Official Community College Transfer Results - 2009 and beyond

Transfer Students
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<p>I decided to make a thread for transfer students from community colleges. When I started my application process as a prospective community college transfer student, I desperately looked for some info about community college transfers. So, I believe such thread will be useful to future applicants. Please post your outcomes in the usual format (feel free to add fields, if I missed something).</p>

<p>Age:
HS GPA:
CC GPA:
SAT/ACT:
Extracurriculars:
Work experience:
Transfer standing:
Intended major:
Accepted:
Rejected:
Attending:</p>

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<p>Age: 27
HS GPA: 4.0 UW
CC GPA: 4.0 (over 60 credits - half were remedial/professional/PE and some were honors)
SAT/ACT: did not take
Extracurriculars: None
Work experience: Bad but stable job over seven years
Transfer standing: Sophomore
Intended major: Biology/Econ
Accepted: Columbia GS, Northwestern SCS, UPenn LPS
Rejected: Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Cornell-SAS, Middlebury, WashU-Olin
Attending: not sure (but will appreciate any advice via PM).</p>

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<p>Age: None of your business
HS GPA: Can’t remember (<2.0)
CC GPA: 3.69, 4.0 math and cs
SAT/ACT: Never took
Extracurriculars: PTK VP of Services; Obama Precinct Captain and delegate to county and state convention
Work experience: Currently a math tutor, lots of warehouse and manufactoring jobs before
Transfer standing: Junior
Intended major: Computer Science/Applied Mathematics
Accepted: University of the Pacific
Rejected: Waitlisted at Occidental
Attending: None (reapplying for Spring because of financial reasons)</p>

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<p>Age: 20
HS GPA: N/A
CC GPA: 3.8
SAT/ACT: 2050
Extracurriculars: clubs, volunteer
Work experience: major-related internship
Transfer standing: junior
Intended major: architecture
Accepted: uc berkeley, ucla, cca, cal poly pomona
Rejected: N/A
Attending: waiting still.</p>

<p>feel free to pm me don’t want to disclose too much here</p>

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<p>Age: 21</p>

<p>HS GPA: 3.86</p>

<p>CC GPA: 3.93</p>

<p>SAT/ACT: NA</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Phi Alpha Mu Member, Phi Theta Kappa Member, Alpha Gamma Sigma Member, Psi Beta Member, Astronomy Club: Secretary, EOPS Honors Club: Historian, Model United Nations: Fiscal Affairs Manager, Vice President, Habitat for Humanity: President, Student Senator, and served on 6 Shared Governance Committees.</p>

<p>Work experience: Waitress</p>

<p>Transfer standing: Junior</p>

<p>Intended major: Political Science </p>

<p>Accepted: Amherst College, College of William & Mary, Georgetown University, Smith College, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, University of Richmond, and Wellesley College</p>

<p>Rejected: Bowdoin College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, Middlebury College, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, and Vassar College</p>

<p>Attending: Amherst College :D</p>

<p>I’m glad to see CC students doing so well. Let’s break the stereotype!</p>

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<p>Age: 27
HS GPA: <2.0
CC GPA: 3.82
SAT/ACT: Don’t remember
Extracurriculars: No time
Work experience: Banking/Finance
Transfer standing: Junior
Intended major: Finance
Accepted: William & Mary, UVA, JMU, VT, GMU
Rejected: U. of Richmond
Attending: William & Mary</p>

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<p>Age: 22
HS GPA: Terribad
CC GPA: 3.83
SAT/ACT: None
Extracurriculars: Volunteering
Work experience: U.S Armed Forces
Transfer standing:Sophomore
Intended major: Eastern Asian Studies
Accepted:Pending USC
Rejected: Didn’t apply to anywhere else
Attending:Rose State College, Oklahoma</p>

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<p>Age:23
HS GPA:N/A
CC GPA:3.71 (3.6 at the time of application)
SAT/ACT:
Extracurriculars:Solid
Work experience:fairly extensive
Transfer standing:Sophomore
Intended major:Econ
Accepted:U of MN-TC, U of MI-AA, Columbia GS
Rejected:UNC-CH, BC
Attending: University of Michigan</p>

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<p>Age: 26
HS GPA: GED
CC GPA: 3.78
SAT/ACT: Did not take
Extracurriculars: very few
Work experience: part-time job
Transfer standing: junior
Intended major: Latin American studies
Accepted: UNC at Chapel Hill, U of M Ann Arbor, U of W Madison
Rejected: None
Attending: UNC</p>

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<p>Age:20
HS GPA: N/A
CC GPA: 3.4 (65 credits)
SAT/ACT:N/A
Extracurriculars: Debate team
Work experience: none
Intended major:
Accepted: SUNY Albany, Bing, Geneseo, New Paltz
Rejected: none
Attending: UAlbany</p>

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<p>Age: 19
HS GPA: like 2.5?
CC GPA: 3.6
SAT/ACT: N/A
Extracurriculars: Hillel (Jewish organization), and volunteering with kids
Work experience: none
Transfer standing: Almost done?
Intended major: Political Science-IR<br>
Accepted: UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, and UC Santa Barbara
Rejected: UC Berkeley.
Attending: UCLA!</p>

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<p>Age: 22
HS GPA: Failed (adult ed. diploma)
CC GPA: 3.7
SAT/ACT: No
Extracurriculars: None
Work experience: retail store manager
Transfer standing: Junior
Intended major: Civil Engineering
Accepted: UCLA, UCB, UCSD + other UCs
Rejected: none
Attending: UCSD</p>

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<p>Experiment8, why did you decide on UCSD over UCLA and UCB?</p>

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<p>Age: 17
HS GPA: N/A
CC GPA: 3.89, 3.9 UC
SAT/ACT: Not telling you :x Haha decent.
Extracurriculars: Pretty good.
Work experience: None due to Visa status, but loads of volunteer.
Transfer standing: Sophomore/Junior?
Intended major: English
Accepted: UC San Diego, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Boston College
Rejected: I don’t feel like repeating. lol The highly prestigious ones picking only 15 transfers and such x)
Attending: BOSTON COLLEGE!</p>

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<p>“Experiment8, why did you decide on UCSD over UCLA and UCB?”</p>

<p>Location! After visiting the UCs last summer I couldn’t imagine living in Berkeley or LA over La Jolla IMO. I never gave the ‘prestige’ factor a second thought considering I never imagined I would attend <em>any</em> UC in the first place.</p>

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<p>Congrats to all of you…I can only imagine the work it took!</p>

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<p>Age: 25, birthday in July (send money), though, so will be 26 when I matriculate
HS GPA: uber-bad, hilariously bad.
CC GPA: 4.0
SAT/ACT:700/700/700 (though I did not submit my SAT scores to some of the places I applied)
Extracurriculars:PTK, Philosophy Club, volunteered some for Habitat For Humanity
Work experience: United States Military Veteran (Active Army, took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom, UN joint-military training mission with Indonesian Army)
Transfer standing: Sophomore/Junior
Intended major: Philosophy
Accepted: Columbia University, Amherst College, UC Berkeley, NYU, UMass Lowell (safety)
Rejected: none
Attending: Amherst College, yo. It was the one I wanted all along.</p>

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<p>Wow, congratulations are in order for all of you. I wish we could all meet and have a pizza party or something.</p>

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<p>bump! There are so many cc students on here who need to see this!</p>

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<p>this thread gives me hope</p>