Hey everyone! I’m a 2nd year Coms major at CP SLO and absolutely hate the atmosphere, academics, etc. at poly and believe that I’d do better at a UC. I’m mostly looking at Davis and Santa Cruz. What’re my chances of getting in? I have a lot of AP units that put me over the 90 unit limit, but do AP credits count for that?
Why do you dislike SLO?
It’s geared toward getting you a degree and a job after college which is great, but not for me. I was hoping for a college experience that would allow me to grow as a person and I haven’t found many extracurriculars or classes here that have allowed me to do that. There is little diversity here and the heartbeat of this campus is Greek life, which is something I’m not interested in. Although there is a cultural center, it isn’t quite as active as I’d like it to be. I’d like to become more involved at my campus, but have found little that interests me here that is also active.
If you’re a sophomore that would mean, in theory, you should be applying this November (in a few days) for next fall.
UCLA and Davis have Communications. I assume you have some GE courses completed. Go to assist.org and choose any CCC. Then choose the UC and major and make sure those requirements are completed by end of spring. Some majors don’t have a lot of requirements so check around on assist and you could slide in that way, if need be.
Make sure you have two English composition courses and a quantitative reasoning course. Your AP may cover some of these and other GE. They won’t use AP for major req. I might suggest if you have a 5 AP score in English you still take one English comp course to be on the safe side.
You have all of Nov to apply.
Let’s assume you are at a different CSU…and want to transfer to UC. Is it better to transfer to a CCC for this upcoming Spring semester so you are essentially coming out of a CCC which has the highest number of successful transfers to the UC’s. Is there an advantage to this? Or stay at the CSU through the end of the year? Or does it matter since the application which is due in two weeks shows you are currently a CSU student?
This is a great question, and if that’s possible, I might take advantage of that. Anyone know how that would work? I’ve already missed TAG is the thing, so it wouldn’t be guaranteed.
In order to get CCC priority consideration you need 30 semester units from the CCC, which you will not get with one semester.
Assuming you have a good GPA and complete the requirements for the major as best you can by checking assist and matching your courses with those req from a CCC, you have an OK chance of transferring successfully from a CSU.