I want to transfer! Help!

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<p>Right now I'm attending SMC (Yuuuuuck! Can't wait to get out!) and plan to apply for Fall '08 to admission as a Junior.</p>

<p>I graduated high school in '05 and took a year off to go live and work in the UK, for the experience. I just got back this summer and started school a week later... Do you think they will like the fact that I took a year off to go live abroad or do you think they would look down on it? </p>

<p>Anyway, right now I have a 3.63 but plan to raise it to at least like a 3.8? (By the end of this summer) I don't have many ECs other than the fact that I work 30 hours a week and go to school full time... but I am also (on the side) learning Arabic and I was planning on maybe going to volunteer in South Africa this summer. I want to major in International Relations (hopefully double major in Political Science too but I don't know how likely that would be as a transfer). How competitive is this major?</p>

<p>My high school is REALLY weak so that's why I'm not applying as a sophomore. My GPA was like 2.9 unweighted and my SAT was like 1030 (old SAT), with like no ECs. I really hope that they don't hold that against me because I've changed soo much since high school and actually CARE about school now haha.</p>

<p>Anyway, any advice anyone could give me would be very helpful :) (from current students or prospective transferees!) of what would better my chances. Thanks!</p>

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<p>if you have a 3.6 on a year's worth of college work, and you've done core classes like writing, then you might actually have a shot applying earlier. your hs gpa and sat mean less now that you've demonstrated ability in college. lots of people transfer in after only one year.</p>

<p>I don't fully understand what you're saying though...you just started college this summer but you already have a 3.63 gpa?</p>

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<p>I just started school in June (I took 8 units over summer) so just by that my GPA is a 3.63. So for them not put a lot of emphasis on my high school records, I need to have 30 units, but I only have 8 so far haha. This is my first real semester I guess! I've satisfied my western cultures and traditions requirement, 2nd semester language, and right now I'm doing my scientific inquiry requirement, 3rd semester of a language, and what would be the equivilent of WRIT130. I'm hoping to get all of my GE out of the way by the end of summer.</p>

<p>Thanks for replying by the way :)</p>