<p>Students that have a choice about what CC to attend might want to read a recent article in the LA Times.
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In a plan released Wednesday, a UC task force proposed improving counseling programs at community colleges across the state, making the transfer application process easier and removing roadblocks students face in determining which courses are required for UC admission.</p>
<p>Officials said they want to give special attention to 30 community colleges that traditionally send few students to UC campuses, focusing mainly on those in the far northern parts of California, the Central Valley and the Inland Empire.</p>
<p>The numbers are so lopsided that just 19 colleges sent half of all the 13,999 community college transfers to UC campuses last year and 93 other schools made up the other half, the UC study said.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-transfers-20140515-story.html%5B/quote%5D">http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-uc-transfers-20140515-story.html
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<p>Santa Monica College, De Anza College, etc…I’m looking at you guys…sending so many damn transfers to these schools and all…</p>
<p>Eh, I think the article is misleading. SMC has 30,000 students, De Anza has 22,000 students, PCC has 26,000. Feather River only has 1,500 students. It doesn’t make much sense to compare the raw numbers of transfer students without taking the size of the school into account, since the list in the article is basically ranking CCs by how many students attend.</p>
<p>^I agree.</p>
<p>I would be curious to see the numbers for how many applied vs how many got in to a UC, not to mention the number of people who just take classes for fun, for post-bac reasons or who decide to go to a CSU. The author did touch on the fact that not everyone goes to a CC with the goal of trasfering to a UC.</p>
<p>Also, could it be a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy? Students who want to transfer go to schools with good transfer records, most transfer and keep the record going, etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, but what cc’s produced the most admissions at the TOP UC’s- that’s what I want to know. </p>
<p>The article touched on the point that not every student is able to relocate in order to attend a UC. CSUs ate much more geographically dispersed so people have more options. Also UCs are not really friendly toward students who can’t go part time or who need to go at night. CSUs are more flexible.</p>
<p>I am lucky that I was accepted to UCLA which is 25 mins from my house. If I had been rejected by UCLA, I would have been at a CSU because no other UC worked for me geographically. </p>
<p>There are so many reasons people choose their school besides UC vs CSU.</p>
<p>@2016candles i agree. I know too many students who dont apply to UCs because they bekieve they cost too much. Yet they qaulify for pell grant and cal grants and have no idea that financial aid can add up to make the UCs as affordable as a Cal State. Well if you dont have to move that is. </p>
<p>From all the students ive met at Elac only 5 applied to UCs and they all got in. The rest think UCs cost to much and dont even bother they just go to CSULA because its cheap and they dont have to relocate</p>
<p>My financial aid at the CSUs sucked! I only got offered loans because my EFC is too high. Thanks to the Blue and Gold, my tuition and fees are completely covered. </p>
<p>@2016Candles exactly my situation, I got offered nothing but loans and yet at every UC I got at least tution covered. But most student at my school dont know this, in fact i know students at long beach city and cerritos college who dont know this, and who also skiped applying to UCs because they thought tuituion was too expensive. </p>
<p>I think some CCCs need to do a better job of advising students about both how to academically transfer, but also helping to educate themselves about how to pay for it. I did my own extensive research on all of this, but I’m a grown woman who thinks that way. The average 20 year old just doesn’t think that way, and there is very little guidance being offered, </p>
<p>@sonic23 I applied at CSULA because they have an incredible Criminal Justice program, however, my award letter from them was awful. They only offered me the pell grant and the subsidized loan. While UCI offered me a better award letter even though I have to move out there. There is a mind set from many cc students that think UCs are more expensive but not many realize that they definitely make it up with financial aide awards. :)</p>
<p>My college (Los Angeles Mission College) is a pipeline to California State University Northridge (CSUN) and not too many of us transfer to UC’s. Part of the reason is that colleges such as SMC work very hard to build relationships with UCLA while smaller community colleges prioritize local cal states. In the end it leads to self-selection, where the brightest students seek colleges that have the best transfer rates. </p>
<p>I wish there was a way to give incentives for bright CC students to remain at their local CC’s.</p>