I really want to get transfer to UCI as a film major (don’t ask why) but I want to make sure I have the qualifications to get in. I got a crappy gpa right now but I’m gonna get straight A’s this semester. I don’t have the grades to TAG for autumn 2017.
GPA: 3.11
SAT: 1920
EC:-church youth group catechist (Sunday school teacher) for 4 years
-secretary at my cc’s International Student’s club
-part of the Multimedia club at my cc
-Went on a mission trip through the St. Columban Youth Charity Foundation to New Orleans in 2012 to rebuild homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina
-Hapkido practitioner for 3 years
-church basketball team member
-singer for the praise band at another church (it’s Presbyterian and I go to a Catholic church) for 4 years
-played piano for 7 years
-owner of a small clothing line (sole proprietorship)
-backpacked through France, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Croatia, Hungary (almost died there), Germany, Belgium, and the airport of Moscow for almost 8 months
-lived in/volunteered at the international monastery, Taize, in Southern France for 3 months
I was going to write my personal on how racism at school and my (formerly) unstable mother attempting to commit suicide pushed me into depression and made me suicidal until the end of high school. Builds up to how a journey through Europe helped me find passion in life again. Of course the real thing will be in more detail.
Does UCI care about the SAT scores of transfer students? Will the school put more consideration into my application if I show a lot of improvement during this fall and spring semester at my cc?