I am currently sophomore, who have completed 29 hours of credit in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Psychology Major but wanted to transfer right away, so only took general classes). I hated everything about the school (specially weather), and my family moved to Texas. I was hoping to transfer into Mccomb this spring, but figured they only take students over Fall semester. However one of the counselor told me interesting facts, as Mccomb is hard to transfer, she recommended me to transfer as a COLA first over at spring and than go for internal transfer. However, internal transfer takes 24 credits inside UT, which will take over a year, coming back to spring again, I have to wait another semester just to get into Business program again. So I will be in business program Fall of 2017, if I internally transfer.
I have 3.7 GPA from UIUC ( higher school ranking than UT Austin), and taking 3 classes at nearby community college. Is it wise for me to transfer this spring as COLA and than internal transfer for Mccomb, or is it better to stay at community college and apply for next fall as business ? The funny thing is one of the counselor at Houston community college told me that with 3.5 gpa in HCC will easily make entrance to UT austin. Is this true ? and what are my chances of getting into Mccomb if I apply for next fall as Mccomb ? what kind of total GPA (UIUC GPA + CC GPA) to get into Mccomb 2016 FALL ?
if you transfer into cola, you would then be an internal transfer student. Internal transfer students must have 26 hours of credit to apply and the average GPA of approved transfers is close to 3.9 (their UT GPA).
Students with more than 90 hours (which you will presumably be since you already have 29, will earn more this semester and then 26 at UT) are encouraged to consider other options.
Numbers aren’t yet out for fall 2015, but for fall 2014 UT Austin’s average transfer admission GPA was 3.68 overall. The average GPA specifically for Business was 3.89 and for Liberal Arts was 3.67. Tell your HCC advisor that, at least for UT Austin, a 3.50 GPA is borderline.
I don’t even know if you’re still active in this forum, but my situation and yours is literally SO SIMILAR. I moved to Texas from Canada when college started for me in Fall 2014. Went to Houston Community College for a year hoping to transfer to McCombs at UT Fall 2015. Had a 3.9 GPA and 30 hours. But my HCC advisor didn’t advise me well and turned out 1 of my courses weren’t transferable to UT, so I had to stay behind at HCC for another semester to complete 1 more class and get a total of 30 transferable credits; and then I was then in the SAME POSITION as you. I ended up transferring to UT COLA for Spring 2015, now I’ve completed my 26 hours in residence, spent 1.5 years at UT, and now I’m finally able to apply for McCombs for Fall 2017.
But yeah externally transferring to COLA is easier than externally transferring to McCombs. A 3.5 usually gets people into COLA, whereas for McCombs a 3.8 is needed to be competitive.
INTERNALLY transferring to McCombs is easier. Last year’s cut off was 3.65.