I hate colleges now

[Ice_Tyrant]

Boycotting college or only going to an open university is horrible advice. You aren't paying for access to the knowledge, you're paying for networking and credentialing, both of which can't be replaced.

Oh my god going off the college was a huge mistake for me. lol. I'm at WKU right now, I transferred from a community college, but now I am thinking about maybe transferring to UK because they have a major that WKU lacks that I want to go for. Or If I don't go to UK and get a Chinese Language and Literature major, I'll probably just stick with the Asian Religions and Cultures Major... Here I've been kinda hoping to get a job maybe translating Chinese some day, and maybe a future could see my ARC major and think "Oh, yea I guess that kinda fits." if I applied for some job involving translation.

I feel like I'm probably goign to end up going back home after college at Western and maybe try to go back to the community college and try to get a degree for some other thing like, I dunno, air conditioner management or something. My future is not going down a road I"m trying to stay on, but me nervously trying to navigate a sea and hope I find land, lol.

 

[Joecoolyo]

So then it's common knowledge that transfering is easy then? Hmm I had just never heard that but ok I'll admit I don't know any better.

As for your major - it depends. Is the job you could get with your current major going to make you happy? Is it what you want to do? Does it pay enough that you won't be crushed by the additional debt? You have to consider those things carefully to see if it is worth it. I wouldn't just go to a school that doesn't have my desired major just because it's a better school or because I always dreamed of going there.

I wouldn't say its easy, but its always an option, and as long as you get good grades it shouldn't be too difficult.

And yeah, I have no idea where or what to do with my major I'm looking at (International Relations). So I have no clue if any sort of job attached to it will pay well and allow me to put down the massive amount of debt I'm going to amass attaining it.

 

[Disgustipated]

I applied for a college where the average GPA admitted was a 3.9 and the high-range admitted SAT score was a 2100.

I have a 4.3 and a 2200, so I felt pretty confident, especially since I did a sport, 3 clubs, extra community service, and acted as an official student leader/ambassador on several occasions.

Nope. Denied.

I want to cuss on here but know I can't. Beyond that I don't know what to do right now. It wasn't my only application of course, but it was my #1. Screw that.

/rant

You got passed over for a less qualified minority. Get used to it.

 

[Zelig]

If I worked in admissions I would automatically penalize people who provided their GPA on a scale of anything other than 4.0

 

[Kennigit]

want to reiterate that it sounds like the OP got short handed, but there may be some factors that aren't self reported. For instance, sometimes people, despite having a 2300 or 2400 SAT score, apply at the very last second and "skip" some of the "nonrequired but encouraged" things, such as some essays or particularly plenty of the ivy league/private schools/MIT schedule interviews that aren't required but encouraged. So all the time white and asian students with 2300-2400 SAT scores get rejected from top schools (and often they even did the interviews)

*snip*

if it is the berkeley/ucal system, I do know that at least berkeley did admissions by major. So overall admittance statistics (eg 2100 SAT or "3.9" gpa*) do not reflect an individual program's admittance, as for instance the uc berkeley engineering programs will have higher scoring students apply than other berkeley programs.

*gpa gets reported really badly because it isn't the same system everywhere, see below

If I worked in admissions I would automatically penalize people who provided their GPA on a scale of anything other than 4.0

that'd be dumb because you report whatever your state/county/school does. You don't penalise people for reporting what they are graded on, especially since they just take their gpa off their transcript.

what other universities should do (as Georgia Tech does), is make you report whatever grade you got into [Georgia Tech's or the university's] scale so that everyone is on the same scale.

My high school had 98-100 A+, 93-98 A, 90-92 B+, B, etc (4.3 scale for A+), then like changed the scale (I think) to have A+, A, A-, B+, B, etc, then also changed weighting of AP courses and "honor" courses my senior year (honor courses were unweighted, and AP courses were +.7 and changed to AP +1 and honor + 0.5 or some junk I think). So you had not only the scale change but also the weighting of things change, I think

All that crap gets eliminated when Georgia Tech (or whatever institution) asks to report on 90-100 A, 80-90 B, etc scale with AP courses +0.5 I think. Take whatever grade you got and report it on their scale.