<p>I am currently a freshmen at the University of Central Florida, I intend to major in civil engineering. I had never considered attending UF while I was in my senior year of highschool hence why I never applied. I have recently nvisted the campus on a couple occasions and instantly I knew that was where I wanted to attend, now the question is, is this realistic? The problem is UF only takes junior transfers with 60 credits I plan on completing the 60 credits by the end of my summer term while mainintg a 3.8 GPA. Would this looks bad to admissions that I am transfering after one year although I had completed 60 credits and my engineering pre reqs. </p>
<p>My Fall, Spring, and Summer terms will look like this</p>
<p>Summer B
Psychology-A
Trig-A</p>
<p>Fall
Calculus I
ENC 1102
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Intro To Engineering I</p>
<p>Spring
Calculus II
Physics for Engineers
Chemistry I
Philopshy
Intro to Engineering II</p>
<p>Summer C
Calculus III
Differential Equations
Physics for Engineers II
Chemistry II</p>
<p>In addition to those courses I have CLEPT out of Biology, and two American History classes.</p>
<p>Again I plan to maintain atleast a 3.8 GPA, do you think that I have chance as a Fall 2009 Transfer after only one year but still a completion of 60 credits?</p>
<p>Intro to Engineering? Didn't know there were such classes, but it sounds like a BS seminar class. UF to my knowledge doesn't require anything like that.</p>
<p>^ You might be surprised about the "BS" class. A lot of intro classes are still pretty detailed and tough. I've taken intro to geology, and intro to nutrition for dual enrollment classes. I had to fight hard to get an 'A' in those classes.</p>
<p>Geology isn't engineering. I just looked at the general engineering curriculum and there is no mention of "intro to engineering I/II" being a requirement for graduation, so those courses may not give credit.</p>
<p>I doubt it will affect admissions, but 2 classes you won't need just pushes back graduation further. It's very hard to get all your credits to transfer even between state schools. I have a friend who is on the 6 year plan in engineering due to this.</p>
<p>Well at ucf it is a required course for any upper division engineerings, so I still plan on comleteting it if I do not get accepted. Any thoughts about my chances?</p>
<p>Apply for an AA for Summer term of next year. All universities grant them. Even if you stay at UCF, it's not going to hurt you receive one. This will at least show UF concretely that you finished 60 credits and are ready to transfer into an upper division program. Besides, some college websites at the university state that preference is given to both community college AND in-state university transfers with an AA while others only say they give preference to CC transfers. </p>
<p>Transfer admission eligibility isn't based on the number of years in college, only on the number of credits earned.</p>
<p>As for classes transferring, if you have an AA, UF must give you a minimum of 60 credits. Even if they don't have equivalents for all of your courses, you will still receive 60 "bulk credits" as they call it.</p>
<p>do you really think that having an AA will make my application that much more competitive? As of know how do you think I stand because Im not sure how I can add spech into the schedule as of now its seems like its kinda full, any suggestions?</p>
<p>I am aware of the prereqs I need, and the fact I need completion of 60 credits by the end of the summer term. I am just unaware of how would I stand, how competitive is my application now and how much more competitive would having an AA make me.</p>
<p>"do you really think that having an AA will make my application that much more competitive"</p>
<p>Yes, because it goes back to some lame public policy agreement that goes back to the 1960's. If your serious about transfering to UF, then I would seriously get it</p>
<p>so there is a policy behind it?..and Im not to sure where I would fit the Speech Class. So as of now you don't think I have a solid chance of acceptance?</p>
<p>Brandon, How do all these classes you still have pending affect your actual application.
Exactly when is the UF transfer application due?
Will you have your 60 credits finished by application date?
If not, you may need to wait.</p>
<p>The application for transfer students I believe is due March 1, and admissions said as long as I have 60 credits completed by the end of summer I will be in good standings.</p>
<p>"So as of now you don't think I have a solid chance of acceptance?"</p>
<p>I honestly don't have a clue about how transfer admission works. Seems like this place is teaming with Santa Fe kids, perhaps you should ask them (they have perfected the art of backdooring into UF).</p>
<p>Your chances would actually be a lot better if you got your AA from a community college. Especially if that community college happened to be Sante Fe.</p>
<p>I don't think you will be looked at differently than those with 60 credits that were in college 1 more year than you. Their AA is the same as yours. GPA is the most important thing.</p>
<p>Yes, you should def. get your associates. Which might mean taking a stupid elective type science class. Check what is required for an AA at UCF.</p>
<p>There you go again SSobick, taking any chance you get to turn a question into a Santa Fe topic! This student isn't asking anything about Santa Fe, he is at UCF. Why can't you just be helpful or don't answer his call for help. Students are coming here looking for advice; how is this helpful to them? He has a 3.8 just like the kids coming from ANY CC who will get accepted by UF. As a matter of fact, 3.9 gpa's were denied this year. I don't see you talking about the athletes with the 800ish SATs and 2.5 gpa's. Are they "backdooring" also? How about the "CROP" students? All of these students will drag down your rankings while the transfer students stats won't ever be accounted for.</p>