<p>I am a first year at UC Berkeley with sophomore standing.</p>
<p>Since most people applying to be junior transfers to UCs are filling in their applications during their sophomore year of community college/other college, I was wondering if I could apply as a junior transfer to a different UC (such as UCLA, UCSD, etc) even though I'm a first year because I am currently at sophomore standing. Or does sophomore standing not matter and I have to actually be in my second year of college in order to apply?</p>
<p>The idea is that you should transfer (actually transfer, not apply) when you have 60+ transferable credits. So, if you have sophomore standing, now-ish would be a good time to apply.</p>
Units are all that matter. Whether it takes 1 year or 10 to get enough units to be considered a junior, that’s all the UCs care about in terms of class standing.</p>
<p>Check all the conditions carefully at the campuses you are considering. Some have requirements that need to be completed by fall semester. Also sophomore standing is not really relevant. What they care about is that you hit the magic junior number of units by the end of spring semester this year.</p>
<p>I assume the reason you have sophomore standing is because you have a lot of AP units. I know that for someone entering UC as a frosh that if your class standing is advanced because of AP credit, they subtract off those units in determining the deadlines for declaring a major and graduating. Since you are already a UC student but plan to transfer I don’t know what rules apply but its worth looking into (unless you’re just trying to get thru as quick as possible).</p>