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Handling College Rejection

I felt it was appropriate to start off with my time in high school. It's no surprise that high school students have it rough with every passing year. College admissions are getting harder to get into, expectations for test scores and GPA are higher, and many have to consider applying to backup colleges.

Planning your Backup College in Advance

There are many ways that a high school student can earn college credit in advance such as the AP exams, IB tests, distance learning, etc. However, how many students actually carefully consider which exams to take? How many actually consider taking some to meet transfer requirements or prerequisites for college courses?

Building your Transfer Schedule

I decided to attend my backup college, UGA, with the plan to transfer out in 1-1.5 years. One main reason I chose UGA over GSU or other colleges was that it had a healthy pool of transferable credits. Some of you might be familiar with GT's Transfer Pathway Programs or Conditional Acceptance if you've had a family member attend GT in the past.

Handling Transfer Rejection

Now, say you worked hard to build your transfer schedule, applied to transfer to GT after one year, and got rejected again, what now? Your greatest fear is that some of the courses you took might not even count for your backup college since it wasn't part of their curriculum.

Heading to a New Campus

Third times the charm right 😃? I got accepted into the GT Spring 2017 transfer class as a CM major! When I opened the letter in November, I was so thrilled that all my hard efforts had finally paid off.

Landing my First (& Second) Internship!

By the time junior year rolled around, I had slightly recovered my GPA, had some undergraduate research under my belt through the GT VIP Program, and had presentable class projects on my GitHub. I switched my major from CM back to CS after the one semester restriction, because I really liked two specific CS threads: People and Media.

Gaining Real Work Experience

When I started my first two internships, I was honestly pretty lost. Coding on the job, even as an intern, is vastly different than coding for school projects. Prepare to actually practice concepts instead of memorizing. If I were to list out the important differences, it would be: