Had a 29 on my ACT and 3.5 GPA in high school.
Just started my 2nd semester and have a 3.9 GPA.
I go to a CC in Wyoming and am considering transferring to an out of state college.
Are there any schools that have a reputation for transferring a lot of of CC students?
Not wishing to derail your question….but I have a few.
Have you talked to the transfer advisor at your community college?
Why out of state?
Can you afford the costs of an OOS public or private school? I ask this because financial aid for transfer students is often less than for incoming freshmen.
In my opinion, you need to consider also which and how many of your community college courses an out of state school will accept to fulfill degree requirements.
Hi! What are you planning to major in? What is your budget? Do any of the schools of the WUE (Western Undergraduate Exchange) interest you? That would bring tuition way dowm, and I think they take CC transfers.
By the way, congrats on your excellent record!
The transfer advisor at your community college should be able to tell you which four year colleges the CC has articulation agreements with. When a CC has an articulation agreement with a four year school, this can mean lots of things. Maybe auto acceptance, maybe they will take all of your CC earned credits. This is worth exploring.
Congratulations on your strong first semester at community college. If you can keep up your 3.9 GPA it will help you quite a bit when it is time to transfer.
The University of Wyoming is the first university that comes to mind.
Wyoming is a WUE state. Therefore the various WUE universities also come to mind. Washington State University and Colorado State University are examples. However, you have to look at which specific WUE universities have your major and which will offer a WUE discount for your major.
The transfer advisor at your community college should be able to help you quite a bit.
As @thumper1 has pointed out, you need to consider your budget, and need to consider which schools will accept your transfer credits. Staying in-state will often make it more likely that your credits will be accepted by whatever university you transfer to.
in terms of “top 50”, I would not get too hung up on overall rankings. To give some examples, someone I know very well got their bachelor’s degree at a university that is not quite in the top 100 in the USA, and then got their master’s degree at an Ivy League university. Someone else I know very well got their bachelor’s degree at a university that is overall not quite in the top 100 in the USA (but is just barely top 50 for their major), and is currently getting a DVM at a university that is in the top 5 DVM programs in the USA (and was accepted to four DVM programs, including two that are in the top 10 in the USA). I got my master’s at a “top 3” university, in a program where many of the other students in the same program had gotten their bachelor’s degree from universities that were not in the top 50. You can get a very good education at a very wide range of universities. Any academic difference between universities becomes more important for graduate school, and tends to be very program specific. A university that is superb for one major might be mediocre for a different major.
The overall ranking of a university can be very, very different from the ranking of a specific program in that university. The most extreme example of this that I can think of off the top of my head is Colorado State, which is ranked somewhere around about 150 by US News, but that has a superb DVM program that is ranked 3rd in the US and 4th in the world.
In many cases the top ranked private universities accept very few transfer students. The top ranked public universities can be expensive for out of state students, and sometimes accept more transfer students from in-state community colleges. Your budget will matter quite a bit if you want to go to a highly ranked out of state university. Larger universities sometimes accept more transfer students.
X2 talk to your transfer advisor. Most Community colleges have direct relationships with specific universities.
Depending on what you did in HS, many of the top 50 may be a reach for you. Transfers into top schools from a CC, especially the top 20 or so, often would have been competitive for admission out of HS but had various reasons for starting at a CC. They had strong ECs, grades, and test scores. HS grades may no longer matter when you transfer as a junior but ECs and test scores may.
There is no harm in trying, but be sure to identify a range of colleges to apply to (reach, match, safety) so that you aren’t putting all of your eggs into a single top-50 basket.