College Admissions

Admissions Criteria

100

This is the cumulative average of the final grades in all of your courses.

What is a grade point average (GPA)?

200

These are Activities pursued outside of your academic courses that colleges like to see.

What are extracurricular activities?

300

This varies from 2.4-3.0 depending on the specific UC campus

What is the minimum GPA to be eligible to apply to the University of California as a transfer?

400

It is important to cultivate positive relationships with your teachers because you might need them to support your application with one of these.

What are letters of recommendation?

500

This is a component of UC Applications that essentially serves as an interview.

What is a PIQ?

College Tools

100

This is an online California Public College/University platform designed to help you see what courses transfer.

What is Assist?

200

This is a website designed by a COM student to help plan your transfer.

What is planmytransfer?

300

An organized event where many admissions representatives gather to advertise and recruit for the colleges/universities?

What is a college fair?

400

This application is required in order to receive any sort of financial assistance

What is the FAFSA?

500

This is the group here to support you throughout the transfer process

What is transfer club?

College Prep

100

Beyond the grades or withdrawals on paper, colleges look for this while reviewing your transcript.

What are trends and rigor and major prep?

200

This is an activity where you volunteer your time to give back and to help others.

What is community service?

300

Successful completion of these courses and a strong score on an exam may allow a student to receive college credits.

What are Advance Placement (AP) courses?

400

The attainment of positions within extracurricular activities demonstrates this positive attribute.

What is leadership?

500

Great extracurriculars that people don't think count as extracurriculars.

What are employment and taking care of family members?

College App Pitfalls

100

Colleges can search and access these to find out potentially negative personal information about applicants.

What is social media (facebook, twitter, instagram, blogs, etc...).

200

[e-mail] and [e-mail] are examples of this.

What are inappropriate e-mail addresses used to communicate with colleges?

300

These dates must be met in order to be considered for admission.

What are deadlines?

400

Failyoure to due this with your aplicatoin and persinul statement is a shure fire way to move your application to the denyed pile.

What is proofread?

500

The attempt to use someone else's work or idea as your own.

What is plagiarism?

Mixed Questions (True or False)

100

Is a hotdog a sandwich?

True

200

USC, UCSC, doesn't matter--it's the same school

no

300

If you have not seen the college bumpersticker in your town, it couldn't possibly be a good school.

False

400

Legacy slightly improves your chances of admissions at some UC's.

False

500

If you are not satisfied with your performance up until today, you still have time to turn it around.

Not if you are transferring this fall