<p>I was admitted for EE. I want to go to UCLA SOOOOO badly, but I am not sure that I could realistically finish in 2 years, but I think that I could finish in 2 years if I went to Berkeley.</p>
<p>Whom do I call/email? Admissions? Engineering?</p>
<p>I want to finish in 2 years because:
1) I want to get a job sooner
2) Blue and Gold only lasts for 2 years. Without Blue and Gold, I am screwed!</p>
<p>EE has a laundry list of demanding courses to complete. There’s an extremely low likelihood someone can finish any EE program in two years, although I’m not saying it’s impossible. Three sounds more feasible. Call the engineering office of academic and student affairs at UCLA to make a phone appt via a counselor if you want to discuss this.</p>
<p>Graduating in 2 years doesn’t guarantee you will get a job sooner. Engineers typically should season themselves in a specialization to be a more desirable engineer for industry. This can be done through projects and such.</p>
<p>I’m sure you can find other sources of scholarships or funding (loans) to fund at least one more year for yourself.</p>
<p>I don’t think this is even possible anymore. Every quarter there will be classes that you won’t be able to enroll due to cutbacks. It’s pretty sad but it’s getting more and more difficult enrolling in classes.</p>
<p>My CS 143 class had 30 OVERfilled students looking to enroll. Professor was nice and enrolled 12 of them.</p>
<p>If you’re instate, one year will cost probably 12,000$. If you start now, it shouldn’t be hard to save up that money in two years, which gives you another year.</p>
<p>Just to give you an example, friend works front desk at the dorms. Usually works night time shift, but he gets lots of homework done. 32 hours a week. Adds up son.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I really don’t like the Berkeley environment nearly as much as UCLA, but I think that finishing there would be possible. My junior college is on a semester system, so my classes match up better with Cal’s classes since they’re also on a semester system. Because of this, I can articulate credit for a lot more classes at Cal. At the most, it would take me 2 years and a semester. But I would really, really like to go to UCLA. I’ve got a month to decide!</p>
<p>Also, for every extra year that I spend in school, not only am I spending an extra $30,000 when all is said and done, but I am also NOT getting paid to work. Perhaps I am only being na</p>
<p>Wacker1990,</p>
<p>It totally slipped my mind that you are a transfer student. As long as you have all the lower division pre-requisites for UCLA EE (physics, math, and EE intro courses), you can totally finish in 2 years. If it takes you any longer, you can take summer courses or it will only take you one extra quarter. </p>
<p>Check this out: [B.S</a>. in Electrical Engineering Curriculum](<a href=“http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/curric-10-11/28curelec10.html#pgfId-999975]B.S”>http://www.seasoasa.ucla.edu/curric-10-11/28curelec10.html#pgfId-999975)</p>
<p>Look online for the past class schedules to see if you could keep up with the junior/senior years while sticking in any frosh/soph courses you have not completed. This assumes you have finished the GEs via IGETC.</p>
<p>It didn’t slip your mind- I failed to tell you! My bad! Kind of an important bit of info 
I’ve been looking at that same curriculum, and I am realizing more and more how impossible it would be for me. There are a lot of classes that won’t articulate, because I have covered all of the material in the class, except for maybe one or two weeks’ worth.
The problem, as I am beginning to realize, lies in the fact that my CCC is on a semester system, while UCLA is on a quarter system. Because of this, a lot of my semester classes only count for one quarter class, even though we covered more material.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>My CS class only gets me out of one quarter of CS, even though we covered all of the material in that class, plus most of the material in the class after it. Switching from semester to quarter is a pain!</p>
<p>UCLA would have been great, but I’m really thinking that it’s not reasonable. But I’m quite alright with being a Bear, too!</p>
<p>Bruins are bears as well ;].</p>
<p>You can pretty much petition anything in the UC system – something most pessimistically deny. Call a counselor ASAP and show the course catalog descriptions (or even syllabus) to prove that the courses you want to transfer over have very little difference. As long as you can get a counselor to give you an OK, then you’re as free as a bird!</p>