<p>Hi I am about to graduate high school, and money is pretty tight right now so I am going to go to community college and then transfer. But I had a few questions. When I sent in my application to the CC, it asked why I was attending. I didn't know whether to put for a 2 year degree or put to transfer to a university. So I put transfer to a university. Now, I took a lot of AP classes and looking at the credits the CC would give me, I would have about 30 credits(again, depends on whether they will take all of them). Would it be better to get my associates and then transfer, or transfer as soon as I could? What can I do to improve my chances and what GPA should I aim for? If it helps I am looking to get into the College of Liberal Arts and major in International Relations.</p>
<p>@Ranger,
From what I have been told, it really is not important to UT admissions if you have an associates or not when you transfer. As long as you have at least 30hrs of transferable credit, you should be good to go. If you are trying to save money and have no problem staying at a CC for a year or more, do it. Take as many core clasess as you can at your CC. It will save you money and also be a GPA boost since classes at CCs are usually easy, but that decision is totally up to you. </p>
<p>If you are planning to transfer to COLA, I’d shoot for at least a 3.5 gpa. 3.5 seems to be the golden number for a lot of people transferring to COLA. I’d also start planning for any clubs, recommendation letters from professors, jobs and etc. to give you a great shot of getting in your first try. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Thank you for the information! I wouldn’t mind spending a year at community college, that’s what I had planned to do in the first place. So if I get my AP credits, plus the credits for the one year at CC, would I go into UT as a junior? According to the amount of credits I would have?</p>
<p>You have to check AP policy of your local CC.
All CCs in our area will give you limited number of AP credits depending on the number of actual credit hours you took at CC.</p>