<p>I'm a international student from Brazil currently attending Wake Technical College in North Carolina. I'll be graduating and getting my AA degree next fall. I really want to tranfer to UNC Chapel Hill, it's my dream school since I arrived here in the US. But I know it's a very competitive, selective and hard school to get in. But some people say that for transfer students from a North Carolina Community College, the process is a little bit easier. I wonder if I could get acepted there. I currently have a 3.45 GPA, I don't have an ACT or SAT score, but this is not required for transfer students with 60+ credit hours, that I'll have when I apply for the transfer. Is my GPA enough to get in? Do you have any adviser or recommendations to get into UNC?</p>
<p>In general, the process of transferring – especially if the student has good grades – isn’t difficult if the university has agreements in place with the local community college(s). Your best bet is to contact UNC directly, or research whether they provide average GPA for their transfer students to see how you compare. </p>
<p>UNC’s website says they have a 43% admission rate for transfer applicants, and their average junior-level transfer students have an average GPA of 3.61. </p>
<p>It also lists Wake Technical College as one of its top feeder schools for transfer students; which makes sense, given that the two schools are so close to each other. An experienced transfer adviser at your community college can probably tell you how you compare to other students who have been admitted to UNC in the past. </p>
<p>If you are thinking about going to graduate schools in NC, make sure that the graduate school accepts CC credits.</p>
<p>For example, OHSU(oregon health science University) doesn’t accept CC credit, even that of oregon ccs…</p>
<p>b@r!um, if the OP applies for Graduate school in NC later, and if that school doesn’t accept the cc credits, will it be a problem even the OP has AA? I am curious…because I saw some people-those who want to be doctors and transferred to OSU from portland cc-who was totally dumbfounded that OHSU doesn’t accept cc credit…</p>
<p>I have NEVER heard of a graduate program categorically excluding community college transfer students from admission (or requiring that they re-take all of the prerequisite courses for admission at a 4-year university). I find that hard to believe as well. Can you post a link?</p>
<p>It was more like an anecdotal.
My sister who previously planned to study medicine -she is a citizen and she changed to math major-once thought about going to pcc to save money and transfer to osu later. She emailed to OHSU admission to ask if such thing would give her disdvantage and she got a reply that said: OHSU doesnt accept community college credit and all classes must be taken in 4 yr university.
I have no idea if other states’ graduate schools have such policy. It could be that the admission gave her wrong answer, which I doubt, or if its just OHSU.
Or i could be totally wrong so please correct me if OHSU actually accepts cc credit.
@dowzerw I dont understand either.</p>
<p>The article states that medical schools frown upon applicants who are actually attending a 4-year university but take their pre-med courses at a community college instead, in order to avoid the competition at their home university and secure better grades.</p>
<p>It does not state that medical schools frown upon community college transfer students, and I couldn’t find an example of a medical school categorically denying admission to community college transfer students either. </p>
<p>Earlier you named a specific medical school that you claimed did just that: OHSU. Can you point to their website where they say something about community college credits? I read their admission requirements for the MD program and they seemed to be fine with pre-med coursework from community colleges. (They even accept AP credits for pre-med requirements, which some medical schools don’t.) </p>
<p>maybe thats what the email rrsponse from admission meant…again it was from the email not the website so the person who rrplied back to my sister may have given her unclear /wrong info. Sometimes even the people in admission give incorrect info…like when i asked uchicago if i could use naviance report in lieu of official report for cost issue, which i got the yes…and later i asked another person to make sure its correct info and she apologized for giving wronf info about score report.
I m really sorry for giving unclear info </p>