<p>Official Fall Community College 2006 Success Stories. Post stats and stories. Thanks.</p>
<p>SoCalBum</p>
<p>There's a good idea. I'll be interested to see what kinda posts this thread gets...I will be posting on here with some success stories (hopefully) in the spring.</p>
<p>community college (2004-2005)
rutgers university (2005-2006)
umichigan-ross (fall 2006)</p>
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<p>GPA: 3.78
Major: Electrical Engineering
Will Attend: UCLA</p>
<p>In HS I didn't care a lot about studies so after sophomore year I had a GPA of 2.75. I also had zero ECs etc. In my junior and senior year I took a bunch of AP courses and managed to get my GPA up to 3.65, but this was nowhere near the GPAs required by the top and mediocre UCs.</p>
<p>I applied to: UCLA, UCSD, UCI, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO</p>
<p>Accepted: UCR (lol), Cal Poly Pomona
Rejected: The rest.....</p>
<p>My dad wanted me to go to UCR but I said hell no....so I ended up at community college. Long story short, I didn't have any idea that transferring to UCs from CC would be so much easier.</p>
<p>A brief story:</p>
<p>Stellar student in middle school...A bunch of awards and crap</p>
<p>Two high schools in my town. School A is the prestigious school where the wealthier kids go. School B is seen as a crappy school in the poor area.</p>
<p>I go to school A. Everyone from my middle school goes to B, except for two others (and a couple of special ed kids). Doesn't work for them and they eventually leave the school.</p>
<p>Around same time, home life sucks. Domestic abuse, drugs, etc. Move into a bad neighborhood; standard of living drops. Isolation, semi-depression; start of a bad high school career.</p>
<p>Continues through high school. Finish high school with a low GPA. No colleges applied to; no intent to go to community college. No idea what I'm doing.</p>
<p>Certain situations make home life improve significantly after graduation. Good circumstances, girlfriend make satisfaction skyrocket. Start community college with intent to get a TAA to Davis. Dream school: USC</p>
<p>After first semester of community college with a 4.0, the reality of my college career hits me. Start obsessing over plans for transferring, researching majors, career plans, life plans. Find out that I love Economics. Decide that USC sucks :)</p>
<p>A Davis visit later, decide that I have no interest in the Davis scene. Girlfriend intends to stay in the Bay Area. At this point Berkeley looks like a reach to me. Insecure about my ability to maintain a 4.0. For lack of better Bay Area choices, I decide to reach.</p>
<p>Three 4.0 semesters later, here I am :) I would have never imagined myself at Berkeley two years ago :)</p>
<p>Previous: Nassau Community College (2004-2006)</p>
<p>Applied, Accepted, WILL ATTEND: Cornell University (Fall 2006)</p>
<p>Cumulative GPA 3.82</p>
<p>umm...only applied to Cornell. Big gamble but in the end, ching ching</p>
<p>You were probably looking for someone who got into Berkley or UCLA from a Cali CC, but this is an East Coast CC transfer success story.</p>
<p>All community college success stories are wanted. Alot of Cali CC'ers apply to East Coast schools to and vice versa. </p>
<p>SoCalBum</p>
<p>true, cali ccers go to east coast schools, not many east coast ccers make it into cali universities though, at least not Berkley or UCLA, can't speak for Davis, Irvine, Riverside, etc.</p>
<p>yes i love to hear somebody get into cornell from a community college since that's one place i can definitely picture myself.</p>
<p>When I was 18 months old, my parents noticed my head tilting oddly and my failure to hit early childhood milestones. After a series of consultations, they were finally filled in on what the problem was: I had a case of hydrocephalus and an advanced pineoblastoma (an especially fast growing type of brain tumor situated near or on the pineal gland). Prognosis: "Your son probably has, at most, a year to live. On the odd chance that treatment is successful (most pediatric pineoblastoma patients die) he'll most likely be in a vegetative state for the rest of his life."</p>
<p>Let's skip ahead two years and change. I haven't merely survived. I'm reading books in kindergarten ... and they're not Dr. Seuss books. I'm reading, among other things, the collected works of William Shakespeare. It sounds like I'm on the fast track towards an early college career, right?</p>
<p>Sadly, you would be wrong if you thought that. My brother, Matt, was 15 months my junior and happened to suffer from a completely unrelated malady: a combined auto-immune deficiency. So, between the my frequent need for surgery and his need for a bi-weekly IV-IG treatment and frequent surgery our family spends most of its time sitting around the hosiptal beds of two kids. After several years of trying to keep up with our workloads and putting up with your garden variety sadistic pre-teens, we finally give up on school around seventh grade. </p>
