Recently became a California Resident but has international Transfer Credits

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>HOW SLIM ARE MY CHANCES?</p>

<p>I am a recently declared California resident and I have gone through the De La Salle University- Manila in the Philippines for 2 years and had an average of 3.5 GPA's until the last trimester that I messed up which pulled my GPA down to a 2.8 because of a lot of personal reasons. I was on the Football(SOCCER) team and in a political platform organization within my university. I have 92 units of Trimester credits with GE classes and political Science major classes.</p>

<p>Since I have moved, I attended community college and have a GPA of 3.5. It is not special but I have been taking an average of 23 units per semester and have been handling clubs and running a small business. </p>

<p>I was president of the Business Club which is affiliated with FBLA-PBL and won an award for Accounting and Finance for one of the conferences. I am currently the president of the International Business Association which I recently affiliated with ENACTUS the organization. During my first year in the community college, I joined 3 other organizations holding leadership positions in all of them. I am thinking of also joining the Student Council. I am going to join the honors society and try to be part of the symposium. </p>

<p>I moved here as a University student so I did not take SATs or ACTs. I took so many leadership roles in high school and did all the sports as varsity. I have awards as a high school student but I imagine they will be useless since my participation only in the local community college and my university will be looked at. </p>

<p>I am also running a small tutoring business for high school students and college students. Do you think that will justify my 3.5? </p>

<p>I know what I am doing is not enough and I should be doing more so I came to ask for more advice and what can compensate for my grades being that low and also do you think without SAT and ACT scores coming from a foreign country, can I still look into private universities like Harvard, Princeton, etc.</p>

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<p>The universities will look at the level of coursework you are taking at the CCC. Calculus, physics, chemistry and the STEM types of coursework would be considered.<br>
International coursework may not transfer. EC’s are important but they consider GPA first. Transfers at those ivy universities are very competitive and almost non-existent. Try for other schools too.</p>

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<p>Your lack of ACT or SAT scores will have no impact on your transfer chances to a UC. I’m pretty sure you will still need to take TOEFL or IELTS, though. Most schools require that you take 3 years of college in the US, OR pass one of the tests to demonstrate ability to speak English. They require this even after you pass transferable English composition classes at a cc… Which is weird, IMO, but it’s their requirement anyway.
While your community college coursework will matter more than your foreign classes, they will still somewhat matter. Admissions officers at the UCs you apply to will request syllabi for classes they think are equivalent to classes that each UC offers. You will have 5 days to email them a copy of the syllabi they request, so make sure to have everything in hand. Each UC will then evaluate your syllabi and determine what classes are equivalent or not, and which ones transfer or not.
Another thing, even though some of your foreign classes may not transfer, the units will still be counted. For the UCs that cap how many units you can have prior to transfer, that might be a problem. I did hear that the UCs weren’t going to set a limit to that anymore, but I don’t know when that starts, or if it’s going to happen at all.
I think you have plenty of extracurriculars. Focus on getting your GPA up now. Good luck!</p>