<p>I actually did stay another year. I didn’t have my math done by Fall last year so I got rejected from UCLA Berkeley and UCSB. UCSB let me in on appeal but UCLA is my dream. My math was finished by spring so I just decided to hold off a year. It was a scary decision at first but the year goes by super quick. In less than a month I’ll find out if my plan payed off. Still hate UCSB though so I am glad I am not there regardless.</p>
<p>An extra year is nothing compared to a lifetime of wondering what could have been. You only live once, so why would just settle for second choice? If we’re talking 4< years without working then, yeah it may not be worth it but 3 years? Please. It’s normal to transfer after 3.</p>
<p>^are you sure that was the reason you got rejected? i thought they give you until your final spring semester to finish up any GEs or major prereqs, but i guess math is an exception?</p>
<p>Catfoodjar, it looks like I may have to do the same. Due to some pretty devastating family-related issues, my fall term GPA dropped to a 3.2 - and I didn’t complete my math course. I’m completing two math courses in the spring (and currently receiving As). Also, because I’m receiving As in both courses that I received Ds in, my gpa will end up being something like a 3.94 (UC)/4.0 (non-UC). In that case, I’m thinking that maybe I should just hold out another year and go for Cal or LA.</p>
<p>Being a one-year transfer, it doesn’t seem so bad to stick it out another year. I’d only be taking a few classes each semester, and my course load would be way easier… leaving time for things like <em>gasp</em> reading non-school related books and going out on the weekends.</p>
<p>On the other hand, maybe I’ll end up filing an appeal - if it gets approved for SD, I might just bid adieu to CC and go for it.</p>
<p>@thekevinhorton what about asians playing the piano outside in a random courtyard? Good enough?</p>
<p>I think waiting for your dream school is different if you are a little younger, like 18-19, than maybe someone who is 25-30. A year ultimately isn’t a lot, but when you aren’t going to be graduating until you’re 27 (my case), and plan on going to graduate school and getting married after your BA, a year pushes all of your life plans that much farther away. I’m just speaking from my experience since I started community college right before I turned 23. While I don’t want to settle for somewhere I am not too excited about going to, I can’t imagine putting off all of the other parts of my life just to go to UCLA.</p>
<p>Hi everyone quick question…</p>
<p>I am a ucsb to ccc student. I hope to transfer to UCI fall 2011. I had family circumstances, that I explained in the essay, which caused me to leave sb. I got an F in a math course, statistics for communications, due to my family issue. My ccc gpa is 3.94 in all transferable courses. My uc gpa was 2.94. I got into UCR for fall 2011 already. </p>
<p>I don’t think the math class was uc transferable. Do you guys think they calculated this into my grade? I never took another Math and still got accepted to UCR. How do you think UCI will view this? </p>
<p>Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>I love CC, cause i never thought I’d ever go to college in the first place, yet alone actually get good grades and transfer to a UC. I might stay another year if UCLA doesn’t take me. I’d have time to bring my 3.5 to a 3.7+! Another reason to stay: I’ve got a nice comfy job at my college as a math tutor and at the front desk for student services. And if I do stay, i’ll be more than preoccupied taking the other lit courses at my college, and finishing up the all the math courses like stats and differential equations.</p>
<p>If you still have prereqs and lower division classes to fulfill, my question is why pay so much money just to a class at a 4 year when you can take the same exact class at a CC?</p>
<p>Also, CCs offer smaller class sizes; think about your classroom with 50 students and how the proffessor actually knew who you were vs at a UC where there will be over 200 students in a class and instead of being called by name, you’ll just be assigned a number.</p>
<p>For me I’m already a 3rd year community college. Let’s just say I’m glad I made the decision. It wasn’t the fact that I improve my application resume (actually it wasn’t that much I just managed to bring 2.7- 2.9 GPA 
) but more of a life changing event to me. I decided to join student government at my community college and it was one of my best decision ever. I learned how to be a leader and lead people by example. I get to work on my public speaking skill, work with the school board about event and freedom of speech, and chair community college biggest event. There’s lots of things going on that I never heard of and its a pity that most student never really set their mind and actually try to participate some event we’re trying to host. Nevertheless, I would say it was a wash for me staying an extra year, I didn’t really build my resume because of my GPA, but at least I gain a life lesson skills I could need in the future. I already complete my major prerequiste and IGETC and now I have to wait for my fate. </p>
<p>Now as of I’m becoming a little wiser, it doesn’t matter if I didn’t reach my dream school, just as long you have a dream job. It’s you what make upon your opportunity, not the school so little advice here: if you really want to go to the college of your dream, go ahead stay another year, but if you want to move on with your life and stay within track of your dream job, I say transfer and try to make the most of your opportunities.</p>
<p>I’ve been at my CC for what seems like an eternity (4 years!) but if I was rejected from the schools I applied to, I’d probably just keep trying. What else can you do?</p>
<p>NO WAY! After my brother screwed up things for me with my parents by spending 6 years at CC, I made a vow to get out in 2 years. Lo and behold, here I am today with my one UCR acceptance still waiting to hear from the other schools but chances look pretty descent that I’ll get in iA. I had to work my but off hard though with little direction or goals in mind. Just 2 months ago, I FINALLY decided I wanted to be a doctor, and this was after I had already applied to all the UC’s for 5 different majors. I would definitely just go to UCR though if I get rejected from the rest because I know I worked quite hard to get to this point. You try taking Engineering Physics 1, Calculus 3, Linear Algebra, and Psychology in a single semester in 2 different colleges in 2 separate cities and still come out with a 3.5 gpa that semester. All of that would go to vain :(</p>
<p>^ Dude story of my life. Not about the career goal, def Engineering but taking General Chem II, Calc 3 (already took differentials), Physics 2 (Electricity and Magnetism), French and English 101. My physics and english class are in 2 diff colleges in 2 diff cities and the thing is my physics is from 6pm - 8:50pm at one college and Calc III from 8pm - 10pm in another. So its always cut physics early and rush to other class late. On lab days, I am usually an hour late. My math teacher is very understanding but its pretty hectic getting all the stuff i miss and also waste my gas money going from one college to another than back to the first one I don’t wanna be rejected and have to do this [bleep] again</p>
<p>@ walleats
Thats pretty much my exact schedule this semester lol.</p>
<p>You guys with hectic schedules should take it easy. I don’t think its worth the rush. I’ve taken 21 units these past two semesters and 12-15 during intersessions and its made me miserable. Even if I end up with close to a 4.0 this semester, it won’t be worth it.</p>
<p>The rest of my life has suffered. Man, I used to have time to cook. I used to have other fulfilling aspects of my life. I used to draw and make mixtapes and update my blog and play piano and browse leisurely through used record stores. I used to take long hikes through the canyons behind my house and read books in the trees there. I literally do none of that anymore. It wasn’t worth it. Life is about balance - molecularly avoiding equilibrium while psychically embracing it. I think I’ve become unbalanced in a sense - all school and nothing else. It makes me kind of sad when I think about how many sunny days I’ve given up to stay in and study. I almost hope that it keeps raining so that the rest of this city will feel as miserable as I do when I do calc homework.</p>
<p>^Jeez, somebody sounds like Aristotle right now ;-)</p>
<p>Lol, yeah. I tend to wax poetic about everything. I’m prone to hyperbole and melodramatics, which is unusual for an applied science major - maybe I should consider majoring in lit, with an emphasis on gothic romances.</p>
<p>asphyxiac, </p>
<p>I think it’s important to major in something that will help them get a job and to major/minor in something they are passionate about.</p>