I am going to be a pre-nursing student at a private christian school this fall. I plan on transferring to ucla and it said that the program is 3 years there and for fall 2018 the application is open around november of this year. What will they be looking at? My high school gpa/sat scores matter too right? That’s around the end of my first semester, so will they just look at my current grades at that time? need your advices!
UCLA accepts Junior level transfers so your HS grades/GPA and SAT scores do not count. Expect to spend 2 years at your private Christian university before you can transfer.
Here is what is required for transfer for UCLA Nursing:::
Admission Requirements::
-90 to 105 quarter units (60 to 70 semester units) of transferable coursework
-a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.5 in all transferable courses
-Applicants must fulfill the university’s American History and Institutions requirement.
-Applicants from a California community college must fulfill IGETC certification upon entrance. Others transfer students must complete the School of Nursing’s general education requirements.
-completion of prerequisite courses (listed below) with grades of C or better
Course Requirements:
-one year of general biology for the major (cellular and molecular)
-one year of general chemistry for the major
-one semester of organic chemistry for the major
-human anatomy with lab
-human physiology with lab
Strongly recommended:
-introductory or general microbiology
-introductory psychology
-introduction to communication studies or speech
-one course in calculus for life science or with analytic geometry
You need to apply at Junior level with either 90 quarter units or 60 semester units and as a prospective nursing studnet, you need to be prepared:
Nursing is very competitive and, coming from a private school, will place you at a lower priority for admission. Priority goes in this order, more or less: CC, UC to UC, Cal States, private uni’s.
Are you in-state?
Thank you so much for all the info! I will be done with my prereqs after one year. After that, I start applying for their actual bsn program. That’s how it’s going to be in my university. It says that UCLA’s transfer bsn program is 3 years. Does that mean that if i spend 2 years in my university, it will be another 3 years in ucla? or will that possibly become 2 years instead? In my uni, i am in the 4 year bsn track. (1 year is pre-nursing)
In my university, some students start taking their nclex and become RNs before getting their bachelor’s. Will I be able to do that too in ucla (if ever accepted?)
It really depends on the coursework that UCLA will accept from your college.
You can’t assume that you will be admitted, so you need to continue at your private university, assuming that you will not get in.
Priority goes to California CC students.
Are you a state resident?
Why transfer from your current university to UCLA? I would assume since you are already in the 4 year BSN track at your current University and you would be finished in 4 years there, what would be the point of transferring and spending another year for the same BSN degree?
OP not only do you have to take the Nursing pre-req courses for UCLA, you also have to the General Education requirements for transfer. How can you take all these in one year?
These are GE requirements for UCLA transfer:
**Completion of the following course requirements by spring prior to transfer:
-Two transferable courses in English composition/critical thinking and writing.
-One transferable math course that has a prerequisite of intermediate algebra or higher.
-Four transferable college courses in at least two of the following subject areas: arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, physical and biological sciences.
I am already assuming that I won’t get in. That’s exactly the reason why I’m in this private university. It’s a safety school, though I still would have to try hard as only 80 students out of 300 get in. It’s christian and very expensive. I figure I can work harder to go somewhere else better paying less, but if I go here for 2 years then another 3 years in ucla. I guess that will be just as costly as staying in this uni. I like having other options. I am a California resident.
This semester I was recommended to take
Communication Studies
Composition
Microbiology
Anatomy & Physiology
Fundamentals of Chemistry
For 2016, UCLA accepted 10 Nursing transfers from 183 applicants (5% acceptance rate). Your odds are better at your current school. There are many other Nursing schools in California that accept Nursing transfers: UCI and the following Cal states:
Bachelor of Science, Nursing
Bakersfield
Dominguez Hills
East Bay
Fresno
Fullerton
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Northridge
Sacramento
San Bernardino
San Diego
So you’re at an expensive school and the odds are less than 1-in-3 that you get into their nursing program. Given you are last on the priority list a xfer to UCLA may happen but is probably not in the cards either.
There is an alternative plan you should consider. Instead of a 4-year program at one school you could get an RN at a community college (an ADN degree) and then go to one of the RN->BSN programs. With an RN you have a marketable skill that you can upgrade; with 2 years at your current school if you don’t get into the nursing program you do not.
If you start down this alternate path took for a good NCLEX pass rate at the CC. I know nurses that have done this, RN->BSN programs tend to be easier to get into. See http://www.rn.ca.gov/education/rntobsn.shtml for a list. Many are part-time and/or online, but some are campus based. Fullerton, for example, offers both online and on-campus
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