I went to community college and I was in the same boat as you. I took around 18 units a semester and worked around 15 hours a week. The Universities will definitely consider the amount of time you worked while attending community college (I’m pretty sure each application asks how much time you worked). What is most important in transferring is the classes you took and your GPA. Also, I would spend sometime working on a good personal statement. It does not hurt to be involved in extracurricular activities but they are not the number one criteria that school’s look at, and they will only consider them if you are on the bubble. There should be some clubs that you can join that require minimal time, but would look good on a resume (I know it is sad to do things just for your resume). This advice is coming from someone who transferred to a UC school in CA, so maybe some states are different.

It will, they look for job history too along with grades. The credits will most likely transfer especially if they are English 101, English 102, Pre-Calculus, Calculus, etc, but you might have to make up some courses that you might not get credit for, and also there could be extra classes that that school requires you to take for your particular major…For furture semesters, I’d suggest that there might be a section on your application that asks what you want to do as an extracurricular, if not just write in the essay about your situation, or sometimes they have a section with other information which you could write that in. But also, look at what else you do that may be considered an extracurricular, or activity…let’s say you are involved with your church, or you help out with your brother’s baseball team, or you volunteer at the library, things like that also stand out. In terms of the job, if you got promoted, that looks good too, or if you are a team leader, etc…

If you are working and taking a lot of classes (and getting good grades) they will definitely take that into account. They do that especially for community college students, because they know that in many cases, the people who go to community colleges first do so to raise or save money for a 4 year college.

If you can try to do some extra curricular stuff, like volunteer. If you need to work though, do it. They will notice that.

If possible, try working somewhere (or get an internship) in a field that is related to what you want to do.

Ex: If you want to work in a health or medicine related field, you can work or volunteer at a hospital (in a lab, in billing, in whatever).

I transferred from a community college to a private (and expensive) college, and the fact that I had no extra-curricular activities didn’t affect me at all. They just want your money. They’ll look at your grades in community college. That’s about it. 🙂

college involvement, credits that will transfer, GPA and standings in class is what most colleges look at.

I have never heard of them looking at your social life.

colleges and universities look at all your semester grades. They dont look at each grade individually, they merely look at your semester grades.