So as of right now, I am waiting for letters from UCI, UCSB, and UCD. I am currently attending a community college. When I first started college I had no idea what I was doing and was my not taking my first two years seriously. Starting my third year is when I try my best to get the best grades I can. As a result, I have an upward trend in my grades. As of right now, I got accepted to UCSC and rejected from SJSU. I have a feeling that I will get rejected from all the remaining UCs. So I am preparing for the worst and was wondering if I were to get rejected from all the remaining UCs, should I just transfer to UCSC or stay at my community college for one my year and raise my GPA up to a 3.4 and tag to UC Irvine as a Computer Science major.
My current overall GPA right now is 3.2 and my major is Computer Science. What do you guys think is the smart move to do?
If your goal is a college degree, you should get on with it. If the one school was worthy of an application, then it should be good enough to attend. Truly, you only need acceptance at one school because you can only attend one.
@bboyhungry I think since you are planning to major in Computer Science, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go to UCSC instead of waiting and wasting an additional year at CC, which might or might not raise your overall GPA by a nominal margin. Go to UCSC, major in Computer Science, and you will almost be guaranteed a job straight out of college since there is a shortage of skilled computer science majors, and pretty much every CS program at the UCs will give you the skills to enter the workforce.
Now if you were planning on majoring in the Social Sciences or Humanities, then it might be worthwhile to wait an additional year and reapply to the more prestigious UCs, since prestige matters a tad bit more for those kinds of majors.
In conclusion: Wait until all of your college decisions have been made, and if UCSC was the only UC you got into, I would suggest you go there instead of spending another year at CC.