<p>My friend asked me that question the other day. "Are you willing to stay another year at community college if you don't get into Cal this year?" </p>
<p>Immediately, I thought "no way!" But I'm posing this question to you guys: Would you be willing to stay another year at CC to get into your top choice UC? </p>
<p>I know there are people on these forums who've done so and fortunately got into their top choice the 2nd time applying. </p>
<p>As much as I'd love to go to Cal and have been wanting to go there since high school, I probably won't prolong my stay at CC because I was denied (although I am hoping for the best come April 29th :D )</p>
<p>Just wanted to hear what you all thought about doing this.</p>
<p>I agree w/you. Getting into my first choice would DEFINITELY be icing on the cake (also happens to be Cal), but even if I don’t get in, I want to move on from CC and complete my bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>If you don’t get in this year what makes you think you’ll get in next year? Transferring is getting harder and harder every year. Sounds like a huge gamble to me. I wouldn’t do unless if I only got into UCR or something.</p>
<p>I think i won’t stay for another year.As of now,I got in at UCSC(definitely not my number one choice) but I still got 4 more decisions to wait for.Anyhow, I have been here at a CC for three years now,going semester after semester since I graduated from high school(2008).I am feeling burning out and don’t feel as much in the competitive mood as I was when I was 17(I started CC the summer after I graduated).I aspired to go to UCLA(my definitely dream school!!!) but because I didn’t know how the transferring worked, my grades drop.Along the way,I lost hope for college,just aiming to get C’s in classes so I could just pass.Heck,I was close to being a cop.But due economic reasons,some inspiration from those at CC,and kind of to prove an ex-gf that I can transfer out(I had issues with her and long story short,she didn’t get in at a UC school and now goes to a Midwest univeristy and so I’m sort of want to show off that I could get in at her rejected UC school),I am relieved that for now I’m in at a UC,even it’s UCSC(I got in at Cal State LA last year).I will take UCSC if I don’t get in at other UC’s since I’m a pre-med/pharm major,so I will still work hard doing research and any extra curricular work that could get me in at UCLA med school.</p>
<p>Yet,while this is my opinion, I say if you want Cal go for it.One of the things I learned from those who inspired me is to do what you really want because college,and even you’re youth, are only lived once.You don;t want to wake up one night in your mid-40’s thinking to yourself,"what if I went to Cal?"And so for me,I will take UCSC even if it’s not exactly my choice but because it’s next to a beach(I live in the San Gabriel Valley),I will know for a fact I’m going a new chance to learn at a different environment.</p>
<p>Good Luck on you’re UC decisions,and if you get in at Cal. :)</p>
<p>I think it depends on how long you have been at the CC and other circumstances.</p>
<p>For example, my situation is that for Haas at Cal. I applied to the school this past fall (2010) but according to new CC and UC/CSU agreements, IGETC/Breadth Courses/GEs will be limited and basically unnecessary to transfer. I was in a pickle last spring when i found this out, do i step up and complete all my GEs and Prerequisites in 2 years or wait for 3 years and not do my GEs and apply. So i did the former and took two 20 unit semesters and 15 unit summer last year. Now if i don’t get it, I will wait at my CC because not only do I have a better chance of getting in next year, I am still only a 2 year applicant so by then I will be a 3 year applicant. It just all depends, to me, i think i can wade it out another 2 low unit semesters and reapply then just go to some second tier undergrad b-school. </p>
<p>1) I’m already sort of fed up with this place. It’s really boring and I just don’t like it. I feel like I need to move on.</p>
<p>2) So far, I’ve gotten into UCSB. That is good enough for me. As someone mentioned, next year it’s going to be even harder to get in. Hopefully I will get some more decisions and I can make a choice, but if I get in nowhere else at least I have SB.</p>
<p>in addition to all my personal reason my community college is going to **** as it is. it’s impossible, not joking, to get classes, they just cut summer for the first time, and theres horrible political problems. </p>
<p>Been there done that…didnt work. This is my fourth year at CC!!!. Im going to a UC next fall…no questions. Which one I go to is still frighteningly up in the air.</p>
<p>@rshie
my cc has those issues. we were on some bay area news channel a couple of months ago because our chancellor used A LOT of the school’s money for her vacation.</p>
<p>and summer classes got cut last year. we didn’t even have winter session last year. i heard summer classes are going to be cut (yet again) in half this year.</p>
<p>honestly, yes. we only go to college once (well, undergrad anyway), so you might as well go to the one you want. i think i would stay another year to get into Cal, but it’s not an easy decision because there’s always the chance you might not get in next year either.</p>
<p>I think I might hang back another year and take two very slow, easy semesters. Take my physics courses and linear algebra and maybe a couple of programming classes. I’ve only been here for a year and it’s been super hectic. I’d like to have time to, like, read a book or go to the gym or something. Or work on some side projects (websites, programs, whatever). Do some summer research instead of being stuck in a classroom.</p>
<p>To me it’s a gamble, but as long as I have TAG for a non-impacted major and the appropriate GPA I would stay a fourth year (huge bummer), but I’m waiting on my decision.</p>
<p>I might have to stay because of residency. And if that’s the case I won’t be bummed. If I don’t get into LA tho I don’t mind settling at all! I never expected to go to college at all. So I’m happy wherever!</p>
<p>I did. Anyone who was here last year knows my story, but I got into UCI last year but missed out on UCSD due to a technicality. I’d wanted to UCSD since freshman year of HS, which was in 2001. </p>
<p>So I went to UCI for one quarter, dropped out, then went back to my CC and reapplied as an eligible TAG student to UCSD this year. Just got accepted this past week.</p>
<p>^ i got into UCI last year too, but decided to give it a go another year for the top tier UC’s. We’ll see if it pays off. If not, whatever; no big deal. I’ve met plenty of new people this year and am pretty happy where I am right now.</p>