<p>Skipping ahead several years, I've managed to coast through high school with minimal effort--and an unimpressive record--and Matt is a junior at his high school. At this point, I decided to take school seriously again and enroll at Shasta College. At first, I do very ,very well. However, during semester break, my mom is diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer and Matt falls ill even by my family's standards. On top of this, my maternal grandfather--our surrogate father figure--starts to rapid decline in health as well. </p>
<p>By the time February rolls around, I've buried both my grandfather and my brother and my mother has, in her grief, endured two of what will turn out to be sixteen surgeries. In between bouts of massive drug abuse, consuming 1.75 liter bottles of Maker's Mark on a regular basis, and wrapping up all the issues involving both funerals, I barely finish the semester with a 3.06 average.</p>
<p>Over the next two semesters, I gradually sober up and--with a fair amount of uncertainty--I apply to the following schools: Berkeley, UCLA, UCI, UCSB, and UCSC. Surprisingly, I'm accepted to all five and choose Berkeley, which is the school I visited with Matt when we were planning our college careers during his last year of school.</p>
<p>That is my "success story," if one wants to put it that way.</p>
<p>Congratz Eschatos =)</p>
<p>Wow...congrats Eschatos</p>
<p>Me:</p>
<p>Community College in AZ (2005-2006)</p>
<p>Accepted to: Mills College, Smith College, and the University of Southern California</p>
<p>Going to: U. of Southern CA (fall 2006)</p>
<p>I was homeschooled throughout high school and graduated from my CC after attending for only three full semesters.</p>
<p>I'm a member of Phi Theta Kappa, as well as the National Dean's List, and have been on my own school's Dean's List every semester. I also won a fairly prestigious news writing award. I took 22 credits this past spring and finished that semester with a 3.864 GPA. </p>
<p>Cumulative GPA is 3.7, graduated magna cum laude. </p>
<p>Applied: Columbia, Fordham, NYU, Drew, Fairleigh Dickinson.
Accepted: All
Attending: Columbia</p>
<p>I just found out that I got in to Columbia today. Im beyond thrilled! Its been my dream school forever.</p>
<p>congratulations dot_parker. That is incredible!</p>
<p>In April 2005 I went to my counselor and asked about graduating high school a year early (after my junior year). She told me that I could fulfill the "Recommended Plan" diploma requirements by taking dual credit classes at the local CC (Tarrant County College). I took all those classes, managed a 3.25, and decided I would attend TCC another year.</p>
<p>Since I was only a mediocre high school student and had only taken Algebra II, I was placed in a remedial math class. About two weeks into the Fall 2005 semester I couldn't take it anymore. Those people were a bunch of ****ing retards. I was thinking about applying to NYU-Stern and one of the requirements is Calculus. Obviously remedial math isn't calc so I figured I would just teach myself Pre-Cal and test into calc. The next week I ordered the Pre-Cal textbook from Amazon and got started. The requirement on the AccuPlacer test to get into calc is 103. About two months after I started teaching myself I was up from 43 to 70. Another month later (day of finals) I was at 92. The Friday before classes and the last time I would be able to take the test I scored a 105, got into calc, dropped business calc, and registered for calc. I ended up with a 3.75 for the Fall semester.</p>
<p>Spring comes along and obviously I'm excited because my NYU plans aren't in ruins. After looking on here an realizing that I don't really have a good chance at NYU-Stern I decide not to apply. My SAT scores suck donkey balls (480v/420w/520m) so I start to look elsewhere. I ended up applying to BU and SMU. I started researching all of the schools and SMU's business school is ranked #20 and BU's was somewhere in the 30's or 40's i think. I toured SMU and fell in love with the school. I got the acceptance packet from SMU in late april and sent my $500 deposit a week later. I checked online at BU in late May and they rejected me. I ended up with a 3.5 for the spring semester. I got a B in calc.
I will be attending SMU this fall with 39 hours under my belt at the time I am supposed to be just starting college. I will also be double majoring in Finance and Economics. Part of the Economics degree is graduate work so I will get my masters a year after I get my bachelors.</p>
<p>In summary:
High School:
-GPA: 8.8/12
-No ECs. Only awards were Recommended Plan and Three-Year Graduate.</p>
<p>College:
-GPA: 3.5
-Phi Theta Kappa, Dean's List Fall 2005</p>
<p>Wow, I feel like I was in the same situation as you with the SAT scores! This proves that once again SAT scores doesn't determine the success in college. congrats</p>
<p>wow that is an inspiring story...and i don't think you missed out on anything by not getting into BU. Enjoy SMU!</p>
<p>what does smu stand for?</p>
<p>southern methodist university</p>