3rd Year UC Dropout, retaking all ungrad @ CC, transfer to UC again with new Major

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<p>I'm starting my fourth year at UCR as a biology major, and my GPA has been terribly low - 2.0 to be exact. I've lost interest in biology, partly because of my poor performance, and I want to change my major to computer science.</p>

<p>I want to retake my undergraduate requirements for computer science at a community college, retaking classes that I've already taken at UCR. My goal is to show that I have a strong desire to pursue a computer science major, and that I have the aptitude to do so by getting a high GPA (3.8+) during a 2 year tenure at a CC.</p>

<p>Is this plan possible? Will I even be considered for admission at another UC despite my previous performance at UCR? Has anyone else done this before? Do you only get one shot to do well at an UC?</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t just ignore the credits you already have, and they would not accept you because you have taken too many credits.</p>

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<p>how many units did you accumulate at UCR?</p>

<p>read this:</p>

<p>What are the unit limitations or restrictions on admission for students who have attended a four-year institution before enrolling at a California community college? Do any majors or schools on your campus interpret this policy differently?</p>

<p>UCB: Each of the individual colleges and the Haas School of Business establishes its own unit limitation policies for students who have attended a four-year institution before enrolling at a community college:
College of Letters and Science: A student who has accumulated more than 80 transferable semester units from a four-year institution is considered to have excess units and will not be admitted. A student who has completed 80 or fewer UC-transferable semester units at a four-year university and then transfers to a community college will not accrue excess units and will be considered for admission.
Students who have only attended a community college will be granted subject credit, but not unit credit, for appropriate two-year college coursework taken in excess of the community college 70-unit limit; such subject credit may be used to satisfy/complete requirements.
College of Environmental Design: This college follows the same unit accumulation policy as the College of Letters and Science (see above), except that its limit on transferable coursework taken at a four-year university is 86 semester units.
Other colleges: UC Berkeley’s other colleges total both university units and a maximum of 70 community college UC-transferable units. The limits on combined transferable university and community college work are as follows:
• College of Chemistry: 80 semester units; applicants with more than 80 units require special approval.
• College of Engineering: 89 semester units.
• College of Natural Resources: 90 semester units. Though the College does not have a specific unit limitation, it carefully reviews applicants with 90 or more
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semester units to ensure that they can graduate within a reasonable time.
• Haas School of Business: No maximum limit.</p>

<p>UCD: Applications from students who have completed 80 or more transferable semester units (120 or more transferable quarter units) of combined baccalaureate institution and community college coursework are subject to review by the deans of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the College of Letters and Science and the College of Biological Sciences. Units earned through AP or IB examinations are counted separately for this purpose; AP and IB units do not put applicants at risk of being denied admission or of having an admissions decision delayed due to a dean’s review. Applicants subject to review will be admitted if a dean’s assessment is that the student is making good progress toward the baccalaureate degree and can complete the degree within the college’s maximum unit limit. All transfer applications to the College of Engineering undergo careful screening to assess the level of academic preparation for the major; the College of Engineering does not conduct a separate review of applicants who have 80 or more transferable semester units (120 or more transferable quarter units) of combined baccalaureate institution/community college work. Students who are well prepared for the majors will be admitted to the College of Engineering even if they exceed the 80/120-unit standard.</p>

<p>UCI: UC Irvine does not set a limit on the number of units an applicant may earn at a four-year institution before enrolling at a community college. It is important to note, however, that at least 36 of the final 45 quarter completed by a student for the bachelor’s degree must be earned in residence at the UCI campus.</p>

<p>UCLA: With the exception of the School of Nursing (postlicensure), UCLA generally considers a student who has accumulated more than 86 transferable semester units (130 transferable quarter units) at a university to have exceeded maximum units allowable for admission. Such a student will not be admitted. For the College of Letters and Science, a student who completed 86 or fewer UC-transferable semester units (130 or fewer transferable quarter units) at a university then transferred to, and remained exclusively at, a community college does not exceed the maximum units allowable for admission purposes.</p>

<p>UCM: A student who has accumulated more than 80 transferable semester units from a four-year institution is considered to have excess units and will not be admitted. A student who has completed 80 or fewer UC-transferable semester units at a four-year university and then transfers to a community college will not accrue excess units and will be considered for admission.
Students who have only attended a community college will be granted subject credit, but not unit credit, for appropriate two-year college coursework taken in excess of the community college 70-unit limit; such subject credit may be used to satisfy/complete requirements.</p>

