<p>Hi folks, I'm a 4th year community college student and was hoping to transfer next year. I had applied for Fall 2014, but was rejected from pretty much every single school I applied to – CSULB, UCB, UCLA, USC.
My main question is whether or not I should apply for anthropology or sociology, but let me give a little bit of background information.</p>
<p>I currently have a 3.9-ish GPA and 74 units completed. The highest math I completed was statistics (and I did receive a B—is that bad for sociology?). I do somewhat wonder if I was rejected from every school because of my courses perhaps being seen as “too easy”. USC had sent me a spring grade request, but rejected me very soon afterwards (was it also because of the B in stats?). I hadn’t completed IGETC when I applied to UCLA as a linguistics major (I was missing a lab, physical science, and a second language course; maybe this was also a strong negative?). I did dabble in computer programming courses (3 semesters of C++ and two of Java) and a lot of students at the community college I attend dropped those courses like flies, so I was hoping that maybe that would show that I took somewhat challenging classes; but then again, I keep thinking about how I don’t have a calculus course under my belt. Finally, I think my time at community college may have also been a weakness. My first year there, I only took a whopping total of 3 classes for grand total of 7 semester units, so I don’t really like to count my first year, but it’s still there and can’t be ignored. Once I started going full-time, I really cranked up the amount of classes (in Spring 2014 for instance, I had the silly idea of going for 24 units to try and impress UCLA and that messed up my GPA just as the counselor who signed my request to take so many units had warned me).</p>
<p>Anyway, back to the actual question. I have taken the intro to sociology course, but would I need more sociology courses to be considered? For the anthropology-side of things, I’ve taken an introductory anthropology course and am currently taking an anthropology lab course and a course in linguistic anthropology and was considering if I should take a sociocultural anthropology and archaeology in the spring semester, but I don’t know if UCLA would look down on the fact that I’m taking two major-required courses in the spring.</p>
<p>Thank you for any help and I can provide more information if needed.</p>
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Given that all the linguistic majors except “Linguistics and Computer Science” require a 2nd year of a language (and it doesn’t sound like you applied for that one), not meeting the stated requirements for the major made their decision an easy one.
I tried looking for the xfer requirements using a search engine. For each major, sociology and anthropology, it was the 1st hit returned. </p>
<p>I was just accepted to UCLA as a sociology major. They’re only three prerequisites listed-and one of them is not available at most CCs. Since you’ve already received a B in statistics, there’s not much you can do about that. I would recommend taking an additional sociology class or 2, and acing it just to show them that you have serious interest and can excel in the subject matter. </p>
<p>My GPA wasn’t super high but I did have a strong upward trend. And I did have all A’s in my 3 sociology classes as well as statistics. I was missing one prerequisite which was the research course, because it wasn’t offered at my school or any school near me. Most transfer students haven’t taken the course, so it wouldn’t be held against you. Conversely if you were able to find the course and ace the course, it may really help you out.</p>
<p>I actually did apply for linguistics and computer science and while I did have the programming courses and symbolic logic, I only had 1 semester of Spanish and no high-level math, so I assume that’s also why they were so eager to reject me :-S </p>
<p>Its not that they “were eager to reject” you, you didn’t meet the standards they have for admission. The UCs don’t do it to be mean, they do it so that you have a good foundation for University-level work, and can still graduate in a reasonable amount of time.</p>
<p>Triple check assist.org for required classes, recommended classes, and other information. That is the standard that EVERYONE has to meet when they apply.</p>
<p>@2016Candles The only thing that really concerns me is that UCLA’s website says that sociology is highly-impacted and I just have a B in stats; any additional sociology courses I take would be in the spring. My school does actually have a course that matches up with the research one according to assist, but like I said, it would be in the spring. I’m just unsure of which route to go.</p>
<p>With your current GPA, and if you did/ will complete IGETC, I think you’ll have a good shot. The major is highly impacted, which makes it tougher but not impossible. Your gpa is strong. </p>