. Are you working with an advisor at your CC?

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A couple of things: if you have a 3.2 GPA in CC at this very moment, without your spring grades reported, without any summer classes you may have taken recorded, and without the updated grades you’ll need to report after submitting your UC app next fall-- you still have a lot of opportunity to bring up your GPA. I applied to Davis, SB, and SD with a 3.3ish GPA, currently have a 3.38, and got in. After this semester, I will likely have something like a 3.5 (not that that will really matter, because I’m already admitted)

So, my advice: take some summer classes to bring up your GPA! Sign up for a late start intersession course! If you look at the UC Davis Fall 2020 Transfer thread on here, you’ll see that based on the GPA’s of those admitted, hard stats don’t seem to necessarily be the lone deciding factor in admission to Davis. It’s not UCLA or Berkeley.

Seriously though… if I got in as someone who didn’t graduate high school, with over 5 yrs of reported course work, 15+ W’s, and multiple F’s that have been remedied in a number of ways, I genuinely believe anyone with good enough essays and legit explanations for their shortcomings can.