<p>I originally nearly dropped out of Cal Poly, SLO, engineering 3 years ago, then went back to CCC in San Diego where my GPA has been improving every semester; my last semester GPA was 3.8. I am in the Honors Program in San Diego but if you include my failing engineering grades from Cal Poly, SLO, my GPA is only about 3.1. I also work 20 hrs a week and am hearing impaired. I know "grade trends" are important for USC, but i'm afraid my 3.1 overall is too low despite my high honors program grades. My major is Poli Sci. Any thoughts guys? Thanks.</p>
<p>What happened to your grades at Cal Poly? Are they listed in their entirety at San Diego? </p>
<p>For how long have you attended San Diego and how many semesters of work will you have completed by application time? </p>
<p>I would also like to know what type of class grades were poor at Cal Poly. </p>
<p>Your EC/Work background is fine. I find highlighting your working hours and your juggling job and school more interesting with your impairment as an accentuation. </p>
<p>Your honors program participation shows that you are still challenging yourself (and excelling). </p>
<p>I'm not going to evaluate your transfer chances but would rather become familiar with your background as to provide some hopeful perspective when you apply since as you note your potential major is completely opposite to what you intended before. </p>
<p>The duration of your stay and your performance at San Diego will be paramount to what you had done previously with current recommendations from whatever highlighting your intellectual prowess. If you've addressed the despairing grades at the other places and have tied it in somehow with growth and character and future plans and then elaborate enormously on your dramatic improvement and so on while balancing a work life, it can only shine favorably and reflect a certain maturity on life choices. </p>
<p>Frankly, I think you will be okay if you provide a sound explanation for the previous, evaluate the present and have significant evidence (completed work at the present college) that show how you are a good applicant. </p>
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<p>Disclaimer: Instead of providing raw facts and information from the department of admissions, I simply reasoned your application. :( I hope it has made you slightly encouraged however since it does make sense - consider also that this is the sort of thread that is usually unanswered and left hanging to dry in the CC archives.</p>
<p>Thank you so much for responding to my post...I went to Cal Poly for one year. I got a D and F in calc classes. I got B's in speech and history, and some C's in english and engineering classes. Then I went to CCC for what will end up being 2 full years. I have completed 3 semesters thus far, and also have taken summer school and intersession. In my essays I highlighted my reasons for changing majors too. I kind of talked about how I was doing engineering for money, then decided that political science will give me more of an opportunity to do something I love. In my long essay I chose the topic on Newton's First Law. I wrote about how my life changed when I lost an ROTC scholarship out of high school for being hearing impaired and then talked about how my "disability" actually helped me in the long run. I also noted specifics like being made fun of in elementary school for wearing a hearing aid. I did try, as you pointed out, to really emphasis that the change and growth between Poly and CCC, and the change from Engineering to Poli Sci, goes hand in hand with my improved GPA. Unfortunately I could not really find a spot in the application to put emphasis on juggling work experience; I just stated it under the section on working.</p>
<p>Does CCC know about Cal Poly? If not, why bother including it in your app to transfer. Many people never include a school that they did badly at in their apps. Frankly, it's none of the new college's business.</p>
<p>no, you should include everything about your academic history esp. if you're a transfer.</p>
<p>if they find out that you didn't send in grades they can (and do, often enough) revoke your admission.</p>