<p>UCR: UC Riverside does not limit the number of units an applicant may earn at a four-year institution before enrolling at a community college. However, UC-eligible applicants who have attended a four-year institution and who present 80 or more semester (120 or more quarter) units in transfer credit will be reviewed by the dean of the college for completion of a specified pattern of courses that provides continuity with upper-division courses within the major. An applicant will be admitted if the dean’s office determines that the student can complete a baccalaureate degree within the maximum limit of 216 quarter units.</p>

<p>UCSD: UC San Diego considers a student with more than 90 transferable semester units (135 quarter units) from the combination of a two-year and a four-year institution to be in senior standing. UCSD sets a 90 semester unit limit when a student has attended both a two-year and a four-year institution. UCSD will transfer a maximum of 70 semester units from a</p>

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<p>thanks for the responses, especially jetforce. i’ve accrued 140 units, including AP. 116 regular, and 24 from AP. </p>

<p>I guess it’s too late for me, unless all UC’s count AP credit seperately.</p>

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<p>Actually, I think they might ignore AP credit (for your benefit). I know they will for graduating, so it’d be worth looking into for transferring.</p>

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<p>Bringing this question back from the dead. I’m sure the OP is long gone, but I could really benefit from some more insight on the subject.<br>
The key points I would like to know about are.
In his third year he had a 2.0 GPA. Based on courses all being the same number of units getting near a respectable GPA would take years of straight A’s. I think the best one can hope for is to achieve a high GPA from that point on. </p>

<p>The difference for me is that, I’m was attending a CSU (SDSU) and dropped out many years ago with about a 2 years worth of units, but the same low GPA. So there will be a great deal of time between when I was getting poor grades and what I do now. I hope this can be highlight that I made my mistakes and have learned from them in my search for admittance someplace. </p>

<p>I’m currently enrolled in a CC part time and plan to go to school full time eventually. I know from talking with the local CC’s I stand a good chance to be admitted into another CSU as long as I get good grades. I was wondering if I could be considered for admittance at a UC or other out of state schools of the same level on the basis of the work I do now rather than 12 years in the past when I made my mistakes.</p>

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<p>I don’t think you will have a problem getting into some of the CSUs. I applied to CSULB and CSUF with 22 units of a 2.0 before my CC and was accepted to both. Half of my friends go to CSUs and transferred in with a 2.0ish GPA as the BEST they could do. Some lower tier private schools will probably be more likely to ignore some of your past grades since they don’t have as many cut off requirements like state funded UCs.</p>

<p>You need to ask around at the various UCs and see if there is anyone who has transferred from SDSU and if there is any sort of unofficial articulation that you might be able to compare your classes to (in order to see what is UC transferable) since there isn’t an assist.org agreement. Generally speaking, intro classes (psych, soc, poly sci, etc) will be transferable as will basic classes across the board (amer. hist 1 & 2, language series, engl 1 & 2) and math is fairly straight forward as well (ie. Calc 1 and NOT business statistics for union farm workers). Science is tricky because of the sequences (gen chem 1&2 would transfer while bio not be as straightforward due to the class content breakdown).</p>

<p>Once you figure out approximately how many 4 yr UC transferable units you have, you need to add in all your CC UC transferable units (up to 70). </p>

<p>Next, take a look at JetForce’s post above this and see if you have too many credits to apply to certain UCs. As an informal example, I had 92 units and I was rejected from UCLA, UCSB, & UCSD because of the credit cap, waitlisted (then later accepted) at UCI because junior transfers (and TAG) take precedence over seniors despite the fact that I probably should’ve gotten in, and accepted to UCR and UCB (exceptional circumstances).</p>

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<p>why are you majoring in biology anyways?</p>

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<p>The OP was majoring in biology 2 years ago.</p>

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<p>killmyentourage, thanks for the reply. I I’m all set on the information I need on CSU schools for now… Except which I might like to attend if I go that route.<br>
I haven’t asked around here much, but it doesn’t seem to be much information on people who have transferred from CSU to UC let alone after dropping out with bad grades. I’m guessing because the UC’s probably don’t generally accept students that have had any signs of a poor track record. I think they like most of their students to have squeaky clean records. Which I can completely understand even if I don’t agree with it. I can say at this point I probably have not earned the right to attend the types of schools I would like to try to attend, but I’m a changed man and will do what I can to earn that. If it’s not good enough, then I’ll be fine with it and I’ll do the best I can at a CSU (which I don’t mean to insult or infer as inferior, I just know how HR departments like to categorize applicants.). I’ll see what that does for me. </p>

<p>UCkittychen, I’ll be (I am ) a CS major. I dropped out as such, have work experience as such and will graduate as such.</p>

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<p>I wonder if UCs care about the GPA one earns at a four-year university before transferring to a community college?</p>

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<p>Yes, they do care.</p>

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<p>You do realize that computer science is harder than biology right?</p>