I am a prospective transfer student for the Spring/Fall 2019 semesters for the Public Health Policy Major. I attended an out-of-state university for my first ever semester of college in 2014, and received terrible grades because I left the school early for personal reasons. I have received nearly straight As (15 As, 2 Bs) for the past four semesters and am nearing the maximum lower-division units allowed before transferring.
Including this first semester, my GPA is 3.06.
Excluding this first semester, my GPA is 3.54.
Knowing that a 3.06 GPA is not likely high enough to gain admission to UCI, is there anything that I can do at this point to help my chances?
I’ve emailed UCI Admissions several times over the past few weeks and have not received a reply as of yet. I was hoping someone here could help to provide some insight. Thank you in advance.
UCI will be more interested in how you are currently performing at your CC than how you did one semester at an OOS school. Also are the classes you took at the OOS school even UC transferable since UCI will be looking at your UC transferable GPA, if you have completed all your GE’s/Pre-Req’s and major requirements.
Will you have at least 30 units completed at your CC which will allow you to TAG to UCI?
I would think that Pre-Calc and Biology would be UC transferable, but First Aid/CPR does not look like a UC transferable course so your grades from these 2 classes would be calculated into your total UC transferable GPA.
So with these 2 courses, what would be your UC GPA?
Including those two courses and excluding the First Aid/CPR grade, my UC transferable GPA should be 3.14. The 9 units of failing grades from those two courses really hurt.
Thank you so much for posting those links. It seems like a long-shot that I’ll be able to get in. It looks like I’m right at the bottom of the admit GPA range for the Public Health Policy major. I suppose it may be a better option to apply for the Social Ecology major.
