<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I'm about to be a sophomore at a CC in Mississippi, and I recently changed my major to Computer Science. One of my main goals in to leave Mississippi but I'm afraid many schools won't admit me due to my academic history. Due to a lot of coming from a low income home with my single parent mother since the fourth grade and having to take care of my brothers and our home a lot, my grades in HS and even college suffered. On top of that, my father caused a lot of problems due to his alcohol addiction. I also was sick for months during most of my junior year, and failed Alg 2, Chem, and AP US His. I retook them all and did my better but my gpa still sucked.</p>
<p>I thought college would be much better but things got bad again and had about all A's first semester with a D in College Alg (retaking right now) and second semester was even more rough and I made almost straight B's with a D in an online Bio class (also retaking now).</p>
<p>I have an overall 23 ACT, but I positive I can do better and I am taking it along with the SAT and SAT subject tests this fall. Studying all summer. Also, I'm actually quite good with math and bio, but the focus wasn't there due a great amount of stress from my family. I am sure it's basically impossible but I'm going to apply for top schools and hope my situation can somehow give me a chance to do better, and get away from everything.</p>
<p>Due I have any change to transfer to a good school ?
I have plenty of ECs, I'm a fantastic essay writer, and I am capable of doing better.</p>
<p>Also, I am apply locally and to schools I will definitely get in, but I just want to try at others.</p>
<p>I live in California and I know people who have gotten into UCSB, UCI, UCD, UCSC with around a 3.3 gpa, and those are all good schools. So I definitely think you can transfer to a good school.</p>
<p>First off, please excuse the typos in previous posts by me.</p>
<p>Is it worth applying to big name schools?</p>
<p>I believe that you can apply and get into big name schools. A 3.3 GPA isn’t bad in my opinion. I’ll never understand why people constantly bash themselves when they get a 3.0-3.6 GPA… Those GPAs are AWESOME! Anyway if you’re looking to apply to UCs in California I think you have a shot. If your essay is good and you have a lot of pre-reqs I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to get in. Your ACT scores are pretty good also! I honestly don’t think you need to retake that, but if you feel like you want to then go ahead!</p>
<p>I don’t know how it is in Mississippi but in California if you have a 3.0 or something like that and if you live in a service area then you can pretty much get into any state college. Is Mississippi like that at all?</p>
<p>Not that I know of. I wasn’t aware other states did that.</p>
<p>No Mississippi school is particularly competitive for transfers. Both MSU and UM [only require a 2.0](<a href=“http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/transfer/requirements.php#requirements”>http://www.admissions.msstate.edu/transfer/requirements.php#requirements</a>) and 30 hours of college credit for admission. </p>
<p>OP, are you sure you’ll be able to handle computer science especially after you earned a D in college algebra? According to Mississippi State University’s description of the [url=<a href=“http://math.msstate.edu/courses/descrip/index.php]course[/url”>http://math.msstate.edu/courses/descrip/index.php]course[/url</a>] it appears as though it’s basically high school level math. The math classes you’ll have to take as a computer science major will be far more demanding than any topic you covered in college algebra.</p>