<p>I am a 20 yr old. whose currently in his second year of community college. I do not want to stay at a community college, I'd like to transfer to Pepperdine, Columbia, or NYU. My major is communications, specifically broadcast journalism. Here's a brief rundown on my academic history:</p>
<p>High School
Let's just say I was a horrible student in high school who barely graduated. I'm pretty sure I didn't take the SATs or the ACTs.</p>
<p>Community College</p>
<h2>Currently my GPA is a 3.0, but I'm hoping to increase my GPA level with the upcoming Winter, Spring, and Summer sessions before applying for Spring Admission to these schools. I know I need up to 24 transfer units and I'm sure I'll have them before admission. As for extra curricular activities, I'm currently doing a full time radio show on my college's radio station. </h2>
<p>I guess the question I have here is that is there anything else I can do to better my chances of getting into one of these schools? Advice of any and all kinds is welcome, I've been lost for awhile and I really want to go to one of these schools, it doesn't even matter which one.</p>
<p>I am not familiar with any of the schools you listed so my best bet will be to ask your school counselor about this.The best way to know your probability in getting into any of these schools is to contact directly to these schools.Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Well Pepperdine possibly, they aren’t as strict in GPA as the other schools, but unless you have some amazing EC’s, a big check ready to “donate”, or a miracle to bump your GPA up you have no chance in hell at NYU or Columbia. I’m sorry, those are top 10 schools, and you are out-of-state. Also, I don’t know why you are posting on the “UC Transfer Board”. Of course, call the individual school’s to get completely correct answers but at least do research on admission rates to compare yourself properly, and at least post in the boards for each school you are referring too.</p>
<p>Ivy league transfer is near to impossible even with a great gpa. Applicants need something that separates them from other individuals. As for NYU and Pepperdine, I’m not familiar with there transfer records, but both are great private schools so its safe to assume a decent gpa is necessary to get in. I guess you can try to get Straight As for the rest of your semesters and take up more ECs to beef up your application.</p>
<p>Nearly impossible to get into Columbia + ivy leagues if your high school gpa was horrible. They check your high school transcripts, SAT/ACT, and your community college grades. Aim for NYU/UC’s and shoot for those schools as grad if you’re planning to go to grad school.</p>
<p>Columbia has a very transfer friendly program at Columbia GS. You cannot go to regular Columbia unless you go right out of High School.</p>
<p>You can however take classes with regular Columbia students if you attend GS. You graduate from Columbia just as anyone else. It is expensive as **** though.</p>
<p>yeah but to qualify for columbia GS you need to be a non-traditional student. If you really want to go to columbia, I would suggest you going to the military or drop out of school for employment or something like that.</p>
<p>The UCs and CSUs are required by the state to structure their admissions policies so that they will have student body ratios of 60% upperclassmen and 40% lowerclassmen. This is done to accomodate the large number of CCC students who plan to transfer to a four year school for their junior year. Private colleges and universities are not subject to this requirement and the selective ones have very limited spots for transfer students since they accept very few students who can not do college level work and drop out during their first two years. You would need extremely strong academic credentials to be considered for one of the few transfer openings at one of these schools and a 3.0 CCC GPA is not likely to be competititve.</p>