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Hi all, I am currently debating on whether I should go to ECSU or UCONN. I grew up in FL (but am a CT resident now) so I don't know a whole lot about which degree is more valued. I am a non-traditional math/statistics major (24 with a 1yo daughter). I am at the point at Three Rivers where I need to choose which school I am going to apply to transfer to because they have different general ed reqs. Basically, which will get me the best chance to get into grad school? Will it really make a difference between the two schools? It's looking like my husband may be transferred to Washington state right after I graduate, which would put me near one of the best biostatistics programs in the nation. I want to choose the school that will best position me for acceptance.
I am, however, worried about initial admittance to UCONN. I've already been accepted at ECSU. My GPA is not the best currently due to academic indiscretions as a freshman teenager. Is it competitive to get into UCONN as a transfer student?
Daughter and son-in-law graduated from UCONN(math majors, goal of teaching secondary school math) (attended comm college 2 years, then UCONN branch 2 years) and both were accepted into a 1 year grad program at UCONN. Both did this in their thirties---non-traditional students. Yes it's very competitive and selective-----and a very employable degree. Daughter was hired immediately, sil graduated in May, doing interviews now. Granddaughter's boyfriend just got AS from comm college, will be at UCONN in Storrs in the school of business this fall. All A's, all of them, all the way through.The only info I have about ECSC , from a few years back, is about their molecular biology degree: Yale likes them for their grad program. Apply, what have you got to lose?
Thanks for the responses. I scheduled a tour of UCONN on Momday. Hopefully they can give me a better idea on if I stand a chance at admittance. Fingers crossed!
I do a lot of college/career counseling to FFC teens. Because of where they are, it's usually a choice of WCSU or SCSU vs. UConn, but basically all 4 (Western, Southern, Central, and Eastern) are pretty much the same, it's just that geographically I only hear about Eastern when a student doesn't have the grades for Storrs but wants to go away for school and is set on a State school (though more often they opt for CCSU in that instance).
If you can get in, UConn is definitely the choice. If you can't, it * MAY * be possible to transfer from ECSU if you have top notch grades there. I counseled someone who is going to Western next year because of grades (she came to this country legally in 8th grade and if they only looked at her last 2 years of high school and SATs she'd have probably got into UConn but her first 2 years, partially due to language/adjustment issues hurt her) and she is trying that route, her goal is to transfer to UConn in 2 years, but I think she may be able to do it after 1 if she does well.
UConn (and state schools in general, but especially UConn vs. the 4 "regional" state schools) is much harder to get into than it used to be (say when I was going to college about a quarter century ago) because the economy and the fact that college costs have gone up faster than inflation means many people who would've never considered a state school now do, at least as a "safety" or for financial reasons (i.e. a "top of the class" HS student who would've virtually never considered UConn and would've gunned for a partial scholarship at an Ivy (or equivalent, like Purdue, Duke or Stanford) or even an "Ivy lite" out-of-state state school like U Michigan or Cal-Berkeley)).
Thank you 7wishes. I think I'm going to end up taking the classes I would need in hopes of getting into UCONN, and keep ECSU as a back-up. If I don't end up getting in, I can always apply again for the next semester. The first semester of junior year classes at ECSU and UCONN are the same, so I hope it will work out.
If you can get in, UConn for sure. Lots of bright, high achieving kids looking for value for their tuition dollar going there. The kids who go to the state colleges are very average students. Nice, but not the best and the brightest.
I talked to the counselor at Three Rivers today and she thinks I have a good chance of getting into UCONN, especially since I will have already completed my AA. Wish me luck
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