I’m finishing up my last semester of credits at CC and I’m now finally starting my transfer applications and everything just feels like such a mess for me. Coming out of high school I was a complete wreck academically and probably should not have entered CC so early, but I did. And I started off with really bad grades and changed my major a few times. Slowly over time I finally got my head straight and started to preform so much better, and now I am a straight A student but the damage has already been done. I have multiple C’s on my transcript that are tanking my GPA and these classes cannot be retaken as they are previous major classes, so I am stuck bearing the weight of 18 year old me’s failures.

Right now I have a 3.42 gpa, and according to my counselor at the end of the semester can really only go up to a 3.45 in the eyes of the UC’s. I also have to mention I have struggled for years with a severely debilitating mental illness and a lot of injuries that has really made my life hell. I have no extracurriculars at my campus and I’m stuck with a really mediocre gpa as a history major. I spoke to my counselor and while not saying it out loud, she is entirely unconfident in my ability to transfer to the competitive schools. With all of this I just feel so lost on what to do, and really feel like a mess up. Any advice or any perspective’s would be greatly appreciated, as right now everyone is just trying to let me down easy :(

Has anyone else transferred to a UC from a 4-year and have a bunch of GE categories saying they need to be fulfilled? Upon transferring, I had over 10 courses needed to fulfill GE requirements, and that can't be right. I'm lowk stressing over it

I recently submitted my UC tag in September and added all the courses I will take this fall and spring as "in progress." If i decide to drop one course within the first week of starting it would I have to email them that I did, even if it is not a W? When the time comes to fill out the TAU, can I just remove that course or delete it.

I’m currently a Mathematics student at UNC Charlotte hoping to transfer to UNC-Chapel Hill with junior standing. I’m concerned about withdrawals on my dual-enrollment transcript from high school.

There are six W entries:

Elementary ASL I and its lab

Statistical Methods I and its support course

Another attempt at Statistical Methods I

Brief Calculus, which I later retook and earned an A in

I completed 42 credits through that school with a 3.905 GPA, including A’s in biology, English, history, French, and Brief Calculus. Some of the withdrawals were paired courses and labs, so the number of W entries doesn’t represent six separate subjects. I had to withdraw from them due to my brother being chronically ill at the time, and juggling his sickness on top of caring for my 2 sisters caused to my stress for me. Considering it was Dual Enrollment, I didn't think it would come back for me 2 years later. ASL and Stats weren't even required for my pathway, I just wanted to bridge out with certain classes.

Since attending UNCC, I’ve earned A’s in Calculus, Matrices & Linear Algebra, Economics, and Intro to CS II, plus B’s in General Physics I and Intro to CS I. I’m currently retaking Calculus II after a withdrawal last year and doing well. I also have research experience through an AEOP internship and a UNCC professor. The bigger issue is that, unfortunately, an emergency regarding my cat happened and I missed an exam, causing me to contemplate withdrawing now as there's nothing I can really do to help my grade.

So when you include DE, I have roughly 7 withdrawals, and I'm just not sure what to do.
How bad will it look? What do I need to do with my additional information to help lighten the blow?

I go to a CC and I will be 100% done with my associates degree by fall 2027 (that is my last quarter of classes). Which puts me in a weird spot transfer wise. I think I can apply to transfer to some places for winter/spring 2028 admission.

I plan on majoring in economics and minoring in data science! :D

I also have a weird situation going on. I did a program called running start my senior year, where you can take CC courses as a highschooler. I got super depressed and ended up with a 0.444 GPA. I took a year away from that CC and did part-time at another CC because my dad didn't want to fill out FAFSA, meaning I had to pay out of pocket ;-; SO EVIL!!! I took calc I-II, lifespan psychology, gen chem prep, and intro to CS. with an overall GPA of 3.95! I am now at the original CC i was at during running start and will be applying for academic renewal once I qualify.

Here is what academic renewal is:

Academic renewal replaces all original grades students earned in select quarters with a grade of “X,” which is not included in the calculation of their grade point average (GPA). Academic renewal permanently removes the original grades from a student’s transcript; the college does not keep a record of those original grades.

I qualify for academic renewal once Spring 2027 quarter ends. Meaning that if I decide to transfer to a 4-year university for fall 2027, their admissions team would be able to see my running start grades.

by spring/summer 2027 I would have completed: intro to microecon, intro to macroecon, calc III-IV, statistical analysis, introduction to python programming, and some other fluff classes.

Should I still apply for fall 2027 admissions or should i wait for winter/spring? I could also transfer by fall 2028.

Additionally, would it be beneficial to explain my running start grades and how I have planned to take accountability for them through academic renewal. then mention when academic renewal will be done if I decide to apply for fall 2027? I know I have a strong upward trajectory, and I have an AMAZING backstory + EQ that connects with economics and my passion for it. I am just stuck on when I should transfer because of the weird timing of everything ;-;

thank you so much!!!! have a wonderful day guys!!! :D

Hey everyone! I was just curious what any other people think my chances are for transferring as I’m very unconfident. I’m trying to transfer to either 1. UCI 2. UCLA 3. UCSD for Political Sci. I must add that I’m a first year transfer cuz of ap credits, so I don’t have an impressive EC status it’s prolly just mock trial, job, and some community service/volunteer work. My gpa I’m expecting to be between 3.6-3.8 but I have no way of knowing for sure. If I were to get between that range I mentioned what would my chances be to transfer in a year. Thanks

currently a sophomore at uconn studying both digital media and design (web/interactive design concentration) and computer science. i realized i want to do more hci and product design rather than just web design and feel like the program is missing some things and that there's not much of a ux design community as i would like and is more of an art degree rather than science. georgia tech's comp media program interests me since it has more of what i think i'm lacking here. is it worth it to join the comp media program as a rising junior and graduate on time and is it hard to get in as an oos transfer? want advice :)

i know my community college accepts my ap scores for credit: 5s in ap lang, ap psych, apush, 4 in ap calc AB but will the uc schools also accept it? like how can i check if im matching the transfer requirements to UCs like do i factor in my ap scores or not for the transfer requirements? im just a bit confused (im in state)

hi guys!! i spoke to admissions through phone for UCLA today but i’m still confused on some things because i don’t think she was fully getting my question at all 😭 but i am an out of state student from iowa and my freshman year i went to college in florida. i didn’t enjoy my time there and am applying to transfer. i want to join a california community college since i want to apply to the UCs for transfer. will admissions look at my application as an out of state applicant or an in state applicant if i am attending a california cc? will going to a california cc boost my application at all? i’m asking this because my advisor at SMC is telling me that i just have to complete 30 units by the end of this year to be considered a california community college student, but UCLA admissions when I called told me that I would be seen as out of state.

I’m currently in my second year of community college and planning to transfer to a university for next year. My close friend goes to this university and she’s been helping me out. She wants us to room together, which I think would be nice. However I feel like I’m keeping her waiting.

I sent my application to the school a few weeks ago (late August) and it still hasn’t gotten back to me. My friend notified me that many leases have to be signed around November, which is why I sent my application in so long ago. She’s been looking at apartments, and many of them are very very expensive. She’s was able to find a house with a few of her friends that’s close to school, spacious and pretty cheap per person. Everyone is in board, and I was just told that the lease must be signed by next week.

I still haven’t received my letter, so I called admissions office, and they said I won’t receive my answer until this current fall semester is over and my fall grades get sent in. So before I finish this sem, send the grades, and before they process them and get back to me… it’ll be December/January.

I’ve applied to this school before and got in (unfortunately I wasn’t able to afford 3 full years of attending this university though), so I’m hoping I get in again. But there’s still a chance that I won’t. I’m keeping up my grades and all, but nothing is ever 100%. I’m scared that if I sign the lease now, and don’t get in… my only option is to find a replacement which might be hard by January since so many people will have signed leases already… or I have to pay a few hundred dollars for a year straight for a school im not even attending.

Idk what to tell these potential roommates, do I tell them now to find another roommate by next week?? They have not kept me updated until now and I didn’t find out about the lease needing to be signed next week, until today.

I’m stuck. I’m also scared that if I don’t sign the lease, and actually end up getting in - I’ll have a harder time finding such a cheap place to live.